Morgan: American Financier
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"History has remembered J. Pierpont Morgan as a complex and contradictory figure, part robber baron and part patron saint. Now this magisterial biography, based extensively on new material, draws a definitive, full-scale portrait of Morgan's tumultuous life both in and out of the public earned his reputation as ""the Napoleon of Wall Street"" by reorganizing the nation's railroads and creating some of its greatest industrial trusts, including General Electric and U.S. Steel. At a time when the United States had no Federal Reserve System, he appointed himself a one-man central bank. He had two wives, three yachts, four ch
JPMORGAN CHASE CEO HISTORY: FROM MORGAN TO DIMON
LIST OF LEADERS & CEOS OF JPMORGAN CHASE
- Junius Morgan ()
- J. Pierpont Morgan ()
- J.P. "Jack" Morgan Jr. ()
- Thomas W. Lamont ()
- Russell C. Leffingwell ()
- George Whitney ()
- Henry C. Alexander ()
- Thomas S. Gates Jr. ()
- John Meyer Jr. ()
- Ellmore C. Patterson ()
- Walter Hines Page II ()
- Lewis Thompson Preston ()
- Sir Dennis Weatherstone ()
- Douglas A. Warner III ()
- William B. Harrison Jr. ()
- Jamie Dimon (present)
JUNIUS MORGAN (FOUNDER OF J.S. MORGAN & CO.)
Junius Spencer Morgan established J.S. Morgan & Co. in London in , taking George Peabody's merchant bank into a powerful trans-Atlantic financial institution.
While his work laid foundations that would later contribute to JPMorgan Chase through various mergers, he never led that specific institution, instead working to build J.S. Morgan & Co. into a respected firm that operated across London, New York, Philadelphia, and Paris until his death in
PIERPONT MORGAN (FOUNDER OF J.P. MORGAN & CO.)
J.P. Morgan is well known in American finance through his New York banking firm.
His firm consolidated rail
J.P. Morgan: History, Achievements and Facts
J.P. Morgan &#; History and facts
With holdings in many industries, ranging from railroads, steel, and iron, J.P. Morgan was an extremely influential New York-based financier. Morgan and his associates on a couple of occasions single-handedly steered the United States from economic crisis, including the Panic of It is for this and many other reasons why J.P. Morgan is considered one of the most influential bankers and financiers of the 19th century and early 20th century.
The article below takes an in-depth look into the life, family history and major accomplishments of J.P. Morgan.
Fast Facts
Born: John Pierpont Morgan
Birthday: April 17,
Place of birth: Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died: March 31,
Aged: 75
Place of death: Rome, Italy
Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Education: The English High School of Boston, Bellerive School in La Tour-de-Peilz in Switzerland, University of Göttingen
Net worth of his estate: $68 million (about $ billion in today’s dollars)
Family
Parents: Juliet Pierpont and Junius Spencer Morgan
Spouses: Amelia Sturges (marri
36d. The New Tycoons: J. Pierpont Morgan
J.P. Morgan invested in everything from Thomas Edison's electric company to railroads and steel companies to insurance firms.
Child of Privilege
Not all of the tycoons of the Gilded Age were rags-to-riches stories. J. Pierpont Morgan was born into a family of great wealth. His father had already made a name for himself in the banking industry. With Morgan's family resources, he enjoyed the finest business education money could buy.
He did not scratch and claw his way to the top of any corporate ladder. His father arranged for an executive track position at one of New York's finest banks. Regardless of his family's advantages, Morgan had a great mind of his own. He set out to conquer the financial world, and conquer it he did.
Morgan the Banker
Morgan's first business ventures were in banking. By , he had already established his own foreign exchange office. He knew the power of investment. Not content to control just the banking industry, he bought many smaller ventures to make money.
During the Civil War, he paid the legally allowed fee to purchase a substitute soldier and evaded military service. Morgan made handsome profits
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