The stadium’s name was changed to honor OSU alumnus T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oilman and entrepreneur who founded Mesa Petroleum Company in 1956 and served as its CEO from 1956 to 1996.
Shea-Porter supports a clean and renewable energy policy to decrease U.S. reliance on foreign energy sources and agrees with a number of the objectives of financier and oil magnate T. Boone Pickens on these matters including continuance of emissions trading measures, a system already in effect for her constituency in the form of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative begun in 2003 by Republican governor George Pataki of New York.
OSU Athletics Inc. was formerly titled "OSU Cowboy Golf" and its board members included influential booster T. Boone Pickens, who gave $165 million to OSU Athletics in January 2006, the largest gift in National Collegiate Athletic Association history.
In 1951, T. Boone Pickens, a graduate of OSU with a degree in petroleum geology, was looking for a job and asked Iba for help.
Daniel Boone | Pat Boone | Debby Boone | Daniel Boone (TV series) | Boone | Boone County | T. Boone Pickens | Boone, North Carolina | Aaron Boone | Pickens County, South Carolina | Bret Boone | Boone County, Illinois | Pickens County | Fort Pickens | Slim Pickens | Pickens | Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky | Andrew Pickens | The Richard Boone Show | Pickens County, Georgia | Mary Boone | Lucy Pickens | Jon Pickens | Boone County, Missouri | Boone County, Kentucky | Boone County, Indiana | Andrew Pickens (congressman) | William K. Boone | William Boone (mathematician) | William Boone |
The major donors (62 percent) to this PAC are energy trader T. Boone Pickens, who funded the Swift Boat campaign in 2004 against John Kerry as well as the Progress for America Voter Fund PAC and the Straight Talk America PAC, with homebuilder Bob Perry, investor Harold Clark Simmons, and Richard Collins, a Dallas County, Texas newspaper publisher; totaling over $10 million.