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Integrating State (Georgia) And National Legal History, James L. Hunt
Integrating State (Georgia) And National Legal History, James L. Hunt
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Chapter in Teaching Legal History: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Robert M. Jarvis, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing (2014).
Relationship Banker : Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, And American Business, 1916-1959, James L. Hunt
Relationship Banker : Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, And American Business, 1916-1959, James L. Hunt
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In 1916, Eugene W. Stetson, a thirty-five year old banker from Macon, Georgia, became a vice-president with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a 'Morgan Bank'. Although by this time Pierpont Morgan was dead, Guaranty still resided fully within the Morgan firm's orbit, its broader policies controlled by the votes of Morgan partners. Stetson took full advantage of the Guaranty-Morgan opportunity. Between 1916 and his death in 1959, he became president and chairman of Guaranty. He survived the booms and busts of World War I and its aftermath, the stock-crazed 1920s, the transformation of banking in the Depression, and …