Percy C. Spencer

(1893-1969) lived in Lincoln. Lawyer, corporate executive, served with Sinclair Oil Company after 1934, and became variously its president, chief executive officer, and board chairman from 1949 to 1964, a period when new pipelines were constructed, and a modern experimental research center was established; also was chairman and treasurer of the American Petroleum Institute for eight years; company merged with Atlantic Richfield in 1969. Consult Current Biography (1951) 598-599 and Time, May 7, 1951, pp. 89-90, 92 and New York Times obituary, November 13, 1969, p. 43 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 5 (1973) 682.

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