City Bank of New York - National City Bank - Citibank (Apart of Citigroup)
Presidents
**Apr 2012 - Present - Michael E. O’Neill.
2009 to 2012 - Richard Parsons (connections inc. Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford)
2007 to 2009 - Winfried Bischoff
2007 to 2007 - Robert Rubin (Council on Foreign Relations)
2006 to 2007 - Charles Prince
1998 to 2006 - Sanford I. Well (Co-chair)
1984 to 2000 - John S. Reed
1970 to 1984 - Walter B. Wriston (Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta. Reagan’s economic board. VP GHWB S&B 1948. Presidential Medal of Freedom by GWB S&B 1968.)
1959 to 1967 - George S. Moore (sole representative of Onassis family financial interests in US.)
1952 to 1959 - James Stillman Rockefeller (Scroll and Key - Sister fraternity to Skull and Bones)
1948 to 1952 - Howard C. Sheperd
1940 to 1948 - William Gage Brady Jr. (worked at Bankers Trust)
Great Depression - 1929 to 1940 - Gordon S. Rentschler
1921 to 1929 - Charles E. Mitchel (leading up to great depression, the bank is the largest security issuing entity in the world)
1919 to 1921 - James Stillman (& Chairman) - Son of James Stillman (1891 to 1909)
1909 to 1919 - Frank A. Vanderlip (Involved in setting up Federal Reserve … Search mind map)
1907 - Panic of 1907.
1904 - Help finance the Panama Canal.
1865, the bank joined the national banking system of the United States under the National Bank Act and became The National City Bank of New York.
1891 to 1909 - James Stillman, becoming Chairman in 1909 to 1918.
The National Bank was transformed from a minor New York commerical banking institution to “the greatest bank in the Western Hemisphere” and the first American bank to have a worldwide branch system.
Stillman brought National City Bank to prominence by building its ties to other banks as well as large coporations and their leaders, and by engaging it on a large scale in investment banking and foreign trade finance. During the 1890’s Stillman formed alliances with the Rockefellers and Standard Oil, to the benefit of National City’s commerical and investment banking business, and with the private investment bankers Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Kuhn, Loeb was a natural ally for National City because it had the ability to originate security issues as well as European investment connnections, both of which National City at the time lacked.
By 1904, leaders of Standard Oil (Rockefeller), Union Pacific (E.H. Harriman, sons were S&B), American Sugar Refining, International Harvester (J.P.Morgan & Co), National Sugar, Armour & Co were represented on the bank’s board of directors.[4]
1882 to 1891 - Percy Pyne
1856 to 1882 - Moses Taylor. Son, Moses Taylor (S&K 1893)
1843 to 1856 - Gorham Worth
1837 - Ownership and Management of the bank was taken over by Mosos Taylor (a protege of John Jacob Astor)
1832 to 1843 - Thomas Bloodgood
1827 to 1832 - Isaac Wright
1825 to 1827 - Thomas Smith
1817 to 1825 - Peter Stagg
Aug 1813, with Osgood’s death (66 yrs old. member of American Philosophical Society founded by Benjamin Franklin), William Few became the President of the Bank.
1812 - War of 1812 - Financed War Bonds.
16 June 1812 - The City Bank of New York was founded. The first president of the City Bank was the statesman and retired Colonel, Samuel Osgood.
National Bank - Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed.
1970 - Charles Carroll Glover III (S&B 1940) - Director, Riggs National Bank.[2] (Great grandfather was President and contributed to the adoption of the Federal Reserve Act)
1967 to 1976 - Charles Edwin Lord II (S&B 1949) - President, CEO, Dir, Hartford National Corp, Hartford National Bank & Trust (CT).
1966 to 1969 - John Folsom Hallett (S&B 1934) - President, Harbor National Bank (Boston)
1958 to 1975 - Joseph (Joe) Hale Johnson (S&B 1935) - Associate Director, State National Bank of CT.
1955 to 1963 - Alfred Cowles III (S&B 1913) - Director, Continental IL National Bank & Trust Co, (Chicago).
David Charles Grimes (S&B 1948)
1964 to 1965 - President, Director, First Brentwood Corp.
1958 to 1964 - Vice President, Republic National Bank,(Dallas).
1951 - Joined the Republic National Bank (Dallas), as a clerk uin the petroleum department.
1952 to 1959 - James Stillman Rockefeller (S&K 1924). Married grandniece of Andrew Carnegie.
1941 to 1946 - James Paul Mills (S&B 1932) - Director, Middlebirg National Bank.
1928 to 1929 - Philip Golden Bartlett (S&B 1881) - Director of Richmond Hill National Bank.
1919 to 1921 - James Alexander Stillman. President of National City Bank. Daughter Anne Stillman, married Henry P. Davison Jr. (S&B 1920)
Wallace Delafield Simmons (S&B 1890)
1917 to 1919 - Third National Bank (when it consolidated with several others and became the First National Bank, of which he was a director until 1929)
1915 to 1929 - Philadelphia National Bank.
1910 to 1914 - National Bank of Commerce of St. Louis.
Since 1916 - Thomas Burr Osborne (S&B 1881) - Director of Second National Bank of New Haven.
Since 1914 - Samuel Brinckeroff Thorne (S&B 1896) - Chatham and Phoenix National Bank & Trust Company.
Since 1914 - Louis Kossuth Hull (S&B 1883) - Counsel for Security National Bank of Minneapolis and its successors, First and Security National Bank and First National Bank. (After Federal Reserve Act Signed)
1913 - Adrian Sabastian VandeGraaff (S&B 1881) - President Manufacturers National Bank, Treas Cty Rockford IL.
Norman Frederick Thompson (S&B 1881) - 1905 to 1930, President, 1930 to 1931, Chairman of the board of Manufacturers National Bank & Trust Company.
Francis Parsons (S&B 1893) - 1904 to 1912 - Secretary, trustee, and trust officer Security Trust Company, Hartford, 1912 to 1927, Vice-President (in 1923 company became U.S. Security Trust Company and in 1927 the Hartford National Bank & Trust Company)
1904 to 1915 - William Kent (S&B 1887) - Genoa National Bank.
Henry Manning Sage (S&B 1890) - 1901 to 1929, Director, 1910 to 1916, First Vice-President of New York State National Bank of Albany.
1886 to 1929 - Philo Carroll Fuller (S&B 1881) - Director, Vice-President for a time of National City Bank and its successor, Grand Rapids National Bank.
Walter Crafts Witherbee (S&B 1880) - President of the Citizens National Bank in Port Henry, as well as a Director, President of the First National Bank.
Thomas Clairborne Miller (S&B 1970) - Trust Dept, Riggs National Bank (DC)
Ralph Lynwood Straw (S&B 1964) - In house Counsel for First National Bank of New Jersey.
Roger S. Ahlbrandt Jr. (S&B 1963) - Economist for Pittsburgh National Bank.
William James Connelly Jr. (S&B 1948) - Director, Mellon National Bank & Trust Co.
Edward W. Andrews Jr. (S&B 1947) - Father was early president of Seattle National Bank.
William M. Boulos (Bouliaratis) (S&B 1947) - Assistant Vice President, National Bank of Commerce (Seattle).
John Warner Field (S&B 1937) - Director, CT National Bank.
Lester Armour (S&K 1918) - Chairman, Chicago National Bank.
James Gregory Smith (S&B 1912) - Welden National Bank(VT).
John Perrin (S&B 1879) - converted his private bank into the Indiana National Bank of Lafayette, of which he was President. reverting to Perrin National Bank after charter expired. Son John Bates Perrin (S&B 1909) died age 25.
Charles Seymour (S&B 1908) - Director, National Bank.
Grosvenor Ely (S&B 1906) - Director, Thames National Bank.
Stuart Bruen Sutphin (S&B 1903) - Director, National Bank.
Mason Tyler Adams (S&B 1899) - Director, Thomaston National Bank.
William Bart Berger (Berzelius 1893) - Colorado National Bank. (Relative of Jamot Brown S&B1899)
John Loomer Hall (S&B 1894) - Director, Merchants National Bank of Boston.
Philip Hamilton McMillan (S&B 1894) - First and Old Detroit National Bank.
Sherwood Bissell Ives (S&B 1893) - Father was President of The Western National Bank.
George Greene Martin (S&B 1893) - National Bank of Commerce in St. Louis.
James William Husted (S&B 1892) - Peekskill National Bank.
Norman James (S&B 1890) - Citizen’s National Bank.
Alfred Cowles (S&B 1886) - Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company.
Maxwell Evarts (S&B 1884) - President of the State National Bank of Windsor.
Joseph Robinson Parrott (S&B 1883) - Vice President, Florida National Bank.
Charles Seward Foote (S&B 1883) - Father Wallace Turner Foote was President First National Bank of Wyoming.
Walter Irving Badger (S&B 1882) - President Everett National Bank of Boston.
Danford Newton Barney (S&B 1881) - Director Hartford National Bank & Trust Company.
[2] - Citigroup.com - Timeline
[2,1] - 1820 John Jacob Astor strongly opposed renewing the charter of the Bank of the United States in 1811. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the bank had closed his account and refused him further credit. Two decades later he was a customer and then, records suggest, rescuer of City Bank, by which time most of his fortune was in real estate. Astor also held shares in Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co., which would become closely associated with City Bank as the century progressed. When it was published in 1845, three years before Astor’s death, the sixth edition of Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City estimated Astor’s wealth at $25 million.
[4] - Amazon - International Banking 1870 - page 68
[5] - Winston Churchill opened a First National City account in 1931
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