Jack Pershing Stanton

Background

Stanton, Jack Pershing was born on November 2, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph Patrick Stanton and Henriette (Fourestie) Berry.

Education

Student, University Illinois, 1939-1943; student, Illinois Institute Technology, 1944; student chemical engineering, Control Young Men’s Christian Association College, 1938.

Career

Chemical engineer, The Pure Oil Corporation, Northfield, Illinois, 1943-1947; assistant superintendent, The Pure Oil Corporation, Van, Texas, 1947-1948; resident chemist, The Pure Oil Corporation, Worland, Wyoming, 1948-1950; manager oil testing, consultant, Commercial Testing and Engineering, Chicago, 1950-1952; chemical engineer, product manager to manager new products application, Nalco Chemical Company, Chicago, 1952-1957; product manager corrosion control, Visco division Nalco Chemical Company, Houston, 1957-1960; regional manager, Southern South America International division, Nalco Chemical Company, Buenos Aires, 1960-1962; vice president, Oilwell Research Company, Dallas, 1962-1963; technical director, Cochrane Chemical Company, Wewoka, Oklahoma, 1963-1964; president, consultant, American Coordinated Technologists Inc., Houston, 1964-1973; real estate investor, R-Innovators, Houston, 1973-1978; residential builder, R-Innovators, Houston, 1978-1993.

Achievements

• Registered profile engineer.

Membership

Public address speaker Houston Board Education, 1993, United We Stand American, 1993. Founder Peoples' Activist Leaders' Society and Voters Vanguard, 1993-1994. Member American Society for Testing and Materials (committee chairman Industrial, national vice chairman).

Interests

• Avocations: tennis, table tennis, horseshoes, bridge.

Connections

Married Virginia Gail Dudek Myers, March 27, 1947. Children: D. Larry, J. Terry, Maureen Lee.

Father:

Joseph Patrick Stanton Berry

Mother:

Henriette (Fourestie) Berry

Spouse:

Virginia Gail Dudek Myers

child:

Maureen Lee Stanton

child:

D. Larry Stanton

child:

J. Terry Stanton