Lloyd Bentsen Sr., 95, father of the senator from Texas, were killed Crash
Direction: Sr. Lloyd Bentsen, the millionaire ranch, his son. Lloyd Jr., who was vice-presidential democratic candidate in the year 1988 was killed this morning in a road accident in Edinburgh, Tex. He was 95 years.
Lloyd Bentsen Sr., the millionaire ranch, his son. Lloyd Jr., who was vice-presidential democratic candidate in the year 1988 was killed this morning in a road accident in Edinburgh, Tex. He was 95 years.
Edinburgh, police said Bentsen did not stop at a stop sign and the limousine he was driving was taken on the driver’s side of a car, that priority. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
The driver of another car, 22-year-old Ramiro Rosales, was treated for cuts and Prel lungs and was released. His sister, Margarita, a passenger was hospitalized with nose and throat injuries.
The 7-hour accident occurred about 30 km south-east of M. Bentsen’s Ranch, Arrowhead.
In an interview during the summer, the elder said Bentsen, he enjoyed before dawn rise, Driving around his fortune, then the position of his office, a full day for business.
Mr. Bentsen was an almost legendary figure in southern Texas, where he arrived almost without resources in 1917 and Galantamin a fortune in real estate, oil and livestock worth an estimated $ 50 million to $ 100 million.
One of six children of Danish parents, it was erected on a small farm in South Dakota. He left school at age 13 and spent his adolescent years of age domestication wild mustangs and working conditions for farmers to harvest grain.
He joined the army during the First World War and was stationed in Texas, where he met Edna Ruth Colbath, he calls, Dolly and his wife. Mrs. Bentsen is dead 1977. Asked whether last summer, his son would be a good Vice President, Lloyd Bentsen Sr. replied:”It is a good man because he had such a stepmother. Let me tell you about my Dolly.”
In 1920-Mr. Bentsen began investing in real estate in the lush valley of the Rio Grande, selling a large portion of farmland and the rest leased by the workers of Mexico.
In the centre-1950 is an eruption of Appeal -”15, 16, 17 costumes in total, many ihnen”von M. Bentsen’s reminder accused of selling the dry, it is irrigated represented. There was no detection of fraud, but Mr. Bentsen was approved by the court to pay $ 5000 to at least one complainant. Mr. Bentsen argued that it was not the real seller of the land, even if the original owner and still in possession of rights, when the controversy arose.
Senator Bentsen never entered real estate business from his father, Bentsen Development Company. Instead of his father and uncle invested $ 7 million to organize an insurance company in Houston and Senator Bentsen served as chairman of this company, until he ran for the Senate during 1970. The senator has his father als”mein best friend.”
In addition to Senator Bentsen, M. Bentsen leaves two other son: Kenneth Houston, and gift of McAllen, Tex., and a daughter, Betty Winn, McAllen.
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