Augustus Calvin Long (23 August 1904 – 15 November 2001) was a director of

Texaco Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Independ ...

from 1950 to 1977, serving as President 1953–1956, chairman and CEO 1956–1965, and Chairman of the executive committee and CEO 1970–1971. He was also a director of Freeport Sulphur Co., Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Biography

The son of a U.S. Federal District Judge he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1926 and served at sea for four years before becoming a

service station supervisor in 1930. Appointed as

's marketing General Manager for Ireland in 1932 and manager for the

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in 1934, he was recalled to Navy duty as a Lieutenant during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

coordinating petroleum supplies for the Allied forces. On 29 November 1926, Long married Elizabeth Walsh. They had three daughters: Elizabeth, Ellen, and Sheila. His first wife died in October 1963. On 19 December 1964 Long remarried to Doris Ann Penrose. They had one daughter, Dorothy.

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