What is T. Boone Pickens?
[[File:T. Boone Pickens discusses the impact of shale natural gas on the American economy at the Hudson Institute on 6 April 2016 - 25 (cropped).jpg|thumb|265x265px|Pickens in 2016]] '''Thomas Boone Pickens''' (May 22, 1928 &ndash; September 11, 2019), known as '''T. Boone Pickens''', was an [[Americans|American]] [[businessman]] and [[financier]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Pickens |first= T. Boone |title= Boone |url= https://archive.org/details/boone0000pick |year= 1987 |publisher= Houghton Mifflin |location= Boston |pages=[https://archive.org/details/boone0000pick/page/149 149]–260 |isbn= 0-395-41433-4 }}</ref> Pickens was the chairman of [[BP Capital Management]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Pickens |first= T. Boone |title= Boone |url= https://archive.org/details/boone0000pick |year= 1987 |publisher= Houghton Mifflin |location= Boston |isbn= 0-395-41433-4 }} p. 73.</ref> At the time of his death, Pickens had a net worth of $500 million. He was born in [[Holdenville, Oklahoma|Holdenville]], [[Oklahoma]]. Pickens died on September 11, 2019 in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] from [[stroke]]-related problems at the age of 91.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/t-boone-pickens-oracle-of-oil-and-corporate-raider-dies-at-91.html|title=T. Boone Pickens, the 'Oracle of Oil,' corporate raider and billionaire philanthropist, dies at 91|last=Steinberg|first=Marty|date=2019-09-11|website=CNBC|language=en|access-date=2019-09-11}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pickens, T. Boone}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Philanthropists from Texas]] [[Category:American environmentalists]] [[Category:American chief executives]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Texas]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Oklahoma]] {{US-bio-stub}}