# J. Howard Pew > [!note] Stub — fill out President of Sun Oil Company (Sunoco) and a major financier of conservative, anti–[[New Deal]], and religious-right causes. A longtime friend and backer of [[Robert Welch]], founder of the [[John Birch Society]]. Dave Troy names him among the industrialists in the orbit of the 1933 [[Business Plot]]. Expand with the Pew family / Pew Charitable Trusts background.