uc regents who owned, or were key executives at oil corporations
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Fifteen past members of the University of California's Board of Regents were key executives or owners of oil companies. Some companies were very large predecessors of today's oil majors, while others were obscure small oil producers.The two most influential Regent oilmen were Edwin Pauley and Samuel Mosher. Pauley owned multiple oil companies and became one of the wealthiest men in America before World War II. Pauley was a reactionary conservative who supported Ronald Reagan's rise to the office of Governor and later President of the United States.Mosher founded the Signal Oil Company and became very wealthy in the mid-20th Century. Mosher was key in founding UC Santa Barbara.TRANSCRIPT
Oil Company Owners and Executives to Sit on UC Board of Regents(Information culled from http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/general_history/overview/regents/biographies_a.html)
1. Alden Anderson, UC Regent from 1899-1932: Director Associated Oil Company, Tide Water Associated Oil Co.
2. Thomas Robert Bard, UC Regent from 1907-1911: First president of the Union Oil Co. ofCalifornia.
3. Wigginton Ellis Creed, UC Regent from 1918-1920: Associated Oil Company.
4. Hershel Carnahan UC Regent from 1928-1931: Appointed Co-Receiver of Julian Petroleum Corporation 1927.
5. Ralph Talcott Fisher, UC Regent from 1936-1938: Assistant Treasurer Union Oil Co.
6. Edwin Louis Harbach, UC Regent from 1955-1956: Director, National Oil Co.; Atlas Royalties Co.,
7. Samuel Moody Haskins, UC Regent from 1930-1932: Director, Union Oil Company of California.
8. Fred Moyer Jordan, UC Regent from 1937-1954: Director Richfield Oil Corp.
9. David J. McDaniel, UC Regent 1974: Attorney of the Associated Oil Co.
10. Samuel B. Mosher, UC Regent from 1956-1972: Founder, chairman, CEO, Signal Oil and Gas Co., Director, Petroleum Industry War Council during World War II; Director of the American Petroleum Institute.
11. John Francis Neylan, UC Regent from 1928-1955: Los Flores Land and Oil Co. Trustee.
12. Edwin W. Pauley, UC Regent from 1940-1970: Chairman of the board, Pauley Petroleum, Inc.; independent oil producer and real estate developer; Director Interstate Oil and Compact Commission; Petroleum coordinator for war in Europe on petroleum lend-lease supplies for Russia and England.
13. William Stark Rosecrans, UC Regent from 1884-1885: Organized Preston Coal Oil Co.
14. Albert Joseph Wallace, UC Regent from 1911-1915: Director of the Kendon Petroleum Co.
15. William A. Wilson, UC Regent from 1972-1988: President, Web Wilson Oil Tools, Inc.