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JP Morgan Jr.

 

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Origin
Full Name:
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.

Born: September 7, 1867
Died: September 7, 1943
Location: Irvington, New York, U.S.
Father: J.P. Morgan Sr.
Mother: unknown

Education
Allston, MA: Harvard, 1889

Business
1913: Federal Reserve Banks
1917: Anglo American - Co-founder
JP Morgan Chase & Co.

War Financier
1899-1901: Anglo-Boer War
1914 Russia: $12,000,000
1915 France: $50,000,000
Great Britain: All munitions purchased from the United States were financed by JP Morgan.
Following the formation of the Federal Reserve, JP Morgan organized a syndicate of 2200 US banks to lend $500,000,000 to WWI Allies

 
 
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