Carol Holding

Owner, The Sinclair Companies

The Holding family are behind storied ski resorts Sun Valley and Snowbasin and also own hotels, nearly 400,000 acres of land and Sinclair Oil a privately held company that drills for oil and gas and operates refineries and pipelines. The fortune was created by Robert Earl Holding who started out managing the Little America motel in Wyoming in the 1950s. After he died aged 86, his wife Carol and three children took over the business. Their family is worth $2.5 billion according to Forbes. As the Holding empire grew Robert Earl bough a Mobil refinery in Casper Wyoming in the 1960s, followed by Sinclair Oil in 1976. The company now has more than 2,700 service stations mostly located in the West and Midwest.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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Romney Victory

• 1 contribution · 50,000 USD (Aug 7 '12)

Republican National Committee U.S. political committee that leads the Republican Party of the U.S., a/k/a The Grand Ol' Party/GOP

• 1 contribution · 30,800 USD ('12)

Common Values PAC

• 4 contributions · 20,000 USD (Aug 19 '19→Mar 15 '22)

Robert Bishop US Representative from Utah (2003-present)

• 9 contributions · 17,000 USD ('04→Sep 17 '15)

Crapo Victory Cmte

• 3 contributions · 15,000 USD (Mar 13 '20→Feb 28 '22)

American Fuels and Petrochemical Manufacturers Association Political Action Committee (Afpmpac)

• 3 contributions · 15,000 USD (Mar 29 '12→Mar 31 '15)

Alliance for the West

• 3 contributions · 12,500 USD ('04→May 26 '06)

Mike Crapo US Senator from Idaho (1999-present); former US Representative (1993-1999)

• 7 contributions · 10,800 USD (Sep 9 '98→Aug 28 '15)

Jim Matheson Former US Representative from Utah

• 6 contributions · 10,700 USD ('04→Sep 30 '11)

Thom Tillis Nc Victory Committee 2020

• 1 contribution · 10,000 USD (Oct 9 '20)

Family

R. Earl Holding CEO, Sinclair Oil

• husband ('52→'13)*

Kathleen Holding

• daughter

Anne Holding Peterson One of three children of Mormon billionaires Robert Earl and Carol Holding - who built or operated multiple companies including Little America and Sinclair Oil (now REH Co.)

• daughter