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William Rhodes Davis
William Rhodes Davis (February 10, 1889 – August 1, 1941) was a United States businessman whose oil interests involved him in furthering the strategic interests of Nazi Germany.
==Early years==
Davis was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 10, 1889, into a family of limited means. His father was a policeman. He claimed to be a relative of Cecil Rhodes on his mother's side and of Jefferson Davis on his father's side, assertions which remain unproven.〔Harrington, ''Mystery Man'', 1〕 He held menial positions on railroad trains and eventually became a locomotive engineer.〔Harrington, ''Mystery Man'', 2〕〔''New York Times'': ("Wm. R. Davis Dead; Noted Oil Man, 52," August 2, 1941 ), accessed June 18, 2012〕
His career in the oil industry began in 1913 when he organized a small company in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and became a "wildcatter". He volunteered for the U.S. Army during World War I and was discharged as a second lieutenant in 1920. He saw action in France and later claimed to have been wounded, though the only injuries he received occurred when he jumped from a moving train.〔Harrington, ''Mystery Man'', 3〕 He worked as an oil broker in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and late in the 1920s was party to a complicated conflict between several independent oilmen and Standard Oil that revolved around settling thousands of colonists on land in Peru.〔Harrington, ''Mystery Man'', 5-9〕
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