J. P. Morgan

Known for

Acting

Gender

Male

Born

April 16, 1837

Age at death

75

Died

March 31, 1913

From

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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.