- Great American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Monroe J. Rathbone
Standard Oil of New Jersey
1960 - 1965
Utilities & Energy
| Military Service | Army |
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b. 1900
| Education |  |
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| Undergraduate | Lehigh University |
| Personal | |
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| Born-Died | 1900 - 1976 |
| Birthplace | West Virginia (WV) |
| Race | White |
| Father | Executive, Low-/Mid-Level |
As CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Rathbone is credited for making Jersey Standard into an international company. Seeing problems with an ever increasing dependence on oil from the Middle East, Rathbone had the foresight to push his company to search for alternative oil resources years before the first oil embargo.