Name
Ray Lee Hunt
Ray Lee Hunt
Dallas, Texas
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Southern Methodist University
United States
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oil, real estate
$4,700,000,000
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#394 Billionaires 2019
#127 Forbes 400 2018
Ray Lee Hunt is the wealthiest of legendary oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt's 15 children.He chairs Hunt Consolidated, an oil and gas, electric power, real estate and investing conglomerate.His Hunt Oil is one of the largest privately-held oil companies in the U.S.Hunt Oil was one of the first to land an exploration deal in Iraq's Kurdish region post-Saddam Hussein.His son, Hunter Hunt, serves as co-CEO of Hunt Consolidated and is his heir apparent.
His half-brothers, W. Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt (d. 2014), once tried to corner the silver market.His father is said to have been a major inspiration for the J.R. Ewing character on the TV show "Dallas."
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