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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Peter Ramon "Pete" Arguindegui, Jr.
| image=Peter Arguindegui of TX.jpg
|nationality=[[Mexican-American]]
| office=Member of the [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], City Council
| party=
| term_start=1960
| term_end=1976
| birth_date=September 12, 1931
| birth_place=Laredo, Texas
| death_date=August 3, 2014 (aged 83)
| death_place=Laredo, Texas
| resting_place=Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Laredo
| occupation=[[Petroleum]] industrialist
| spouse=Ethel Martha Leyendecker Arguindegui
| children=Peter Arguindegui, III<br>
Maria Teresa Arguindegui<br>
Maria Estella Arguindegui-Johnson<br>
Alfonso Luis Arguindegui<br>
Ethel Maria Aguindegui<br>
Seven grandchildren<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Pedro, Sr., and Marina A. Arguindegui
| alma_mater=[[Texas A&M University]]
| religion=[[Roman Catholic]]}}
'''Peter Ramon Arguindegui, Jr.,''' known as '''Pete Arguindegui''' (September 12, 1931 – August 3, 2014), was [[petroleum]] industrialist, [[politician]], civic leader, and philanthropist in his native [[Laredo]], [[Texas]].
==Biography==
===Business===
A 1953 graduate of [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]] and a veteran of the armed forces, Arguindegui became president and, finally, chairman-emeritus of his family-owned Arguindegui Oil Company. The firm was founded in 1942 by his father, Pedro Arguindegui, Sr (1902-1991), who was originally a commission agent for the Continental Oil Company<ref name=lmt/> and started his own Conoco distributorship. In the 1970s, the company expanded into commercial fuels and serviced drilling operations in South Texas.<ref name=oilcompany>{{cite web|url=http://madmax.lmtonline.com/textarchives/042505/b4.htm|title=Arguindegui Oil keeps community running|date=April 25, 2005|publisher='The 'Laredo Morning Times''|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref> His mother was the former Marina Lilia Acevedo (1906-1973). Arguindegui is among the Aggie 100, a list of fastest-growing companies owned and operated by TAMU alumni.<ref name=lmt/> One of the largest petroleum product suppliers in Texas, the company employs about 250 people in Laredo. Through its AOC Holding Company, Arguindegui owned and operated several convenience stores under the named ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy Corporation Laredo, Freer, and Zapata, Texas..<ref name=oilcompany/><ref name=hrcuellar/>
===Local politics===
nonpartisan body under Texas law which then operated under the mayor-council form of government. In 1982, the city switched to the city manager format. During Arguindegui's time on the council, the city established the Laredo Civic Center on San Bernardo Street, erected the Juárez–Lincoln International Bridge over the [[Rio Grande]], and converted the former Laredo Air Force Base into the now previous site of Laredo International Airport.<ref name=lmt>Louis San Miguel, "Well known Laredoan dies: Burial Mass set for St. Patrick's Church," ''The Laredo Morning Times,'' August 6, 2014, pp. 1, 12A.</ref> Salo Otero, a former sports editor for ''The Laredo Morning Times'' recalled Arguindegui as a "big, big voice on the city council ... He would say, 'Remember: I'm only one vote I cannot change Laredo by myself.'"<ref name=lmt/>
===Civic affairs===
Arguindegui served at various times as president of the Laredo Jaycees, the Kiwanis International, the Laredo Country Club, and Border Olympics, in which capacity he instituted the large annual men's Laredo Border Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute Golf Tournament. [[Odie Arambula]], another ''Laredo Morning Times'' veteran journalist, termed Arguindegui "probably the best amateur golfer in town".<ref name=lmt/> He once played the part of [[George Washington]] in Laredo's popular Washington's Birthday Celebration.<ref name=lmt/> From 1984 to 1994, he was a director of the former Union National Bank of Laredo. Thereafter, he was a director of the former Laredo National Bank, since Compass Bank. Arguindegui was a member of the Laredo [[Chamber of Commerce]]<ref name=oilcompany/> and was active in the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the [[United Way]].<ref name=hrcuellar/>
===Death and legacy===
Arguindegui died in Laredo at the age of eighty-two. A mass of Christian burial was held on August 6, 2014 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Del Mar Boulevard. Interment followed in Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Laredo,<ref>"Peter Arguindedgui, Jr. (1931-2014)," ''Laredo Morning Times,'' August 6, 2014, p. 10A.</ref> where his father, Pedro, Sr. (1902-1991) and mother, Marina A. Arguindegui (1906-1973), are also interred.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Arguindegui&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&|title=Arguindegui burials|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref> Arguindegui and his wife, the former Ethel Martha Leyendecker (born c. 1938), have five children, Peter Arguindegui, III (the managing partner at Lobo Logistics of Laredo), and wife Amelie, Maria Teresa Arguindegui, Maria Estella Arguindegui-Johnson and husband, Steve, Alfonso Luis Arguindegui and wife, Alejandra, and Ethel Maria Aguindegui.<ref>"Peter Arguindegui," ''The Laredo Morning Times,'' August 5, 2014, p. 10A.</ref>
Arguindegui and his brother and business partner, Carlos H. Arguindegui (born c. 1933), established with an initial $25,000 the Arguindegui Oil Company Endowed Scholarship at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. The funds subsidize business majors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamiu.edu/adminis/vpia/endowments/scholarships/|title=Arguindegui Oil Company Endowed Scholarship|publisher=tamiu.edu|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref>
Saul Otero called Arguindegui "a great family man and businessman ... a great promoter and ambassador of Laredo".<ref name=lmt/> In 2009, [[U.S. Representative]] Henry Roberto Cuellar of Texas's 28th congressional district hailed the Arguindegui family in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, having noted its business success and commitment to philanthropy.<ref name=hrcuellar>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HsCh8Mj2XlYC&pg=PA301&lpg=PA301&dq=Peter+R.+Arguindegui&source=bl&ots=6FmT22AFT9&sig=ehWoZ01sbXaz2IsFLfbVe7Pv7_s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oEXiU4-dLM34oASGuYBA&ved=0CFgQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=Peter%20R.%20Arguindegui&f=false|title=Recognizing the Family Business, AOC Holding Company|author=Henry Roberto Cuellar|date=July 22, 2009|publisher=''[[Congressional Record]]''|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref>
==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Arguindegui, Peter}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
| name=Peter Ramon "Pete" Arguindegui, Jr.
| image=Peter Arguindegui of TX.jpg
|nationality=[[Mexican-American]]
| office=Member of the [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], City Council
| party=
| term_start=1960
| term_end=1976
| birth_date=September 12, 1931
| birth_place=Laredo, Texas
| death_date=August 3, 2014 (aged 83)
| death_place=Laredo, Texas
| resting_place=Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Laredo
| occupation=[[Petroleum]] industrialist
| spouse=Ethel Martha Leyendecker Arguindegui
| children=Peter Arguindegui, III<br>
Maria Teresa Arguindegui<br>
Maria Estella Arguindegui-Johnson<br>
Alfonso Luis Arguindegui<br>
Ethel Maria Aguindegui<br>
Seven grandchildren<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Pedro, Sr., and Marina A. Arguindegui
| alma_mater=[[Texas A&M University]]
| religion=[[Roman Catholic]]}}
'''Peter Ramon Arguindegui, Jr.,''' known as '''Pete Arguindegui''' (September 12, 1931 – August 3, 2014), was [[petroleum]] industrialist, [[politician]], civic leader, and philanthropist in his native [[Laredo]], [[Texas]].
==Biography==
===Business===
A 1953 graduate of [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]] and a veteran of the armed forces, Arguindegui became president and, finally, chairman-emeritus of his family-owned Arguindegui Oil Company. The firm was founded in 1942 by his father, Pedro Arguindegui, Sr (1902-1991), who was originally a commission agent for the Continental Oil Company<ref name=lmt/> and started his own Conoco distributorship. In the 1970s, the company expanded into commercial fuels and serviced drilling operations in South Texas.<ref name=oilcompany>{{cite web|url=http://madmax.lmtonline.com/textarchives/042505/b4.htm|title=Arguindegui Oil keeps community running|date=April 25, 2005|publisher='The 'Laredo Morning Times''|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref> His mother was the former Marina Lilia Acevedo (1906-1973). Arguindegui is among the Aggie 100, a list of fastest-growing companies owned and operated by TAMU alumni.<ref name=lmt/> One of the largest petroleum product suppliers in Texas, the company employs about 250 people in Laredo. Through its AOC Holding Company, Arguindegui owned and operated several convenience stores under the named ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy Corporation Laredo, Freer, and Zapata, Texas..<ref name=oilcompany/><ref name=hrcuellar/>
===Local politics===
nonpartisan body under Texas law which then operated under the mayor-council form of government. In 1982, the city switched to the city manager format. During Arguindegui's time on the council, the city established the Laredo Civic Center on San Bernardo Street, erected the Juárez–Lincoln International Bridge over the [[Rio Grande]], and converted the former Laredo Air Force Base into the now previous site of Laredo International Airport.<ref name=lmt>Louis San Miguel, "Well known Laredoan dies: Burial Mass set for St. Patrick's Church," ''The Laredo Morning Times,'' August 6, 2014, pp. 1, 12A.</ref> Salo Otero, a former sports editor for ''The Laredo Morning Times'' recalled Arguindegui as a "big, big voice on the city council ... He would say, 'Remember: I'm only one vote I cannot change Laredo by myself.'"<ref name=lmt/>
===Civic affairs===
Arguindegui served at various times as president of the Laredo Jaycees, the Kiwanis International, the Laredo Country Club, and Border Olympics, in which capacity he instituted the large annual men's Laredo Border Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute Golf Tournament. [[Odie Arambula]], another ''Laredo Morning Times'' veteran journalist, termed Arguindegui "probably the best amateur golfer in town".<ref name=lmt/> He once played the part of [[George Washington]] in Laredo's popular Washington's Birthday Celebration.<ref name=lmt/> From 1984 to 1994, he was a director of the former Union National Bank of Laredo. Thereafter, he was a director of the former Laredo National Bank, since Compass Bank. Arguindegui was a member of the Laredo [[Chamber of Commerce]]<ref name=oilcompany/> and was active in the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the [[United Way]].<ref name=hrcuellar/>
===Death and legacy===
Arguindegui died in Laredo at the age of eighty-two. A mass of Christian burial was held on August 6, 2014 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Del Mar Boulevard. Interment followed in Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Laredo,<ref>"Peter Arguindedgui, Jr. (1931-2014)," ''Laredo Morning Times,'' August 6, 2014, p. 10A.</ref> where his father, Pedro, Sr. (1902-1991) and mother, Marina A. Arguindegui (1906-1973), are also interred.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Arguindegui&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&|title=Arguindegui burials|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref> Arguindegui and his wife, the former Ethel Martha Leyendecker (born c. 1938), have five children, Peter Arguindegui, III (the managing partner at Lobo Logistics of Laredo), and wife Amelie, Maria Teresa Arguindegui, Maria Estella Arguindegui-Johnson and husband, Steve, Alfonso Luis Arguindegui and wife, Alejandra, and Ethel Maria Aguindegui.<ref>"Peter Arguindegui," ''The Laredo Morning Times,'' August 5, 2014, p. 10A.</ref>
Arguindegui and his brother and business partner, Carlos H. Arguindegui (born c. 1933), established with an initial $25,000 the Arguindegui Oil Company Endowed Scholarship at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. The funds subsidize business majors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamiu.edu/adminis/vpia/endowments/scholarships/|title=Arguindegui Oil Company Endowed Scholarship|publisher=tamiu.edu|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref>
Saul Otero called Arguindegui "a great family man and businessman ... a great promoter and ambassador of Laredo".<ref name=lmt/> In 2009, [[U.S. Representative]] Henry Roberto Cuellar of Texas's 28th congressional district hailed the Arguindegui family in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, having noted its business success and commitment to philanthropy.<ref name=hrcuellar>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HsCh8Mj2XlYC&pg=PA301&lpg=PA301&dq=Peter+R.+Arguindegui&source=bl&ots=6FmT22AFT9&sig=ehWoZ01sbXaz2IsFLfbVe7Pv7_s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oEXiU4-dLM34oASGuYBA&ved=0CFgQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=Peter%20R.%20Arguindegui&f=false|title=Recognizing the Family Business, AOC Holding Company|author=Henry Roberto Cuellar|date=July 22, 2009|publisher=''[[Congressional Record]]''|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arguindegui, Peter}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Catholics]]