J. Paul Getty
@jgetty
American industrialist and art collector (1892–1976)
Building Getty Oil as Founder · United States
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Key facts
- Lived
- 1892–1976
- Educated at
- Magdalen College · University of California, Berkeley · University of Southern California · John H. Francis Polytechnic High School
About
J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) was an art collector and autobiographer. They were born in Minneapolis. They studied at Magdalen College.
In context
Getty Oil was founded in 1964 and closed in 2012, after 48 years. Among the 11 other petroleum industry companies founded in the 1960s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 46 years, so this one outlasted most of them.
Contribution
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