J. P. Morgan

J. P. Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan (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 personal 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. Steel, International Harvester, and General Electric. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. P. Morgan has received more than 10,972,353 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). J. P. Morgan is the 34th most popular businessperson (down from 28th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from United States (down from 332nd in 2019) and the 15th 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.