T. Boone Pickens

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One of America's foremost oil and gas entrepreneurs, T. Boone Pickens chairs the BP Capital Management Hedge Fund. He is one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth in the billions. He became well known for his successful business takeover tactics in the 1980s.
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T. Boone Pickens was born on May 22, 1928, and graduated from Oklahoma State University with a geology degree in 1951. He founded the BP management fund in 1997, and runs two hedge funds: Capital Commodity and Capital Equity, both of which invest primarily in oil and gas. He was a major financial support of President George W. Bush.

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