J. P. Morgan

Born

1837-04-16

Died

1913-03-31

Birthplace

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Biography

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.