John D. Rockefeller

Collis P. Huntington was a powerful man in his time. However, as we all know powerful men are not always good. Which leads us to why do we consider these great, powerful men to be robber barons? Collis P. Huntington was a power hungry fellow. He became involved with Thomas Scott in wanting to control all the lines in California, not just to the Arizona border. While trying to accomplish this he was involved in a hard-fought contest to influence Congress over rights of way. He was reported to be spending $200,000 to $500,000 each session to influence members of Congress. Huntington ended up winning the contest by getting an order from the federal government in 1877 that allowed the Southern Pacific (the railroad company) to build across Arizona and New Mexico. Huntington acted as the railroads lobbyist. He successfully blocked efforts to secure aid for potential competitors in Washington. In 1885 a feud between Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford. Huntington waited five years for revenge and got it by taking Stanford's job as president of the Southern Pacific. These are just a few of many reasons that Collis P. Huntington was a Robber Baron, but they successfully get the point across.

Trusts cut prices to drive competitors out of business.

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His father John D. Rockefeller III was the brother of Nelson Rockefeller so it makes him his uncle.

John D. Rockefeller had five siblings: his sisters were Elizabeth, Mary, and Lucy, and his brothers were William and Franklin. Elizabeth was the oldest, and the siblings played a significant role in his early life and upbringing. The family's dynamics influenced Rockefeller's values and work ethic as he grew into one of the most prominent figures in American business history.

well you know, he spent it on chickens and broccoli and texas road house

Eastern Texas

the acquisition of one hundred gas stations owned by Coastal Mart in the eastern United States. The stations and their convenience stores were renamed Sunoco and APlus. That year Sunoco netted $438 million.

John D. Rockefeller was 21 years old when he cast his first vote in a US presidential election. It was the 1860 election and he voted for Lincoln. At that age he already involved in a prosperous commodities firm in Cleveland, Ohio. By the end of 1862 his profits were upwards of $17,000. This was a remarkable amount of money for 1862.

by selling oil cheaper than his competitors, forcing his competitors to go out of business or to be taken over by Rockefeller

Nothing. He owned a monopoly in the oil industry!

Because he was both.

John D Rockefeller was a man who owned a wealthy business. He was born on 8 July 1839 in Richford, New York, and died on 23 May 1937.

He was the founder of the Standard Oil company, and a philanthropist. He sold standard oil for a lot more then it was worth. In today's money he would have been worth 2.5 billion dollars. He paid his workers very little.

by dominating the market, becoming the richest founders of all time.

Rockefeller centre is famous for a few different reason. Henry Rockefeller was a famous American, the building housed the Rockettes, and the architecture is a combination of a variety of buildings.

Yes, he was a Captain of Industry. He built a great industrial empire and at the same time donated

Rockefeller believes that he should give his money away.

he was considered both because he was a monopoly on the oil business but still was a great philanthropist

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. likely did many things in 1945, but most memorable and significant among his actions that year was his donation of land in Manhattan for a permanent headquarters of the United Nations. The six blocks he donated (worth an estimated $8.5 million in 1945) stretch from 42nd Street to 48th Street and from 1st Avenue to the East River. By agreement of the federal government, the land is considered international territory.

Why not acknowledge that he also gave jobs to quite a few people who worked for him as he made that monopoly, and they paid for the things that THEY wanted. It's a classic position of the people who want to blame the rich for all of the world's problems. The reality is, the rich got that way by providing goods and services that the rest of us want. If you don't want to contribute to the Bill Gates empire, don't buy any Microsoft products. But since Gates has provided something that helps the rest of us be more productive, you need to acknowledge that he isn't just a "robber barron".

Same thing with Rockefeller: he provided as much as he took.

One method was by buying out competitors. Legally. Another would be preventing rival companies from using the railroads he held a controlling interest in. Which, at the time I believe, was also still legal, as anti-trust laws had yet to be created in the USA.

one mehtod he used to build his empire was Horizontal intergration.

J. D. Rockefeller was considered both a robber baron and a captain of industry.

He hugged Kitties