Herman Brown

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Herman Brown (born November 10, 1892 in Belton Texas - † November 15, 1962 ) was one of the founders of Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.

Life

His parents were Lucy Wilson King and Riney Louis Brown. Brown maintained Longlea's 844 acre hunting estate in Boston about 60 kilometers from Washington, DC

After studying at the University of Texas , he was employed in 1911 by a contractor , general contractor for a state road construction contract, in Belton. From the bankruptcy estate of this contractor, Brown received 18 mules in 1914 for outstanding wages. These formed the capital for his further independent, entrepreneurial activities.

In 1919 his brother-in-law, Dan Root, took a capital stake in this company, appropriately named Brown and Root, Incorporated . Dan Root, a wealthy central Texas cotton farmer, died in 1929.

In 1922, Herman's younger brother, civil engineer George Rufus Brown, joined the company. The company Brown & Root was a contractor for public works such as road paving and steel bridges for community - and Countyverwaltungen .

Brown was an opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal . Edward Aubrey Clark arranged a meeting for Brown and Lyndon B. Johnson at which Brown complained about the cost of the New Deal projects. According to Robert A. Caro , Johnson said to Brown, “What are you worried about? It's not coming out of your pocket. Any money that's spent down here on New Deal projects, the East is paying for. "

In 1936, Brown & Root was commissioned to build the Marshall Ford Dam on the Colorado River in Texas for $ 27 million . In a letter to Lyndon B. Johnson, George Brown admitted that B&R made $ 2 million in profit on the contract. Herman Brown became a major contributor to Lyndon B. Johnson.

In 1940, Brown & Root received their first US government order for $ 90 million for Corpus Christi Naval Air Station .

Brown Shipbuilding Company

In 1942 the Brown brothers founded the Brown Shipbuilding Company . The shipbuilding novice produced more than 350 ships for the United States Navy for USD 357 million . The shipyard employed 25,000 people and received the Army-Navy Excellence Award for its war production and was mentioned by F. Roosevelt.

Texas Eastern Transmission Company

After the Second World War, the Brown brothers and other companies supplied small and large-inch pipeline pipes to the US government for USD 143 million and founded the Texas Eastern Transmission Company for this government contract , which was called the Panhandle Eastern Corporation between 1959 and 1993 .

Edificio Artigas

In 1950 , Brown & Root built Edificio Artigas , an apartment block based on a design by Carlos Ott, on the corner of 487 Rincón and 33rd Street in Montevideo . The US consulate was housed in this for years.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Brown & Root established numerous US Air Force and US Navy bases in Spain, France and Guam . As well as numerous roads, dams, bridges, refineries and drilling platforms for the US governments .

In 1961 the company was commissioned to design the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center for $ 200 million .

Under the Jonson government, B&R was part of a consortium that built runways, bridges and other military objects in Vietnam for USD 1.6 billion.

B&R was also involved in the Mohole project, which was used to puncture the earth's crust.

Herman Brown was a co-founder of the Brown Foundation . Herman Brown has served on the boards of First National City Bank in Houston, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation , Southwestern University , Armco Steel Corporation , and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. He was also involved in oil and gas prospecting and cattle breeding.

Herman Brown was buried in Glenwood Cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times , Nov. 21, 1982, UP FROM TEXAS
  2. ↑ The New York Times , February 1, 1987, TV VIEW; 'LBJ' - A POWERFUL PORTRAIT
  3. ↑ Texas State Historical Association , http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbr86
  4. ↑ The New York Times , March 30, 2003, The Nation: Friends in Deed; In the Company of Vice Presidents, A Big Texas Contractor Prospered
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Belton Texas
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1962