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Hughes was born in Humble, Texas, on 24 September 1905. His father was the outlaw oil wildcatter Howard Robard Hughes and his mother was a neurotic heiress, Allene Gano. The elder Hughes built up a large fortune by making oil drill bits and founding the Hughes Tool Company. Hughes's parents were extremely overprotective and knew how to manipulate the boy. Hughes spent his childhood being shuffled from one private school to another. He often engaged in strenuous physical activity as a boy and excelled in mathematics, physics, and golf. Tragedy struck Hughes early when both his parents died at an early age, his mother while in surgery and his father of a heart attack. Thus, at age eighteen, Hughes inherited a million dollars and his father's empire. To prove that he was old enough to run his father's business, Hughes married Houston socialite Ella Rice in 1924. They had a...
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