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{{Short description|American business executive}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kenneth = BootsStanley Adams
| image = <noinclude>K. S. Boots Adams.jpg</noinclude>
| image_sizealt = 185pxPhotograph of K. S. Boots Adams
| alt caption = Photograph of K. S. Boots Adams
| caption birth_date = K. S.August "Boots"31, Adams1899
| birth_name birth_place = Kenneth Stanley[[Horton, AdamsKansas]]
| birth_datedeath_date = {{Death date and = August age|1975|03|30|1899|08|31, 1899}}
| birth_place death_place = [[HortonBartlesville, KansasOklahoma]]
| resting_place = Memorial Park Cemetery▼
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|03|30|1899|08|31}}
| death_place alma_mater = [[BartlesvilleUniversity of Kansas]], Oklahoma
| children = [[Bud Adams]]<br/>Mary Louise Adams<br/>Stephen Stanley Adams<br/>Kenneth Glenn Adams<br/>Gary Clark Adams<br/>Lisa Ann Adams<br/>Stephaine Lynn Adams
▲| resting_place = Memorial Park Cemetery
| resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|36.72970|-95.92750|type:landmark|display=inline}}
| other_names = K.S. Adams<br />K.S. "Boots" Adams<br />Kenneth "Boots" Adams
| alma_mater = [[University of Kansas]]
| occupation = Business executive
| employer = [[Phillips Petroleum Company]]
| home_town = [[Bartlesville]], Oklahoma
| title = President of Phillips Petroleum
| term = 1939–1964
| predecessor = [[Frank Phillips (oil industrialist)|Frank Phillips]]
| successor = Stanley Learned
| boards = Chairman of the Board of Phillips Petroleum
| children = [[Bud Adams]]
}}
 
'''Kenneth Stanley '''"'''Boots'''"''' Adams''' (August 31, 1899 – March 30, 1975) was an American [[business executive]], [[University of Kansas]] [[Boosterism|booster]], and [[city|civic]] [[Philanthropy|philanthropist]] of [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]]. Adams began his career with the [[Phillips Petroleum Company]] in 1920 as a clerk in the warehouse department. Twelve years later, he was chosen by founder and president [[Frank Phillips (oil industrialist)|Frank Phillips]] to fill the newly created position of Assistant to the President. On April 26, 1938, Adams was elected president of Phillips Petroleum Company by the unanimous vote of the company's Boardboard of Directorsdirectors.
 
Upon succeeding Frank Phillips as president, Adams, then 38 years old, became one of the nation's youngest leaders of a major corporation. He remained in continuous service as the company's [[CEO|chief executive]] until his retirement in 1964. Although he retired from company operations, Adams continued serving as its board chairman until 1968; finishing his affiliation as a board member from 1968 to 1970. During his tenure, Adams grew the business into a major corporation by investing in natural gas and synthetic rubber operations.
 
==Early life==
Kenneth Stanley Adams was born August 31, 1899, in [[Horton, Kansas]];. He was the son of John V. and Lavella Adams (née Stanley).<ref name="ingham"/> His father was an engineer for the [[Rock Island Railroad]]. In 1902, the family provided room and board to many families affected by a flood, including some of John's co-workers.<ref name="LJW"/> One of the male guests noticed that Kenneth had a pair of boots he wore even to bed. The man began calling him "Boots". From then on, Kenneth Adams adopted "Boots" as his nickname.<ref name="LJW"/><ref name="Auto7W-1"/>
 
Adams graduated from [[Wyandotte High School]] in 1917, the same year brothers Lee Eldas "L.E." and [[Frank Phillips (oil industrialist)|Frank Phillips]] founded the [[Phillips Petroleum Company]]. After graduating, Adams moved to [[Dewey, Oklahoma]] and started his first job. He delivered ice in the neighboring town of [[Bartlesville]]. Adams said he was happy that the work involved heavy lifting, because it helped him maintain his physical conditioning which he would need as a college athlete.<ref name="LJW"/> He enrolled at the [[University of Kansas]] in the fall of 1917, and played on the university's football, baseball, and basketball teams. Although he would have graduated the following year, Adams dropped out of the university in 1920. He decided to place academics on hold and accept a position in the Phillips Petroleum Company.<ref name="LJW"/><ref name="ICEJ"/><ref name="Auto7W-2"/>
 
On 08September Sep8, 1920, Adams married Barbara Blanche Keeler; whose brother, [[W. W. Keeler]], would later become Presidentpresident and Chiefchief Executiveexecutive Officerofficer of Phillips Petroleum Corporation and Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Their eldest son, [[Bud Adams|Kenneth S. Jr.]], would himself become a business magnate and owner of the [[Tennessee Titans]]. In 1945, Boots and Blanche Adams were divorced. Boots Adams married Dorothy Glynn Stephens the following year.<ref name="ingham"/><ref name="TDOR16"/>
 
==Career at Phillips Petroleum==
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Boots Adams first entered the executive tier in 1932. Phillips Petroleum Company's founding president, [[Frank Phillips (oil industrialist)|Frank Phillips]], appointed Adams as his assistant. He was promoted despite opposition from executive staff, who considered Boots and Phillips to be an odd team. Frank Phillips was resistant to incorporating Adams' ideas.<ref name="ppchistory"/> Phillips instructed Adams: "I'm going to object to everything you do, but you go ahead and do it anyway."
 
Adams reconstituted [[Phillips 66ers|the company's amateur basketball team]]. Phillips had stopped sponsoring it after the 1929–30 season, because of the [[Great Depression|great depression]]. Adams personally recruited [[Joe Fortenberry]] and [[Jack Ragland]]; both of them were [[Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics|Olympians from 1936]]. He teamed them with [[Chuck Hyatt]], Tom Pickell, Jay Wallenstrom, and [[Bud Browning]]. Lastly, he recruited local favorites, Ray Ebling and Dave Perkins to complete the 1937 team.
 
The Phillips 66ers ended the season in first place. The team was favored to win the [[Amateur Athletic Union|AAU]] tournament as well. Instead, Denver won the championship, 43–38, in [[Bartlesville]]. Columnist Chet Nelson called the game: "the greatest game Rocky Mountain fans ever witnessed."<ref name="bball"/> In 1958, Boots Adams was inducted into the [[Helms Athletic Foundation|Helms Foundation Amateur Basketball Hall of Fame]].<ref name="AutoCZ-1"/>
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According to Reference for Business, Phillips and Adams "often disagreed as to how the company should be run."<ref name="ppchistory"/><ref name="AutoCZ-2"/> Nevertheless, Adams was able to secure Frank Phillips' confidence, and the authority to move his ideas forward.<ref name="Auto7W-3"/><ref name="PSH"/>
 
At the 1938, stockholders and board of directors annual meeting, company President Frank Phillips announced his plans to retire. He culminated his announcement saying he wanted K.S. Adams, "the fast-talking young man from Kansas with the big ideas, [to] be elected as the new president of Phillips Petroleum Company". The directors subsequently returned a unanimous vote in support of Phillips' recommendation.<ref name="TOMFP"/>
 
===Years as company president===
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Adams employed graduates of a variety of scientific disciplines. He advocated that research and technical expertise was needed for companies to compete in the emerging technological society. One of the newly hired professionals was Jack Graves, a [[geologist]] from the [[University of Oklahoma]]. Adams tasked Graves to evaluate an oil formation known locally as the ''Mississippi Chat''. The evaluation resulted in a significant new discovery of oil. Phillips continued using the study over the following three years – striking a lot of new oil as a direct result.<ref name="MChat"/>
 
Adams also diversified the company into the [[petrochemical]] industry, creating an additional [[revenue stream]]. Newly hired [[chemical engineer]]s were used to research synthetic polymers (''specifically petroleum -based polymers'').<ref name="Auto7W-4"/> He noticed the growth of companies like [[DuPont]] and [[Dow Chemical Company|Dow]],<ref name="DuDow"/> who were doing well based on the economic value of [[patent]]s. In particular, Adams wanted Phillips to be involved in developing synthetic rubber.<ref name="Butadiene"/>
 
With significant advancements in place, it was already possible to produce a material similar to rubber. It was however, inferior in quality, and cost -prohibitive to produce. Adams was concerned because two processes showed an equal potential to emerge as the preferred manner of production. One depended on [[distilling]] an [[Polymer additive|additive]] for [[Reactivity (chemistry)|reactivity]], while the other used a petroleum -based [[reagent]].<ref name="Grain v. Petrol"/> Adams was hopeful that rubber would come to be polymerized by [[petrochemical]] means.<ref name="Butadiene"/>
 
==== {{Anchor|U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program}}U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program ====
At the beginning of the US involvement in World War II, the supply of natural rubber from Southeast Asia was abruptly cut off. The government knew of the strategic importance of rubber and had instituted the {{anchor|Rubber Reserve Company}}[[Reconstruction Finance Corporation#Rubber Reserve Company|Rubber Reserve Company]] (RRC) to stockpile reserves of rubber to mitigate the consequences of being cut off from supplies. But the RRC had only one million tons of rubber in reserve, while the military consumed about 600,000 tons annually. Victory would depend on a massive influx of synthetic rubber. The program's success would be measured by tonnage alone. Either sufficient quantities would be produced, giving the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] a fighting chance, or demand would not be satisfied, guaranteeing an inability to prevail.
 
Boots Adams joined the [[consortium]], dedicating the resources of Phillips Petroleum Company to the effort dubbed [[Government Rubber-Styrene|GR-S (Government Rubber-Styrene)]].<ref name="DuDow"/> The program's success<ref name="Auto7W-5"/> was an achievement of high magnitude for the entire group of participants. On August 29, 1998, the GR-S, (also called the U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program), was officially labeled as a ''[[National Historic Chemical Landmarks|National Historic Chemical Landmark]]''.<ref name="AutoFA-1"/> Its records are stored in the archives of the [[University of Akron]] in [[Akron, Ohio]].
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Boots Adams retired from his position as company president in 1964, after 44 years with the company. The following year the city of Bartlesville organized a parade and civic holiday to honor Boots Adams on his 66th birthday – and give thanks with a public celebration. The schools in Bartlesville were closed and the town itself was officially renamed ''Bootsville'' for the entire day. A huge birthday cake was mocked up to resemble an oil storage tank, and the Phillips 66 logo ''"stood tall"'' in its own pair of boots.<ref name="Pres"/>
 
Several dignitaries were present as well including President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]];<ref name="Pres"/><ref name="UWP"/> as both a personal friend of Boots' and a U.S. Presidentpresident, carrying the gratitude of a nation.<ref name="Auto7W-11"/> Eisenhower was a direct beneficiary of the [[GR-S]] program and Adams' participation in it.<ref name="Butadiene"/> He was arguably the single man with "the most to lose" if GR-S had failed.
 
The President adopted the hobby of painting in 1950, as a relaxing way to reduce stress. He presented Boots Adams with a portrait he had recently painted – depicting Adams seated at the head of a table, as chairman of the PhilipsPhillips 66 board. The portrait was a prized heirloom of Adams' second wife, Dorothy Glynn, and remains in the family's care, having been passed on to the eldest daughter of Boots and Dorothy.<ref name="Pres"/>
 
[[W. Clarke Wescoe]], the [[University of Kansas]]' (KU) 10th chancellor attended as well; thanking Adams for his alumnus support, and philanthropic good willgoodwill. In appreciation, Wescoe announced the Universityuniversity's decision to name its planned on -campus residential complex, the Adams Center.<ref name="Auto7W-12"/><ref name="100grand"/> Stanley Learned, Boots Adams' successor as president of Phillips, as well as a KU alumnus himself, showed his support of the university's decision by donating {{US$|100000|1965|round=0}} for use "at the chancellors discretion".<ref name="LJW"/><ref name="100grand"/>
 
==Death and legacy==
Boots Adams died March 30, 1975, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and is buried at Bartlesville's Memorial Park Cemetery.<ref name="Auto7W-13"/> Under his leadership, Phillips Petroleum Company transformed from the {{US$|317000000|1939|round=0}} entity entrusted to him,<ref name="OUP"/> into a {{US$|2000000000|1964|round=0}} industry, with over 28,000 employees and 8,000 miles of oil pipeline.<ref name="LJW"/>
 
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==External links==
* [http://brandondutcher.blogspot.com/2006/10/todays-oklahoma-history-lesson_04.html Photograph showing Boots Adams with Frank Phillips and Phillips' wife]
{{external media |align=right|width=238px|image1=<span class="plainlinks">[http://ec2-184-169-145-138.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/sections/opinion/columnists/lost-bartlesville-day-president-came-town-and-love-lifetime%E2%80%A6.html Portrait of Boots Adams as Phillips' chairman]</span> Painted c.1964 by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (click on image 2)|image2=<span class="plainlinks">[http://ec2-184-169-145-138.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/sections/opinion/columnists/lost-bartlesville-day-president-came-town-and-love-lifetime%E2%80%A6.html What a Birthday Cake!]</span>|image3=<span class="plainlinks">[http://brandondutcher.blogspot.com/2006/10/todays-oklahoma-history-lesson_04.html Photograph showing Boots Adams with Frank Phillips and Phillips' wife]</span> }}
* <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.chemheritage.org/research/policy-center/oral-history-program/projects/rubber-matters/default.aspx Chemical Heritage Foundation / Home]</span>. chemheritage.org. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
* <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.phillips66.com/EN/about/Pages/index.aspx We Are Phillips 66 / About / Home]</span>. phillips66.com. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
 
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