Benjamin Brewster Jennings (June 9, 1898 – October 2, 1968) was a founder and president of the Socony-Vacuum company, which became, in 1955, the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), which would later become Mobil Oil , and then merged to become part of ExxonMobil .
18-605: B. B. Jennings was born to Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) and Mary Dows Brewster in New York City. Both his paternal grandfather, Oliver Burr Jennings (1825–1893), and his maternal grandfather, Benjamin Brewster (1828–1897) after whom he was named, were involved with Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller and had become his partners in running the Standard Oil Trust . Both men had gone west in
36-545: A forty-room French Renaissance style home called the Mailands in Fairfield, Connecticut . The building later became part of the campus of Fairfield University and was renamed McAuliffe Hall. Jennings also owned a mansion on East 72nd Street in New York City, which is now known as Oliver Gould Jennings House . He died on October 13, 1936. His funeral was held at St. James Episcopal Church in Fairfield, Connecticut , with
54-592: A forty-room French Renaissance style home called the Mailands. The building later became part of the campus of Fairfield University and was renamed McAuliffe Hall. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire . During World War I he served in the United States Navy as an ensign on a submarine chaser and was awarded the Navy Cross . In 1920, he graduated from Yale University , where he
72-531: A philanthropist, a philanthropist. Walter Jennings , Helen Goodsell Jennings (wife of Dr. Walter Belknap James), and Emma Brewster Jennings, wife of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr. His maternal aunt, Almira Geraldine Goodsell, was the wife of Standard Oil co-founder William A. Rockefeller, Jr. Through his sister Emma, he was the uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss , whose third wife was Janet Lee Bouvier , mother of First Lady Jackie Kennedy . Jennings attended Phillips Andover , graduated from Yale University ,
90-704: A short illness. He was 70 years old and lived in Glen Head, New York . Oliver Gould Jennings Oliver Gould Jennings (April 27, 1865 – October 13, 1936) was an American financier and an heir to a fortune from Standard Oil who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives . Jennings was born on April 27, 1865, in New York City . He was the youngest son of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825–1893) and Esther Judson ( née Goodsell) Jennings (1828–1908). His older siblings were Annie Burr Jennings,
108-736: The American Petroleum Institute in 1947–1948 and its treasurer in 1949–1950. He was also a trustee of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the Avalon Foundation . Jennings continued as chief executive officer of Socony Mobil until his retirement in 1958. On June 18, 1923, Jennings married Kate deForest Prentice (1903–1994), daughter of John Hill Prentice and Kate Sheldon Harrison. They had three children: In 1968, Jennings died at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City after
126-512: The California Gold Rush and had set up a successful dry goods merchandise business, outfitting prospecting camps along the coast and around Sacramento . Through his paternal grandmother, Esther Judson Goodsell, B. B. Jennings was a grandnephew of Almira Geraldine Goodsell Rockefeller, whose husband was Standard Oil co-founder William Avery Rockefeller Jr. Jennings was raised in Fairfield, Connecticut , where his father had built
144-843: The Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford . The House of Representatives has its basis in the earliest incarnation of the General Assembly, the "General Corte" established in 1636 whose membership was divided between six generally elected magistrates (the predecessor of the Connecticut Senate) and three-member "committees" representing each of the three towns of the Connecticut Colony ( Hartford , Wethersfield , and Windsor ). The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut , adopted in 1639, replaced
162-679: The War Shipping Administration . He was awarded the presidential certificate of merit for outstanding contributions to the war effort. He was also one of the first recipients of the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award in October 1952, honored for his World War II services in the War Shipping Administration. After the end of the war he returned to the company and was named president and chairman of
180-637: The General Assembly. It was in 1698 that the General Assembly divided itself into its current bicameral form, with the twelve assistants (that replaced the magistrates) as the Council (which became the Senate in the 1818 constitution ) and the deputies as the House of Representatives, which began electing the Speaker to preside over it. The terms of representatives were raised to two years in 1884. The Speaker of
198-499: The House presides over the House of Representatives. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House resolution. In addition to presiding over the body, the Speaker is also its chief leadership position and controls the flow of legislation and committee assignments. Other House leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders , are elected by their respective party caucuses relative to their party's strength in
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#1732786775375216-678: The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan presiding. His wife died in 1964 at the age of 93. Connecticut House of Representatives Minority The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly , the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut . The house is composed of 151 members representing an equal number of districts, with each constituency containing nearly 22,600 residents. Representatives are elected to two-year terms with no term limits . The House convenes within
234-445: The chamber. The current Speaker is Matthew Ritter of the 1st House District the includes part of Hartford . The Majority Leader is Jason Rojas of the 9th House District which includes part of East Hartford and part of Manchester . The Minority Leader is Republican Vincent Candelora of the 86th House District that includes part of Durham , part of East Haven , part of Guilford , and North Branford . Current members of
252-401: The committees with deputies; each town would elect three or four deputies for six-month terms. Although the magistrates and deputies sat together, they voted separately and in 1645 it was decreed that a measure had to have the approval of both groups in order to pass. The Charter of 1662 reduced the number of deputies per town to no more than two, and also changed the title of the legislature to
270-519: The company's real estate department, and then assistant to the president. In 1939, eight years after Socony merged with Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum, he was appointed to the board of directors and put in charge of transportation. In 1942, Jennings left the company to become assistant director of tanker operations in the United States Maritime Commission and then assistant deputy administrator for tanker operations of
288-425: The executive committee. In 1955 he became chairman of the board and continued as chairman of the executive committee. Also in 1955, the company changed its name to Socony Mobil (renamed Mobil Oil Corporation in 1966). During his tenure as chief executive officer the company experienced rapid expansion, tripling its worldwide gross crude production. Jennings was vice president in charge of the transportation division of
306-584: Was an 1887 initiate into Yale's Skull and Bones Society, and later graduated from Columbia Law School . Jennings served on the boards of Bethlehem Steel , United States Industrial Alcohol Company , McKesson & Robbins , Kingsport Press , Signature Company, National Fuel Gas , and Grocery Store Products. In 1923, Jennings was elected to serve in the Connecticut House of Representatives . In 1896, he married Mary Dows Brewster (1871–1964), daughter of industrialist Benjamin Brewster and Elmina Hersey Dows. Together, they had two children: Jennings built
324-637: Was tapped for the secret society Scroll and Key . He continued his involvement with Yale as an alumnus, serving as a member of the Yale Corporation Council and as chairman of the Yale Development Committee. After his graduation from Yale in 1920, Jennings began his career as a clerk in the marine department of the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony). He became a purchasing agent, then manager of
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