Benjamin Brewster Jennings (June 9, 1898 – October 2, 1968)[1] was an American business executive, president of the Socony-Vacuum company, which became, in 1955, the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), which would later become Mobil Oil, and then merge to become part of ExxonMobil.[2][3]
Early life
B. B. Jennings was born to Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) and Mary Dows Brewster in New York City. Both his paternal grandfather, Oliver Burr Jennings (1825–1893), and his maternal grandfather, Benjamin Brewster (1828–1897) after whom he was named, were involved with Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller and had become his partners in running the