Clayton Williams

Golden Ring of Freedom Member

Biography

Clayton Williams, Jr. grew up in Fort Stockton, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station in 1954 with a degree in animal husbandry and then served in the U.S. Army. In 1957, he followed in the business of his father, beginning in the oil fields of West Texas as a lease broker. Many of his companies were petroleum-related with interests in the exploration and production of natural gas and transportation and extraction of natural gas and natural gas liquids. In 1993, he took Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. public. Williams has also dabbled in politics, and made an unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial bid in Texas in 1990. By his own account, Williams has donated a total of more than $3 million to the National Rifle Association. He and his wide Modesta were inducted into the NRA’s Golden Ring of Freedom in 2013, a small circle of major donors. He once declared, “The enemies of the National Rifle Association are enemies of mine.”

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