J. P. Morgan

✶April 17, 1837

†March 31, 1913

No one has lit a candle yet. Be the first.

About their life

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.

American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article J. P. Morgan on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.