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American Republics Corporation
IndustryOil, transportation and shipping
Founded1916 (1916) in Houston, Texas
Defunct1956
FateSold to Sinclair Oil
Key people
  • Joseph S. Cullinan
  • Will Hogg
  • James L. Autry
  • Emerson Francis Woodward
  • Torkild Rieber
  • Thomas Peter Lee
Subsidiaries
  • Farmers Oil Company
  • Republic Production Company
  • American Petroleum Company
  • Petroleum Iron Works
  • Papoose Oil Company
  • Federal Petroleum Company

American Republics Corporation was a Texas oil company that was founded by Joseph S. Cullinan in Houston, Texas in 1916. Joseph S. Cullinan owned Farmers Oil Company and other companies. Cullinan consolidated with twenty subsidiary companies into the American Republics Corporation. American Republics Corporation became the holding company for all the subsidiary. By 1927 American Republics Corporation owned two million acres of oil land, refineries, rail tankers and tanker ships. Cullinan resigned as president of American Republics Corporation in 1928. During the Great Depression American Republics Corporation was forced into receivership. In 1936 Cullinan returned and became president again. American Republics Corporation was active in supporting the World War II efforts with oil supply and tanker ships.[1][2]

  1. ^ Sons of the South, By Clayton Rand, page 195
  2. ^ Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945, By Diana Davids Hinton, Roger M. Olien

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