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Glenn Herbert McCarthy (December 25, 1907 – December 26, 1988) was an American oil tycoon. The media often referred to him as "Diamond Glenn" and "The King of the Wildcatters ". McCarthy was an oil prospector and entrepreneur who owned many businesses in various sectors of the economy.
Apr 1, 1995 · Glenn McCarthy, oilman, was born in Beaumont, Texas, on Christmas day, 1907. He began working as a waterboy at age eight in the oilfields where his father worked, for a wage of fifty cents a day. He and his family lived for a short while in Houston and for several years in Port Arthur.
Texas independent oil producer who “rocketed into the national imagination in the late 1940s.” As giant oilfield discoveries created Texas millionaires after World War II, people started calling “Diamond Glenn” McCarthy the reigning King of the Wildcatters.
Dec 28, 1988 · Glenn McCarthy, whose flamboyant career helped define the Texas oilman to the world, died Monday at a Houston nursing home. He had turned 81 on Sunday.
Sep 16, 2008 · The Shamrock’s biggest star, McCarthy sensed, had to be Glenn McCarthy himself. If he was to be King of Texas, he needed to assume the role. The first step was to dress the part.
Dec 12, 2016 · When the city's country club turned up its nose, Glenn McCarthy simply built his own hotel, so big and ostentatious that some called it Houston's Versailles.
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The Wildcatter’s Wildcatter. Glenn McCarthy is the stuff of which legends are made. By Lynn Ashby. November 1974 0. McCarthy in 1956 with a wildcatter’s favorite Christmas present: an oil...
