Morgan
J. Davis was born in Anson, Texas, on 18th November, 1898. After leaving
school in Fort Worth, Morgan spent a while in Texas Christian University.
He served briefly in the armed services during the First
World War.
In
1918 Davis he was appointed as assistant engineer for Holway and Associates
in Oklahoma. He attended the University of Texas (1924-1925) where
he studied geology. After leaving university Davis became a field
geologist with Humble Oil. Over the next few years he made rapid progress
and eventually he became chairman of the company.
Davis
was a member of the Suite
8F Group. The name came from the room in the Lamar Hotel in Houston
where they held their meetings. Members of the group included Lyndon
B. Johnson,
George Brown and Herman
Brown (Brown & Root), Gus Wortham
(American General Insurance Company), Jesse
H. Jones (multimillionaire investor in a large number of organizations
and chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation), James
Abercrombie (Cameron Iron Works), James
Elkins (American General Insurance and Pure Oil Pipe Line), William
Vinson (Great Southern Life Insurance), William
Hobby (Governor of Texas) and John Connally
(Governor of Texas). Alvin Wirtz and Edward
Clark, were also members of the Suite 8F Group.
Davis
was appointed as president of the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists (1952-53). He retired in 1963 but continued to work as
a petroleum geology consultant in Houston. Davis was also president
of the Geological Society of America (1969-1970).
Morgan
J. Davis
died of cancer in Houston on 31st December, 1979.
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