1. Harold Glenn Hamm was born on December 11,1945 and is an American business magnate in the oil and gas business.
24 Facts About Harold Hamm
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Harold Hamm is known for pioneering fracking of shale oil resources.
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Harold Hamm is the founder and chairman of Continental Resources.
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In 2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Harold Hamm as his energy advisor, and Harold Hamm was a donor to the Romney campaign.
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Harold Hamm was a fundraiser and donor to Donald Trump's 2016,2020, and 2024 presidential campaigns.
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Harold Hamm was born in Lexington, Oklahoma, the 13th and youngest child of cotton sharecroppers, Jane Elizabeth and Leland Albert Harold Hamm.
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At age 16, Harold Hamm started working at a gas station to support his family.
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Harold Hamm later went on to muck out oil tanks at a refinery.
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Harold Hamm pioneered the development of the Bakken oil field in North Dakota and Montana using horizontally drilled wells and hydraulic fracturing.
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When Continental Resources grew into a major oil producer, Harold Hamm became a billionaire.
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Harold Hamm was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Shortly after being named energy advisor to Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in March 2012, Harold Hamm donated $985,000 to the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future.
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Harold Hamm has been described as part of the conservative donor network of the Koch brothers, Charles and David Koch.
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At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Harold Hamm criticized the Obama administration's energy policies, claiming that President Barack Obama was "burdening oil companies with greater regulations" so that gasoline prices would spike.
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Harold Hamm denounced the Iran nuclear deal struck by the Department of State in 2015, asserting that Iran would be more able to export petroleum and develop an atomic bomb.
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Harold Hamm has been a critic of the Joe Biden administration's energy and environmental policies.
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Harold Hamm has been given a seat at Trump's inauguration not far from the dais, next to billionaires Rebekah Mercer, Steve Wynn, Robert Kraft, Richard LeFrak, Phil Ruffin, Robert Mercer, and Carl Icahn.
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Journalist Emily Atkin observes that Harold Hamm organized most of the fossil fuel industry fundraisers for the Trump campaign.
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Harold Hamm has led a decades-long campaign against renewable energy sources.
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Harold Hamm is a member of the Global Leadership Council at the Offutt School of Business of Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.
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Harold Hamm filed for divorce on May 19,2012, but Hamm said that he separated from her in 2005.
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Several media outlets reported that up to half of Harold Hamm's estimated $20 billion fortune could be transferred to his wife, which would become a world record for most money transferred in a divorce.
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Harold Hamm has honorary degrees from the University of Mary, Northwestern Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma.
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Harold Hamm received an honorary degree from the University of North Dakota.