# Reese Rowling

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| name        = Reese Rowling
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| birth_name  = Reese McIntosh Rowling
| birth_date  = 1928
| birth_place = [Waycross](/source/Waycross%2C_Georgia), Georgia, U.S.
| death_date  = 2001
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| alma_mater  = [Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy](/source/University_of_Texas_at_El_Paso)
| occupation  = businessman and geologist
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| known_for   = co-founded Tana Oil and Gas Corporation with William E. Colson
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| children    = [Robert Rowling](/source/Robert_Rowling)
| parents     = Harry Herschel Rowling<br> Lily Mae Rowling
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'''Reese McIntosh Rowling''' (1928–2001) was an American businessman and geologist, who co-founded Tana Oil and Gas Corporation with William E Colson in Corpus Christi, Texas, which was eventually taken over by [Texaco](/source/Texaco).<ref name="UTEP">{{cite news|last1=Ramirez|first1=Cindy|title=Reese Rowling: Geologist finds treasures abound|url=http://ia.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=41519|accessdate=13 June 2017|work=NOVA Quarterly Fall 2006|publisher=University of Texas at El Paso|date=2006}}</ref>

He was born in 1928 in [Waycross](/source/Waycross%2C_Georgia), Georgia, the son of Harry Herschel Rowling, a railway worker, and his wife Lily Mae Rowling.<ref name="UTEP"/> In 1951 he graduated from the [Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy](/source/University_of_Texas_at_El_Paso) (now UTEP).<ref name="UTEP"/>

In 1972, he co-founded Tana Oil and Gas Corporation with William E. Colson in Corpus Christi, Texas<ref name="UTEP"/>

He was the father of [Robert Rowling](/source/Robert_Rowling).<ref name="UTEP"/>

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