Clint Murchison, Sr.
Powerful Texas oilman who cultivated relationships with Hoover, Nixon, and Johnson, with business dealings intersecting organized crime figures including the Genovese Crime Family.
Clint Murchison, Sr. was a powerful Texas oilman and a significant political figure, described as being cut from the same cloth as H.L. Hunt. He was the father of Clint W. Murchison, Jr., a director of FIDCO. Murchison, Sr. was a key organizer of pro-MacArthur forces in Texas and an ardent supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade.1
Murchison, Sr. cultivated relationships with influential figures across the political spectrum, including J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson. The Murchison family's rise to power was closely tied to their connections in Texas oil. He was known for his hospitality, often hosting J. Edgar Hoover at his exclusive Hotel Del Charro in La Jolla, California, and covering Hoover's expenses, which amounted to approximately $19,000 in free vacations between 1953 and 1959.1
His business dealings also intersected with organized crime. Nearly 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma was owned by Gerardo Catena, a chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family. Furthermore, the Murchison family's affairs were tightly interwoven with the scandal surrounding Bobby Baker, a close associate of Lyndon Johnson, which involved numerous questionable deals with organized crime figures in Las Vegas, Chicago, Louisiana, and the Caribbean.1
Sources
- Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩
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