- Great American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Frank Phillips
Phillips Petroleum Company
1917 - 1938
Utilities & Energy
| Military Service | Air Force |
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b. 1873
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| Born-Died | 1873 - 1950 |
| Birthplace | Nebraska (NE) |
| Race | White |
| Father | Farmer / Rancher |
With his brother Lee, Frank Phillips built Phillips Petroleum into a diversified oil company whose businesses encompassed not only crude oil drilling, but also the operation of consumer filling stations and the production of such innovative oil industry equipment as the alkylation reactor.