Sid Williams

Background

Richardson bought White House influence primarily by donating money to Elliot Roosevelt, the hapless son of President Roosevelt, and by inviting the president on fishing trips to the Gulf of Mexico.

Education

A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912.

Career

Within six months, Eisenhower was promoted to head of the United States Army. After the war, Richardson financed Eisenhower"s presidential campaigns and persuaded the retired general to run for office. Participant of his persuasion included buying a farm for Eisenhower at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

He built one of the largest private collections of these artists" work, which opened to the public as the Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art in 1982. After a yearlong renovation, it reopened as the Sid Richardson Museum in 2006.

The foundation awards grants to Texas organizations in the areas of education, health, human services, and cultural institutions. Grants in the latter two categories are restricted to groups in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area.

The foundation"s Fort Worth headquarters shares a building with the Sid Richardson Museum.

Richardson named John B. Connally, the future Texas governor, as co-executor of the estate, a designation which provided Connally with steady income for years thereafter. He also bought and donated land for the Sid Richardson Boy Scout Camp

Sid Richardson Auditorium of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas

Sid Richardson Museum, in Fort Worth housing Sid Richardson"s extensive collection of Western Art featuring works by Remington and Russell

Sid Richardson College, one of eleven residential colleges at Rice University, Houston

Sid West. Richardson Physical Sciences Building at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth

Sid Richardson Scout Ranch, a Boy Scout camp on Lake Bridgeport, near Decatur

Sid Richardson Hall, an academic building at the University of Texas, Austin, which houses the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection, the Utah Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection. Sid Richardson Building, Baylor University, Waco, which houses the Paul L. Foster Success Center and the Department of Mathematics.

Sid Richardson Recreation Center, Austin College, Sherman

Sid Richardson Building, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth

Sid West. Richardson Visual Arts Center at Fort Worth Country Day School, completed in 2009.

Sid Richardson Science Center, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene

Sid Richardson Hall, A former residential hall at Howard Payne University Brownwood.

Connections

Partner:

Clint Murchison, Senior

Friend:

Fort Worth