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J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as JPMorgan Chase & Co., he was the driving force behind a wave of industrial consolidations in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.
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business · American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913) · entrepreneur · art collector · banker · financier · patron of the arts · also J. P. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan, J. Pierpont [II] Morgan, J.P. [I] Morgan, J. Pierpont, Sr. Morgan
Born 17 April 1837 · Died 31 March 1913 · Q54168
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2026· 6 entries
Morningstar: Salesforce's stock gets a boost as J.P. Morgan says AI fears are overblown
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The Guardian: JP Morgan boss warns of ‘consequences’ if Burnham taxes banks
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The Guardian: JP Morgan boss pressed by US senator about contact with Jeffrey Epstein
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The Guardian: JP Morgan could scrap £3bn London HQ if Starmer is replaced by PM ‘hostile to banks’
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Reported claimRated False. The date is an estimate of when most oil shipments from the Gulf would stop arriving in Australia following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. · AAP
AAP rated the claim “J.P. Morgan has reported Australia will run out of fuel on April 20.” False. The date is an estimate of when most oil shipments from the Gulf would stop arriving in Australia following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz..
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2024· 2 entries
Morgan was so impressed by the proposal for such a conference that he contributed $100,000 (equivalent to $2.4 million in 2024) to finance the commission's work.
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Dollars), of which about $30 million represented his share in the New York and Philadelphia banks
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2022· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “The sinking of the Titanic was somehow orchestrated by its owner, American financier J.P. Morgan, in order to kill three prominent businessmen who opposed the formation of the Federal Reserve.” False.
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1974· 1 entry
And re-released as In the Land of the War Canoes
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1942· 1 entry
And served in the Pacific Ocean as a survey ship until she was decommissioned and scrapped in 1944
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1936· 1 entry
Created the mascot for the game, have credited J
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1930· 1 entry
With the stipulation the yacht be used for survey work and was renamed USC&GS Oceanographer
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1917· 1 entry
Jack donated a substantial portion of his father's collection, which consisted of thousands of objects, estimated at 40% of the total, to the Metropolitan
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1913· 6 entries
Died 1913-03-31.
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In his sleep at the Grand Hotel Plaza in Rome, Italy
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That Morgan fell ill to "a long sinking spell" which included symptoms of extreme weakness, nervousness after his realization of the inability to take in food due to a paralysis of the muscles in his throat; no other org
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“I owe the public nothing.”
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At the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, J
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And the entire collection filled the second floor of a new wing at the Metropolitan in 1914
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1910· 2 entries
With the publication of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes
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The General Convention of the Episcopal Church established a commission, proposed by Bishop Charles Brent, to implement a world conference of churches to address their differences in their "faith and order"
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1904· 2 entries
The Supreme Court dissolved the Northern Security company; though Morgan did not lose money, his all-powerful political reputation suffered
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And directed its emphasis to the pursuit of important, original works
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1902· 2 entries
Roosevelt ordered Attorney General Philander Knox to sue to break it up
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When he attempted to build and operate a line on the London Underground
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1901· 3 entries
Giving Morgan a trophy in gratitude of his purchase of the site
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A compromise was reached between Morgan, New York financier E
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Forming the United States Steel Corporation
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1900· 2 entries
The inventor Nikola Tesla convinced Morgan he could build a trans-Atlantic wireless communication system based on his theories of Earth and atmospheric electrical conduction (eventually sited at Wardenclyffe) that would
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Morgan began talks to purchase Andrew Carnegie's steel business and merge it with several other steel, coal, mining and shipping firms
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1898· 2 entries
To discuss the construction of a new clubhouse
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For use as a gunboat during the Spanish-American War and renamed USS Gloucester
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1895· 1 entry
Retaining close ties with Drexel & Company of Philadelphia; Morgan, Harjes & Company of Paris; and J
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1894· 1 entry
Where they were given a favorite clock of Morgan's
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1889· 1 entry
And 1890 which paved the way for a wave of consolidations in the early 20th century
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1887· 1 entry
Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act
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1885· 1 entry
Reorganized the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad and leased it to the New York Central
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1883· 1 entry
Morgan successfully marketed a large part of William H
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1882· 1 entry
It became the first electrically lit private residence in America
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1865· 1 entry
Morgan married Frances Louisa "Fanny" Tracy (1842–1924), whom he met at St
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1864· 1 entry
George Peabody retired completely from the rechristened J
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1862· 1 entry
Morgan made his cousin, James Goodwin, a partner
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1856· 2 entries
His father sent him to Bellerive, a school in the Swiss village of La Tour-de-Peilz, where he gained fluency in French
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Studied at University of Göttingen (1854–1856).
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1854· 1 entry
Studied at Boston English High School (1853–1854).
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1853· 1 entry
By John Jay Phelps and purchased by Morgan in 1882
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1852· 1 entry
Studied at Boston English High School (1851–1852).
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1851· 1 entry
Studied at Cheshire Academy (1850–1851).
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1847· 1 entry
When Morgan was ten years old, his grandfather Joseph Morgan died and left the family a large fortune
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1837· 2 entries
In Hartford, Connecticut, to Junius Spencer Morgan (1813–1890), of the influential Morgan family, and Juliet Pierpont (1816–1884)
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Born 1837-04-17.
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