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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

First National Bank of Enid.

 "Champlin participated in the land run of 1893, investing in the Enid State Guaranty Bank. Champlin became ill and returned to Kansas. Upon recovery returned to operate a lumber yard with operations in Enid, Hobart, Kingfisher and Lawton. Charley and Sherman Goltry had taken control of the Bank during Champlin's absence, and Champlin repurchased the bank from them. 

During the wave of bank closings in March 1933, Governor William H. Murray ordered all banks in the State of Oklahoma to close.

Champlin refused and continued to operate the bank which was financially sound. 

In response, the governor called out the National Guard. 

Captain Stephen J. England led eighteen militia men into town to close the bank, earning the 


First National Bank of Enid


 the distinction of the only bank ever 

to be closed by the military in American history."  




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Champlin_House 


"William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray

 (November 21, 1869 – October 15, 1956)

 was an American educator, lawyer, and  Bigot politician who served as 

the first Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma, and as the 9th Governor of Oklahoma.

 He was a Southern Democratic member of the Democratic Party

 who opposed the New Deal 

and supported racial segregation." 


"In the 1920s, he traveled South America attempting to start a colony. He eventually negotiated a contract for a colony with the Bolivian government under President Bautista Saavedra in 1922, but the colony, Aguairenda, was largely unsuccessful. "

"returning to Oklahoma, he was elected the ninth governor of Oklahoma, serving from 1931 to 1935. During his tenure as governor in years of the Great Depression, 

he established a record for the number of times he used the National Guard 

to perform duties in the state and for declaring martial law at a time of unrest.

In his later life, Murray published a three-volume memoir and several books which contained racist and antisemitic claims.

 Historian Reinhard H. Luthin described his populist campaign tactics and rhetoric 

as demagoguery." 

 

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"Celanese Corporation, formerly known as Hoechst Celanese,

 is an American technology and specialty materials company headquartered in Irving, Texas.

It is a Fortune 500 corporation.

 The company is the world's leading producer of acetic acid, 

producing about 1.95 million tonnes per year, representing approximately 20% of global production.

Celanese is also the world's largest producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celanese

"Celanese operates 25 production plants and six research centers in 11 countries, mainly in North America, Europe, and Asia. 

The company owns and operates the world's three largest acetic acid plants: 

one in the Clear Lake area of Pasadena, Texas, one on Jurong Island in Singapore, and a third in Nanjing, China." 

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"Petrofina was a Belgian oil company. It merged with Total in 1999 to form TotalFina, which after subsequent mergers has changed its name back to Total. 

In the United States, Fina's former refining and marketing operations are 

now owned by 

Delek US."  (7-11 franchises)


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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation 

was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It was organized in Delaware and headquartered in two skyscrapers in The Woodlands, Texas: 


The company was the subject of multiple environmental cases, including 

the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history - 

the 2014 settlement related to the former Tronox subsidiary of Kerr McGee, a company purchased by Anadarko in 2006 


"the 2019 Forbes Global 2000, Anadarko Petroleum was ranked as 

the 587th -largest public company in the world"


Anadarko was formed in 1959 as a subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern Corporation Pipe Line Company after the discovery of large amounts of natural gas in the Anadarko Basin, which underlies the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and extending into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. 

April 2000, the company acquired Union Pacific Resources in a $4.4 billion transaction 


"Anadarko owned a 25% non-operating minority interest in the Macondo Prospect, which was 65% owned and operated by BP,

 and was affected by

 the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010." 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko_Petroleum 

"In April 2014, Anadarko settled with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency to pay

 $5.15 billion

 to clean up environmental waste sites around the country. 

It was the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history"


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1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.

1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company.

1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Corporation and was kept as a wholly owned subsidiary.

1984: The Retail business of Champlin was purchased by American Petrofina, after Champlin closed the refinery.

around 1986, Union Pacific Corporation and Champlin Petroleum Company sold the Corpus Christi Refinery.( To citgo .)

The Champlin trade name was part of the deal.

 Champlin's name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company (UPRC).

During late 1990s, Union Pacific Corporation spun off the Union Pacific Resources Company.

2000: Anadarko Petroleum acquired Union Pacific Resources. 







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