John Pierpont Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1837. The son of a successful businessman, Morgan would become one of the most powerful men in America. Growing up wealthy, Morgan was sent to private schools and quickly began his career in the financial world. Morgan revolutionized the role of a businessman in the private sector in America. ... In fact, Morgan became so powerful that two of his largest conglomerates were questioned about anti trust violations. ... Morgan first entered the financial world at the age of twenty when he began working at Duncan, Sherman and Company, a brokerage in New York. At this point Morgan was an unpaid intern, learning all he could about economics and America’s financial system. From that point he moved up in the world several times, until finally in 1861 he became Managing Partner at Drexel, Morgan & Company. ... Morgan & Company in 1895. ... Morgan had a new idea about how his firm was going to handle business.