Richard Dan Kinder

Background

Kinder, Richard Dan was born on October 19, 1944 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. Son of Luke Frazelle and Edna (Corbin) Kinder.

Education

Bachelor, University Missouri, 1966. Juris Doctor, University Missouri, 1968.

Career

He received a Bachelor in 1966 and a Juris Doctor in 1968, both from the University of Missouri. From 1990 to December 1996, he served as its President and chief operating officer. They purchased Enron Liquids Pipeline for $40 million. They also merged with KN Energy.

After a number of acquisitions, most prominently El Paso Corporation, Kinder Morgan became the largest midstream energy company in North America.

He is a chairman of the board of trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and serves as chairman of the A Republican, he campaigned for Bush-Quayle in 1992, for Bush-Cheney in 2004, for John McCain in 2008, and for Kay Bailey Hutchison and Tom DeLay. In 2014, Kinder was listed on Forbes Richest People in the United States. Kinder is one of the seven self-made billionaires from Houston on the list, with a Netto worth of $11 billion.

As such, he is the 41st richest American citizen. The Kinders founded the in an effort to support education and the Greater Houston area by promoting preservation and accessibility to parks and green space.

Through the foundation, the Kinders donated $15 million to Rice University in 2010 to establish the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.

The foundation has funded projects that include the Bush Center at Southern Methodist University, the Texas Heart Institute and the Houston Food Bank. In October 2013, it was announced that the foundation would give $50 million to the Houston Parks Board for the Bayou Greenways 2020 Project, which connects greenspaces along Houston"s bayous and creates parkland. In 2014, the made possible the Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, a new program to support excellence in the teaching and study of American constitutional and democratic traditions.

In 2015, the foundation made a new, endowed gift of $25 million to MU to provide permanent support for the renamed Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.

Also, The committed a principal gift of $50 million to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the redevelopment of its 14-acre campus which was unveiled in January 2015.

Achievements

• Richard Dan Kinder has been listed as a noteworthy company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

In college, he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He previously served as a member of the board of Baker Hughes, Transocean and Waste Management, as a national board member of the Smithsonian Institution and is a past chairman of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.

Connections

Married Anne Lamkin; 1 child Kara. Married Nancy McNeil, 1997.

Father:

Luke Frazelle Kinder

Mother:

Edna (Corbin) Kinder

Spouse:

Anne Lamkin

Spouse:

Nancy McNeil

child:

Kara Kinder