Edmundson Parkes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdmundson Parkes
American businessman
Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1904
Place of Birth: Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 20-Apr-1997
Profession: businessperson
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Edmundson Parkes
- Edmundson Parkes was President and CEO of United Gas Corporation, a major oil company from its inception in 1930 to its hostile takeover and subsequent forced merger with Pennzoil in 1968.
- He was one of the lone holdovers when Pennzoil convened a new board of directors to manage the company and its subsidiaries.Parkes was born in 1904 in Jefferson County, Alabama to Major William J.
- Parkes and Elmira Melissa Huey.
- Parkes' father was a former Commandant of the University of Alabama and Captain in the Alabama State Militia who raised a troop to fight for Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish–American War.
- Parkes was named for his grandmother, Mary Edmundson, herself a granddaughter of George A.
- Wilson, a former Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee Freemasons. Parkes graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1925.
- He worked his way through the ranks of the United Gas Corporation, starting with what would become a company subsidiary in 1928.
- After several promotions, he was named President of United Gas Pipeline Company and Union Producing Company.
- He was named President and CEO of the parent corporation, United Gas, in 1958.
- He was a Past President of the American Gas Association, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Natural Gas Reserves of A.G.A.
- He was also active in a number of professional and civic organizations.He married Julia Washburn of Monroe, Louisiana and had two daughters, Myra and Ruth, of Shreveport.
- The former married Dr.
- Paul Winder, also of Shreveport, and had issue.
- Parkes' wife was a direct descendant of Myles Standish, as was the wife of Parkes' rival and Pennzoil founder, George H.W.
- Bush.
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