Benedict I. Lubell
Benedict I. Lubell was an American oil executive and philanthropist.
Biography
Lubell was born to a Jewish family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His father Samuel L. Lubell founded the Bell Oil and Gas Company, an independent oil refiner in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Lubell Brothers, a shirt manufacturer in New York City. He had two sisters: art dealer Grace Borgenicht Brandt and Shirley Black Kash. He was a graduate of Columbia College, Phi Beta Kappa, and Columbia University Law School. After school, he practiced law in New York City at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan until 1936, when he joined the family business in Tulsa. In 1965, the family sold Bell Oil and Lubell formed a new oil production company, the Lubell Oil Company, where he worked until his retirement in 1995.Lubell was a founding trustee of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, president of the Tulsa Arts Council, and head of Tulsa's Municipal Arts Commission, and served as a director of the National Bank of Tulsa. In 1982, he received the
Oklahoma Governor's Arts Award. Lubell Park in Tulsa is named in his honor.