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J. P. Morgan

1837 - 1913

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John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) 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 J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidations in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the course of his career on Wall Street, Morgan spearheaded the formation of several prominent multinational corporations including U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. P. Morgan has received more than 11,796,330 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). J. P. Morgan is the 34th most popular businessperson, the 315th most popular biography from United States (up from 368th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Businessperson.

J.P. Morgan was an American financier and banker who founded the company that later became J.P. Morgan Chase. He was responsible for organizing the 1901 merger of the Carnegie Steel Company and other steel and railroad companies to form U.S. Steel. He also helped to form the United States Steel Corporation, which was the world's first billion-dollar corporation. He was also a key player in the formation of the Federal Reserve System.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, J. P. Morgan ranks 34 out of 847. Before him are Muhammad Yunus, Adolf Dassler, Carlos Slim, P. T. Barnum, Jules Rimet, and Liliane Bettencourt. After him are Philip Kotler, João Havelange, Guccio Gucci, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Andrew Carnegie, and Soichiro Honda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, J. P. Morgan ranks 4. Before him are Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Alois Hitler, and Johannes Diderik van der Waals. After him are Grover Cleveland, Fredrik Bajer, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Mily Balakirev, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Cosima Wagner, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Marie François Sadi Carnot. Among people deceased in 1913, J. P. Morgan ranks 5. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, George I of Greece, Rudolf Diesel, and Alfred Russel Wallace. After him are Alfred von Schlieffen, Lesya Ukrainka, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Menelik II, Sophia of Nassau, Tobias Asser, and August Bebel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. P. Morgan ranks 315 out of 20,380. Before him are B.B. King (1925), Norbert Wiener (1894), Eli Whitney (1765), Rita Hayworth (1918), J. Edgar Hoover (1895), and Nina Simone (1933). After him are Claude Shannon (1916), James Buchanan (1791), Grover Cleveland (1837), Paul Samuelson (1915), George Westinghouse (1846), and Henry Miller (1891).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, J. P. Morgan ranks 14. Before him are Tim Cook (1960), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), David Rockefeller (1915), Steve Ballmer (1956), Colonel Sanders (1890), and P. T. Barnum (1810). After him are Philip Kotler (1931), Hugh Hefner (1926), J. Paul Getty (1892), Bernie Madoff (1938), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), and Ray Kroc (1902).

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