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Self-taught prospector with a knack for squeezing black gold out of abandoned fields, political maverick who fought the New Deal and broke with the Democratic Party and folksy philanthropist whose generosity made the Rockefellers look like skinflints — that was Hugh Roy Cullen, a rich old coot with a heart of gold. Dropping out of school in the fifth grade, Cully’s first job was in a San Antonio candy factory, where he earned a not-so-sweet three dollars a week. Four years later at age 16, he chose the gypsy life of a cotton buyer in the Oklahoma Territory.