Fleming became a resident of Texas in 1924. He retired from Anderson, Clayton and Company in 1960, having served as president from 1939 to 1953 and chairman of the board from 1953 to 1960. He helped his firm evolve from a copartnership trading only in American-grown cotton into a publicly owned corporation that dealt also in foreign cotton and coffee, grain, and vegetable oils. During the last decade of his business career, Fleming directed the firm into the food-products field.
He served on the governing boards of the University of Houston and Rice University, as well as the Kinkaid School in Houston. He was a board member of Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor University Medical Foundation. He was vice chairman of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Commission on Foreign Economic Policy and was an adviser to the ninth session of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade conference in Geneva. He served on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Although never a candidate for public office, he exercised a strong influence in local and state politics.
On February 7, 1920, Fleming married Clare Evelyn Knowles of England. They became the parents of four children. Fleming died in Houston on July 5, 1964.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lamar Fleming, Jr., Growth of the Business of Anderson, Clayton and Company, ed. James A. Tinsley (Houston: Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association, 1966). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Who's Who in America, 1960-61.
James A. Tinsley
"FLEMING, LAMAR, JR." The Handbook of Texas Online.
Fleming became a resident of Texas in 1924. He retired from Anderson, Clayton and Company in 1960, having served as president from 1939 to 1953 and chairman of the board from 1953 to 1960. He helped his firm evolve from a copartnership trading only in American-grown cotton into a publicly owned corporation that dealt also in foreign cotton and coffee, grain, and vegetable oils. During the last decade of his business career, Fleming directed the firm into the food-products field.
He served on the governing boards of the University of Houston and Rice University, as well as the Kinkaid School in Houston. He was a board member of Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor University Medical Foundation. He was vice chairman of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Commission on Foreign Economic Policy and was an adviser to the ninth session of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade conference in Geneva. He served on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Although never a candidate for public office, he exercised a strong influence in local and state politics.
On February 7, 1920, Fleming married Clare Evelyn Knowles of England. They became the parents of four children. Fleming died in Houston on July 5, 1964.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lamar Fleming, Jr., Growth of the Business of Anderson, Clayton and Company, ed. James A. Tinsley (Houston: Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association, 1966). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Who's Who in America, 1960-61.
James A. Tinsley
"FLEMING, LAMAR, JR." The Handbook of Texas Online.
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