Thanks to Jackie James for this is a picture of I.H. Kempner, Jr., Presidnet of Imperial Sugar Company. Kempner Field is named for him. He died in 1953, and William H. Louviere, Sr. succeeded him.
He had significant influence on Sugar Land. He proposed consolidating SLISD with Missouri City ISD in 1947, but few people were prepared to take that step at that time. When doctors diagnosed his terminal cancer, he spent his remaining months writing a detailed, expansive plan for Imperial Sugar, Sugarland Industries, and Sugar Land. He planned the conversion of Sugar Land from a company town to an incorporated municipality. He seems to have been a very farsighted & principled man.
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