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Lader, Philip
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Philip Lader's
education includes: Duke University (Phi Beta
Kappa), The University of Michigan (M.A., History),
graduate studies in law at Oxford University, and
Harvard Law School (J.D.). He has been awarded
honorary doctorates by 14 American and British
universities and colleges. President of Sea Pines
Company and Executive Vice President of the late Sir
James Goldsmith’s US holding company. His education
includes a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School,
a master of arts degree in history from the
University of Michigan, a bachelor of arts degree
(Phi Beta Kappa) from Duke University, as well as
graduate studies in law at Oxford University. In
1981 Lader founded the Renaissance Weekends. His
wife, Linda LeSourd Lader, is President of the
Renaissance Institute. Between 1991 and 1993 he was
president of the controversial first private
university in Australia, Bond University. White
House Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy Director for
Management of the Office of Management and Budget
1993-1994. From October 1994 until 1997 he was the
Administrator of the U.S. Small Business
Administration. US Ambassador to Britain 1997-2001.
As ex-ambassador, almost reduced to tears in a
British show 2 days after 911. Lader tried to
express his sadness over the attacks when a number
of audience members had shouted him down to voice
their anti-US opinions. Lader is an Honorary Fellow
of Pembroke College, Oxford University, and London
Business School, an Honorary Bencher of the Middle
Temple, and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and Chief Executives Organization.
Currently a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley, a
director of RAND, Marathon Oil and AES Corporations,
a member of the Council of Lloyds, a trustee of the
British Museum, and a board member of Saint Paul's
Cathedral, the Windsor Leadership Trust, the Prince
of Wales' Trust and the British-American Business
Advisory Council. He is also a partner in the law
firm, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough.
Non-executive chairman of WPP since 2001, the
communications company that owns PR companies
including Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller, GCI,
and Cohn & Wolfe. |
Lamont, Thomas William |
chairman exec.
committee |
1870-1948 |
Harvard, reporter New
York Tribune in 1893, secretary Bankers Trust
Company 1903-1904, vice-president Bankers Trust
Company, partner J.P. Morgan & Co. 1911,
representative of the United States Treasury at the
WWI Paris peace talks in 1919, director of the First
National Bank of New York, became chairman of J.P.
Morgan & Company when Jack Morgan died in 1943,
director U.S. Steel, A.T. & San Francisco Railway;
International Agricultural Corporation, chairman
International Consortium for Assistance to China,
honorary chairman associated Harvard Clubs, arranged
a $100 million loan to Mussolini in 1926. Has been
described as one of the most influential persons of
his time. According to Carroll Quigley, he and his
son were primary sponsors of the Institute for
Pacific Relations (IPR). |
Lamont, Gordon |
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1893-dead |
Cousin of Pilgrims
Corliss and Thomas Lamont, director Lamont, Corliss
& Company 1925-1951, president of Dairy Industry
Supply Association 1944-1946, director Dairy Society
International, chairman Beryllium Corporation
1955-1958, director of Nestle, mayor of Jupiter
Island, Florida, 1967-1977. |
Lamont, Thomas Stilwell
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1899-dead |
Overseer of Harvard
University, joined J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1922, vice
chairman 1955-1958, director Phelps-Dodge
Corporation (the world's number two leading producer
of copper and molybdenum and is the world's largest
producer of continuous-cast copper rod), director
International Minerals & Chemicals, director Texas
Gulf Sulphur, director Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway, trustee Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching, president Phillips Exeter
Academy 1946-1956. |
Lamont, Corliss (*may
not have been a member, but certainly was as close
as you can get) |
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1902-1995 |
Son of Thomas W.
Lamont and younger brother of Thomas S. Lamont,
leading Socialist-Communist in the United States,
contributing editor to a publication called “Soviet
Russia Today”, professor of philosophy at Columbia
University 1928-1932, during the time when Pilgrim
president Nicholas Murray Butler was also the
president of Columbia university (who loved
totalitarian systems), chairman Congress of
American-Soviet Friendship, director American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), advisor to the American
Humanist Association 1939-1941, instructor at the
New School for Social Research 1940-1942 , member
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, wrote “Russia
Day By Day.”(1933), “You Might Like Socialism---A
Way of Life For Modern Man.” (1939) and “I Want To
Be Like Stalin” (1947), indicted for contempt of
Congress in 1956, but was rescued by a United States
Court of Appeals, member of the Foreign Policy
Association and the American Association for the
United Nations. He was accused by Senator Joseph
McCarthy of being "un-American". |
Lansing, Robert
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1864-1928 |
His father-in-law was
the grandfather of John and Allen Dulles, founded
the American Journal of International Law in 1907
and remained an editor of it until his death,
Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson 1915-1920 ,
strong advocate of U.S. participation in World War
I, nominal head of the U.S. commission to the Paris
Peace Conference, did not regard the League of
Nations as essential to the peace treaty and began
to fall out of favor with Wilson, legal counsel to
the Chinese Government, trustee of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace |
Lavis, Fred |
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1864-1928 |
Married Blanche Biddle
of Nicholas Biddle in 1902, U.S. president of
International Railways of Central America in 1928. |
Lee, Ivy L. |
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1877-1934 |
newspaperman in New
York City, lecturer London School of Economics
1911-1912, public relations expert and publicist for
the Pennsylvania Railroad and for John D.
Rockefeller Jr., working for Rockefeller he laid the
foundation for Communist propaganda and is even said
to have inspired Hitler and Stalin on this subject,
made a 2-week trip to Russia on behalf of John D.
Rockefeller in May of 1927, member of the Royal
Economic Society, director Research Corporation
1925-1934. |
Lee, James E. |
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1906-died |
Son of Ivy L. Lee,
member Royal Economic Society, chairman and CEO Gulf
Oil Corporation, director Chevron. Joy Manufacturing
Co., Pittsburgh National Bank, PNC Financial Corp.,
Gulf Canada Ltd., the American Petroleum Institute
and West Penn Hospital, member Council on Foreign
Relations. |
Leffingwell, Russell C. |
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1878-1960 |
Under Secretary of the
Treasury. Director and trustee Carnegie Corporation,
present at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference.
Director Council on Foreign Relations 1927-1943.
Vice-president Council on Foreign Relations
1943-1944. President Council on Foreign Relations
1944-1946. Chairman Council on Foreign Relations
1946-1953. Senior partner J.P. Morgan & Company.
Chairman J.P. Morgan & Company 1948-1950. Co-founder
of the American-Australian Association in 1948. Good
friend of John Maynard Keynes, who he would receive
at his Morgan office when Keynes visited the United
States. Director Council on Foreign Relations
1953-1960. |
Lehman, Robert
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1891 - 1969 |
The Lehmans are one of
America's most prominent German-Jewish dynasties.
Their ancestor, Abraham Lehmann (1785-1865), lived
in the Bavarian village of Rimpar. After their
emigration to Montgomery, Alabama, in the middle of
the nineteenth century, his sons founded the banking
firm of Lehman Brothers, today one of the most
prestigious on Wall Street. Educated at Yale
University. Robert Lehman was chairman of Lehman
Brothers until 1969. He was the first one to invite
non-family members to become partners in the firm.
Had a large art collection. |
Leslie, John Ethelbert |
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unknown |
Governor of the United
Nations Association. Director of the Foreign Policy
Association. Director of the France-America Society.
Chairman Bache Group. Trustee of the Institute for
International Education. Recipient of decorations
from Portugal, France, Austria and West Germany. |
Louis, John J., Jr.
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died 1995 |
He enrolled at
Northwestern for one year before entering World War
II as a aviator. After service he graduated from
Williams College and then received an MBA from Amos
Tuck at Dartmouth. After several years in
advertising John became a venture capitalist. In
1946, John J. Louis became Chairman of the Board of
The KTAR Broadcasting Company. Father died in 1959.
Chairman of The KTAR Broadcasting Company by 1960.
Long a contributor to the republican party.
Ambassador to Great Britain 1981-1983. Trustee of
Northwestern University from 1972 to 1995. |
Lucas, Charles Clement, Jr. |
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alive |
Son of Charles Clement
Lucas, Sr., and Sallie Elizabeth Williams was born
in Wilson, North Carolina. He attended the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he
received an A.B. in Chemistry and History, and the
Doctor of Medicine. He completed his medical
training at Duke University where he was Chief
Resident of Family Practice. He was elected to
membership in the Order of the Old Well at the
University of North Carolina. For his medical
leadership activities in North Carolina he received
The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest award
given by the State of North Carolina. Dr. Lucas
served in the United States Public Health Service
from 1970-1972 and was commissioned as Senior
Assistant Surgeon. Dr. Lucas moved to New York City
in 1979 where he lived until 1988 when he moved to
Greenwich, Connecticut. He maintains a private
practice of internal medicine in Larchmont, New
York, and is certified by the American Board of
Family Practice. r. Lucas is a member of the
Pilgrims of the United States; Northeast Harbor Swim
and Tennis; Squadron A Association of New York;
Northeast Harbor Fleet; The Union Club of the City
of New York; Soldiers Sailors Marines Airmen Club;
American Philosophical Society; Youth Foundation of
the City of New York; Christ Episcopal Church,
Greenwich; New York Academy of Sciences; North
Carolina Society of the City of New York; The Dinner
Dancers of the City of New York. He is also a member
of the Holland Lodge #8, F &AM; Ancient Chapter
No.1, Royal Arch Masons; Morton Commandery No. 4,
New York City, Knights Templar; Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite, Valley of New York, 32nd degree.
Leading figure in many blue blood/templar
organizations. Among them are the Society of
Descendants of Knights of the Garter, Order of the
Crown in America, National Society Americans of
Royal Descent, Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
(Founder Member; Secretary General), Order of the
Crown of Charlemagne in the United States, Military
Order of the Crusades, Order of Three Crusades
1096-1192, Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters,
General Society of Colonial Wars , etc., etc.
Serving Brother of the Order of St. John (bestowed
by Queen Elizabeth II). Chirurgeon of the Sovereign
Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem. |
Luce, Henry Robinson |
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1898-1967 |
His mother was
Elizabeth Root, from a family that had earlier
intermarried with the Spencers and Pomeroys. Born in
Shantung Province, China, in Presbyterian mission
house. Attended Chefoo School, Chefoo [Yantai],
China from 1908-1912. Attended St. Alban's School
north of London, England 1912-1913. Attended
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. 1913-1916. B.A.,
Yale University in 1920 where he was introduced into
Skull & Bones. Student at Oxford University in
England 1920-1921. Reporter for the Chicago Daily
News and Baltimore Sun 1921-1922. Cofounded Time
with Briton Hadden (Skull & Bones 1920) in 1923 with
the help of J.P. Morgan partners Thomas Lamont and
Dwight Morrow. Harvey Firestone, E. Roland Harriman,
and various members of the Harkness family were
other funders of his early media empire. Married to
Lila Holz 1923-1935. Founded Fortune in 1930.
Editor-in-chief, Time Publications 1930-1938. First
“March of Time” radio program in 1931. First “March
of Time” newsreel in 1935. Married Clare Boothe
Luce, a Dame of Malta, in 1935. Founded Life in
1936. Editorial director, Time, inc. 1938. Organizer
of United China Relief in 1940. Initiated the
Commission on Freedom of the Press in 1944. Awarded
the Order of Auspicious Star (China) in 1947.
Founded House and Home in 1952. Founded Sports
Illustrated in 1954. Influential member of the
Republican Party. Member of the Atlantic Union. Luce
was a strong opponent of Fidel Castro and his
revolutionary government in Cuba. This included the
funding of Alpha 66 (which was guided by the CIA).
In 1962 and 1963 Alpha 66 launched several raids on
Cuba which included attacks on port installations
and foreign shipping. When Kennedy was assassinated
in November 1963, Luce's Life Magazine purchased the
Zapruder Film for $150,000. Soon after the
assassination they also successfully negotiated with
Marina Oswald the exclusive rights to her story.
This story never appeared in print, but in an
interview she gave to the Ladies Home Journal in
September 1988 she argued: "I believe he worked for
the American government... He was taught the Russian
language when he was in the military. Do you think
that is usual, that an ordinary soldier is taught
Russian? Also, he got in and out of Russia quite
easily, and he got me out quite easily." Luce
published individual frames of Zapruder's film but
did not allow the film to be screened in its
entirety. It was shown to the public in March 1975
which convinced many that the fatal head shot come
from the Grassy Knoll (because of Kennedy's violent
backward and leftward movement while the bullet is
supposed to have come from the back). Writers such
as Noel Twyman, David Lifton, Jack White, John
Costella and David Mantik have claimed that the
Zapruder Film has been tampered with. Retired from
Time/Life in 1964. |
Luce, Henry III |
president |
1925-alive |
Grandson of the famous
Henry Luce (who's wife was a Dame of Malta). The
original Henry Luce was a Skull & Bones member, a
media giant (owned Time, Fortune & Life Magazine
together with House & Home and Sports Illustrated),
and quickly bought and held on to the JFK Zapruder
film in 1963. Henry Luce III worked his way up in
his father's media empire and later inherited it.
Luce began at Time as a correspondent in Washington,
D.C. Moving to New York in 1953, he served as a Time
contributing editor whose cover stories included
those on Joseph R. McCarthy and then Vice President
Richard M. Nixon. In 1956 he became head of the
Time's New Building Department which planned and
supervised construction of the new Time & Life
Building in Rockefeller Center. Following completion
of the building in 1960, he held a number of posts
at Time Inc., including Circulation Director of
Fortune, Architectural Forum and House and Home. In
1964 he became a vice president of Time Inc., and
later, director of Research and Development. He
became Time's London Bureau Chief in 1966, publisher
of Fortune in 1968 and publisher of Time in 1969.
Before joining the Time, Inc., Mr. Luce served on
the staff of the Commission on Organization of the
Executive Branch of the Government (the first Hoover
Commission) as assistant to Commissioner Joseph P.
Kennedy (Knight of Malta), followed by two years as
a reporter for the Cleveland Press. CEO & president
Henry Luce Foundation 1958-1990. Chairman Henry Luce
Foundation 1990-2002. Trustee of Princeton
Theological Seminary, the Center of Theological
Inquiry, The Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, The
New York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, and A Christian Ministry in National Parks. He
is a director of the National Committee on
U.S.-China Relations and of the Foreign Policy
Association, as well as the founding member of the
American Council for the United Nations University.
He is Chairman of the Graduate Theological Union's
President's Advisory Council, and he is a charter
member of Yale University's President's Council on
International Activities. He is a commissioner of
the National Museum of American Art, and on the
Advisory Councils of the Fulbright Commission, The
Newark Museum and the National Academy Museum and
School of Fine Art. He is an emeritus life trustee
of the College of Wooster. He is Chairman of
American Security Systems, Inc. and a director of
the Fishers Island Development Company. He is the
former president of the New Museum of Contemporary
Art (1977-1998). From 1960 to 1972 he was president
of the board of trustees of St., Bernard's School,
Gladstone, New Jersey. He is the former chairman of
the China Institute in America (1975-1978) and was a
trustee from 1988-1998. He is a former trustee of
the United Board for Christian Higher Education in
Asia (1958-1993), the American Federation of Arts,
the Academy of American Poets, the Pan American
Development Foundation (1983-1994), the American
Friends of Canada (1990-1994), the Skowhegan School
of Painting & Sculpture (1973-88), the Yale-China
Association (1979-88) and the Association to Unite
the Democracies (1982-88) and a former director of
Circle Repertory Company (1981-88) and of the U.S.
Committee for UNICEF (1990-1993). He is an elder of
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and president
of the Pilgrims of the United States. He is a member
of The Brook and the University Club (former Council
member). |
Maclamroc, James
Gwaltney Westwarren |
exec. committee |
1905-died |
Historian, attorney,
colonel, North Carolina financier, broadcasting
magnate, land baron, Order of the Crown in America,
Society of Americans of Royal Descent, directed the
design of the seal for his county (Guilford). |
Macomber, John Dewitt |
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1928-alive |
Married into the
Morgan family. CEO and chairman Celanese
Corporation. CEO of JDM Investment Group. Chairman
and president of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
(EXIMBANK)1989-1992. Director of R.J. Reynolds
Industries, Chase Manhattan Bank. Member Atlantic
Institute for International Affairs, the Pilgrims
Society, the Atlantic Council of the United States,
and the Council on Foreign Relations. |
Makins, Lord Roger Mellor
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1904-1996 |
Born in 1904. Became
the 1st Baron Sherfield. Fellow of All Souls, the
chief headquarters of the Round Table Group
according to professor Carroll Quigley. Joined the
Foreign Office at the age of 24. Became part of the
Milner Group according to Quigley. Assistant adviser
and adviser on League of Nations affairs to the
Foreign Office 1937-1939. Secretary to the British
delegation to the Evian Conference in 1938. After
the Evian Conference, Makins was made secretary to
the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. During
World War II he was advisor to Harold Macmillan in
North Africa and met Eisenhower. United Kingdom
representative on United Nations Interim Commission
for Food and Agriculture in 1945. Minister at the
British Embassy in Washington 1945-1947. Alternate
delegate to the fifth session of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in 1946.
Architect of the British Marshall Scholarships
programme. Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs 1947-1948. Deputy Under Secretary 1948-1952.
British ambassador to Washington 1952-1956. Joint
Permanent Secretary of the Treasury in 1956. First
chairman of the Ditchley Foundation. Chairman of the
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (at least in
1965, when he visited Karachi, Pakistan). Chairman
of the Imperial College of London 1962-1974.
Chancellor of the University of Reading. Chairman of
the Select Committee on Science and Technology of
the House of Lords. Knight of the Order of St
Michael and St George. Knight of the Order of the
Bath. Member of the Pilgrims Society and identified
as a governor of the Atlantic Institute of
International Affairs in 1987. Died in 1996.
His
son, Christopher J. Makins (the second Lord
Sherfield), was born in Southampton, NY, educated at
New College, Oxford, where he earned first class
honors in Modern History in 1963, and was elected a
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1963. He is
fluent in French and a U.S. and British dual
national. Served for 11 years as a member of Her
Majesty's Diplomatic Service, working in London,
Paris and Washington. Deputy director of the
Trilateral Commission 1975-1976. Deputy director at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1977-1979. Division manager and assistant vice
president at Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC) 1979-1989. Makins worked in
partnership with former U.S. Deputy Defense
Secretary Robert Ellsworth (Lazard; Bilderberg; CFR;
Atlantic Institute) to provide a regular newsletter
on U.S. foreign-economic and defense policy and
domestic politics from 1981 to 1994. Director at the
Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies
1984-1988. Vice president and then executive vice
president of the Aspen Institute from 1989 to 1997,
where he was involved with the European and Asian
partners. Senior Adviser to the German Marshall Fund
of the United States 1997-1999. President of the
Atlantic Council of the United States since
September 1999. |
Mallory, Walter Hampton
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1892-1980 |
Special assistant to
the American ambassador in Petrograd (former capital
of Russia) 1916-1917, president of the China
Institute in America 1943-1947, Rockefeller's China
Medical Board beginning in 1947 and on, director
Council on Foreign Relations 1927-1959, director
Council on Foreign Relations 1959-1968, decorated
the Order of Pure Gold by China. |
Marburg, Theodore
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1862-1946 |
Vice-president of the
Vanderbilt run American Economic Association, U.S.
Minister to Belgium 1912-1914, big player in the
formation of The League of Nations and wrote a bunch
of books about it (starting in 1917), founded the
American Society for the Judicial Settlement in
1920, trustee of Johns Hopkins University. |
Marcosson, Isaac
Frederick |
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1876-1961 |
Well-known
correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post
1907-1936, interviewed many important people, wrote
some 30 books, including “The Rebirth of Russia” and
“The Business of War”, (both in 1917). |
Marshall, George
Catlett |
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1880-1959 |
Virginia Military
Institute, Kappa Alpha Order, Order of the Bath
(Knight Grand Cross), USSR Order of Suvarov,
Marshall wrote the document that would become the
central strategy for all Allied operations in
Europe, selected Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme
Commander in Europe, and designed Operation
Overlord, the invasion of Normandy. Throughout the
remainder of World War II, Marshall coordinated all
Allied operations in Europe and the Pacific.
Unofficial ambassador (Truman representative) to
China 1945-1947, Secretary of State 1947–1949,
received the Distinguished Achievement Award for his
role as military leader in and after WWII (1948).
After WW II he was sent to China to negotiate a
truce and build a coalition government between the
Nationalists and Communists fighting the Chinese
Civil War. His efforts failed and he was recalled in
January 1947. Secretary of Defense in 1950, but
retired from politics for good in 1951 after Senator
Joseph McCarthy implied he was a traitor and
denounced him for making decisions that "aided the
Communist drive for world domination". He became
president of the American National Red Cross in 1950
and received the Nobel Peace Prize 1953. Marshall
Scholars are common among Pilgrims. |
Martin, Luther III |
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unknown |
Chemical, oil and gas
tycoon, president Alumni Society of the University
of Pennsylvania 1936-1938. |
Martin, William
McChesney, Jr. |
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1906-1998 |
Chairman Export-Import
Bank of the U.S., assistant Treasury Secretary,
director World Bank, chairman Federal Reserve System
1951-1970 and reorganised the NY Stock Exchange.
Director U.S. Steel, Freeport Minerals Company,
Scandinavian Securities Corporation, Riggs National
Bank, American Express, Caterpillar Tractor, Dow
Jones & Company, Eli Lilly & Company, General Foods,
and Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum. Trustee Yale
University, member Atlantic Council of the United
States, member Council on Foreign Relations. His
father was a governor and president of the Federal
Reserve Bank of of St. Louis and was summoned by
Woodrow Wilson to establish the Federal Reserve Act
of 1913. |
Martin, Alastair
Bradley |
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unknown |
His mother was Helen
Phipps, director Bessemer Securities Corporation,
president Regional Broadcasters Group. |
Maull, Baldwin |
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unknown |
Chairman of Marine
Midland Bank, member of the council of the American
Numismatic Society (1969) |
Mayer, John Anton
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unknown |
Director General
Motors, H.J. Heinz Foods, Armco Steel, Edgewater
Steel, Westinghouse, Consolidated Coal Company, PPG
Industries, Norfolk & Western Railway, Duquesne
Light Company, Lincoln National Life Insurance,
Pittsburgh Baseball Club and others. Owned First
Boston Corporation, of which Pilgrim Society member,
Mellon agent Emil J. Pattberg Jr. was chairman. |
McCain, John Sidney, Jr. |
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1911-1981 |
McCain was an Admiral
in the United States Navy. His father John S.
McCain, Sr. was also an admiral in the Navy, and his
son John S. McCain III is a US Senator representing
Arizona. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he graduated
from the United States Naval Academy in 1931. During
World War II, "Junior" – who preferred to be called
"Jack" – commanded the submarines USS Gunnel and
Dentuda. Subsequently he held a number of posts,
rising to Commander-in-Chief of the United States
Pacific Command before retiring in 1972. He was
involved in the investigations that followed the USS
Liberty incident. He is buried in Arlington National
Cemetery. USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) was named for
him and his father. |
McCloy, John Jay |
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1895-1989 |
Catholic. Harvard Law
School 1921. As a lawyer he gained an international
reputation when after a long investigation he fixed
responsibility on the German government for the
Black Tom munitions explosion in Hoboken, N.J., in
1917. Assistant Secretary of War in World War II
1941-1945 (recruited by Henry L. Stimson). Helped
write the Lend-Lease bill. Opposed the "Morgenthau
Plan" to de-industrialize Germany. Served as
chairman of the State-War-Navy Coordinating
Committee. Oversaw Germany's return to statehood and
released Fritz Thyssen, Hjalmar Schacht, Friedrich
Flick, and Alfred Krupp. He became president of the
World Bank 1947-1949 (without any experience in
banking). U.S. military governor and high
commissioner for Germany 1949-1952. Chairman Chase
National Bank 1953-1960. Chairman Council on Foreign
Relations 1953-1970. Member of the Pilgrims Society.
Visitor of Bilderberg. Governor of the Atlantic
Institute for International Affairs. Chairman Ford
Foundation 1958-1965. President Kennedy's principal
disarmament adviser 1961-1963. Member of the Warren
Commission 1963. Author of The Challenge of American
Foreign Policy (1953) and The Atlantic Alliance
(1969). |
McGarrah, Gates W.
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unknown |
Chairman Chase
National Bank until 1927, U.S. member of the General
Council of the German Reichsbank until 1927,
chairman Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1927-1930,
first president of the Bank for International
Settlements 1930. |
McHugh, Keith Stratton
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unknown |
Related to the Aldrich
family, director National City Bank, Carrier
Corporation, Dun & Bradstreet, Empire City Subway
and American Telephone & Telegraph, trustee Carnegie
Institution of Washington 1950-1974. |
Mellon, Andrew W. |
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1855-1937 |
Owned his father's
banking firm, father's banking firm, T. Mellon &
Sons, at age 27, helped organize Union Trust Company
and Union Savings Bank of Pittsburgh in 1889, built
a great personal fortune from oil, steel,
shipbuilding, and construction. During the World War
I years he participated in many patriotic civilian
activities such as the American Red Cross, the
National War Council of the YMCA, the Executive
Committee of the Pennsylvania State Council of
National Defense, and the National Research Council
of Washington. He was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
1921-1932, member Federal Reserve System 1921-1932,
United States ambassador to Great Britain 1932-1933,
director of 51 corporations and stockholder in more
than 300 corporations, polluted the environment to
the extreme, underpayed his imported workers
tremendously, kept them in very unhealthy conditions
and even had troublesome workers tortured and killed
if necessary. As of 1928 armed private police forces
watched over his mines. He was very close with the
British royals. He was one of the few who held his
own against the Rockefellers and J.P. Morgan.
Freemason. |
Mellon, Paul W. |
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1907-1999 |
His father was known
as a ruthless businessman who greatly suppressed his
workers in all his hundreds of companies and
polluted the environment to the extreme. He was the
only one to hold his own against the Rockefellers
and the Morgans. Paul was a member of Yale Scroll &
Key. He didn't spend much time in business.
Long-time neighbor of the powerful Averell Harriman
and worked together with his son-in-law. During
WWII, Paul Mellon became OSS station chief in London
and liaison to British Intelligence. After WWII,
Martin A. Lee and Bruce Schlain note in Acid Dreams:
"... members of the Mellon family maintained close
ties with the CIA. The Mellon family foundations
have been used repeatedly as conduits for Agency
funds. Furthermore, Richard Helms was a frequent
weekend guest of the Mellon patriarchs in Pittsburgh
during his tenure as CIA director [1966-1973]."
Founded the Old Dominion Foundation which merged to
become the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Philanthropist, art collector and horse breeder.
Established the Yale Center for British Art. He has
been a member of the 1001 Club. |
Metcalf, Bryce
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exec. committee |
unknown |
As of 1938, President
General of the Society of the Cincinnati, which is
very likely the American counterpart of English
Order of the Garter or the Scottish Order of the
Thistle. |
Milbank, Jeremiah |
|
unknown |
Wealthy New York
investment broker in the first half of the 20th
century, director Chase National Bank of New York,
director Equitable Trust Company, owner Southern
Railway Co., trustee Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
in 1934, partner in the New York law firm Milbank,
Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy. |
Miller, William
Christian |
|
unknown |
Reynolds Securities of
New York. |
Milner, Lord Alfred |
co-founder |
1854-1925 |
Oxford. London
journalist for a short time. Private secretary to
George Goschen (chancellor of the exchequer)
1887-1890. Undersecretary of finance in Egypt
1890-1892. Wrote a book which argued for more
British influence in Egypt 1892. Trustee of Rhodes'
final will. Became a viscount in 1902. High
commissioner for South Africa and governor-general
of Cape Colony from 1897-1905. Supervised the
destruction of Dutch settlers what led to the Boer
war 1899-1902. Secretary of War under David Lloyd
George 1916-1918. Worked together with the Warburgs,
Schiffs, Rothschilds and other persons to foment the
Russian revolution. Colonial Secretary 1919-1921.
Led a commission to Egypt that recommended Egyptian
independence in 1920. Terence O'Brien's biography,
"Milner", p. 97, "Milner went to Paris on some
business with Alhponse de Rothschild... Business
calls in the City included a formal visit to
Rothschilds... weekend with Lord Rothschild at
Tring, and visit with Edward Cecil, Lord Salisbury
at Hatfield... while spending a weekend with Lord
Rothschild at Tring a Press Lord gave him a
sleepless night [no further explanation given]...
talks with Rothschild. Milner attended a Zionist
dinner given by Lord Rothschild, sitting next to
Lawrence of Arabia, who interpreted for him in a
talk with King Feisal." On p. 364, O'Brien notes,
"Milner lost no time in recreating his links with
the City. He went first to Rio Tinto which reelected
him to its Board and before long Rothschild asked
him to be its chairman." Chairman of Rio Tinto Zinc
1921-1925. The Round Table Group was unofficially
named the Milner Group after Cecil Rhodes died. |
Moore, George Stevens
|
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1905-2000 |
Yale, joined Farmers
Loan and Trust Co. in 1927, which became First
National City Bank of New York, which became
Citibank, retired as chairman from Citibank in 1967,
president New York Metropolitan Opera Association in
1967, author of "The Banker's Life" (1987). In 1987
he was the chairman of Gibraltar Trust Bank Ltd. and
director at Credit Suisse White Weld, Union Pacific
Railroad, U.S. Steel, W.R. Grace and Mercantile
Stores. |
Moore, Charles Garrett
Ponsonby |
|
1910-1989 |
11th Earl of Drogheda,
descendant of the Earl of Drogheda, who was Queen
Victoria’s private secretary for a quarter of a
century. Married Paul Mellon’s stepdaughter Eliza,
managing director Financial Times 1946-1971,
chairman Financial Times 1971-1974. |
Morgan, John Pierpont |
|
1837-1913 |
Pierpont and Morgan
were/are both wealthy elite Anglo-American families
and have intermarried (before and after J.P. Morgan)
with the Spencers, Grosvenors, Barings, Gascoignes,
Harcourts, Adams, and others. Son of the
London-based Junius Spencer Morgan, who, by 1854,
became a London agent of George Peabody (Junius was
also the favorite banker of Andrew Carnegie in
London). Peabody is said to have been an agent of
the London Rothschild family. In 1857 the Bank of
England gave a loan to George Peabody & Co. and
saved it, while 9000 other companies went down in a
large financial crash. With this money Peabody
bought up large amounts of dirt cheap securities and
sold them at a later stage with enormous profits. In
1864, as Peabody retires, George Peabody & Company
is renamed to Junius S. Morgan Company and Junius
supposedly becomes a direct Rothschild agent. John
P. was educated at the English high-school in
Boston, and studied for 2 years at the University of
Goettingen in mathematics. He returned to the United
States in 1857, and entered the banking-firm of
Duncan, Sherman and Co. of New York. In 1860 he
became an agent and attorney in the United States
for George Peabody and Co. of London, a relation he
has since held with that firm and its successor. He
became the junior partner of the banking-firm of
Dabney, Morgan and Co. in 1864, and that of Drexel,
Morgan and Co. in 1871 (both under the control of
their London counterpart). This house is among the
chief negotiators of railroad bonds, and was active
in the reorganization of the West Shore railroad and
its absorption by the New York Central railroad.
Morgan build a huge industrial empire, which could
stabilize and destabilize the entire market. He was
the first person to issue loans to the American
Government, instead of the British, and by 1901 he
had bailed out the American government 3 times. No
other American businessman has ever come close to
the influence of J.P. Morgan. A description of the
interests of J.P. Morgan in 1901: "Besides his own
private banking house here and its branches abroad,
Mr. Morgan largely controls a powerful national bank
in New York City-the National Bank of Commerce, of
which he is the vice-president. It is known in Wall
Street as "Morgan's Bank." He is a dominating
influence in other banks and financial institutions,
and a director never without much influence in
twenty-one railroad companies, great and small,
including the New York Central and Lake Shore
systems. He is a director in the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the Pullman Palace Car Company,
the Etna Fire Insurance Company, the General
Electric Company, the greatest electric company in
the world, and in other less important corporations.
And through his partners, who are directors in other
railroad and steel corporations, his influence
reaches far and wide. He is a potent, and in times
of trouble the controlling, factor in several of
what are known as the "coal roads" of
Pennsylvania-the Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the
Central of New Jersey, and the Reading, together
with their tributary coal fields. He is the
predominating influence in the Southern Railway and
in three of its connections, the foremost railroad
system of the Southern States, with over eight
thousand miles of track, a system which he has
created, and of which an associate and is president.
He is also a power in many other railroads, as
witness his recent appointment of the directors of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, and his evident
influence through J. J. Hill in the Burlington and
Great Northern management. And, as I have already
said, he is at present practically dictator of the
vast steel interests of the country, through the
United States Steel Corporation, and he controls at
least one Atlantic steamship line." Pilgrims Society
member George Fisher Baker, chairman of Manhattan's
First National Bank and director of at least 50
other companies, was one of Morgan's closest allies.
He wanted Baker on the board of every important
company he financed. |
Morgan, John Pierpont,
Jr. |
|
1867-1943 |
American banker and
financier, the head of the Morgan investment banking
house after the death of his father. Graduated from
Harvard University in 1889. Became a member of his
father's banking firm, J.P. Morgan and Company, in
1892, working in the firm's London branch for eight
years. After that he went to New York. The Morgans
had used their banks to gain control of a huge
empire of industries, railroads, and insurance
companies. They financed corporate mergers and in
return gained major roles in the merged companies.
One of the most important companies they controlled
was U.S. Steel. J.P. Morgan was one of the main
financiers of The American Liberty League, the main
institute behind the 1934 fascist plot against FDR.
His sons and grandsons were far less impressive
bankers and by 1960 the Morgan presence in the
family firms had ended completely. His sons Junius
and Henri were OSS executives working for Wild Bill
Donovan. |
Morgan, William
Fellowes |
|
1860-1943 |
Scientific interests,
alumnus and trustee Columbia University, New York
cold storage tycoon, president National Society for
the Prevention of Blindness in 1926 (S&B, Pilgrim
William H. Taft is the honorary president), trustee
Wells College for 26 years, chairman Wells College
1927-1940. |
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. |
|
1891-1967 |
Studied architecture
and agriculture for two years at Cornell University.
Neighbor and friend of FDR. Appointed chairman New
York State Agricultural Advisory Commission in 1929.
Appointed State Commissioner of Conservation in 1930
and directed a million-acre reforestation program.
Appointed to the Taconic State Park Commission.
Appointed chairman of the Federal Farm Board and
Governor of the Farm Credit Administration in 1933.
Advisor to FDR. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
1934-1945. In 1944, he proposed the Morgenthau plan,
under which post-war Germany would be stripped of
its industry and converted into an agricultural
nation. At the Bretton Woods conference in 1944,
Morgenthau assumed a leading role in establishing
post-war economic policies and currency
stabilization. In July 1945, three months after the
death of President Roosevelt, Morgenthau resigned as
Secretary, but remained in office until President
Truman's return from the "Big Three" conference in
Berlin. From 1947 until 1950, he was Chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal, which raised $465 million
during that time, and from 1951 to 1954, he served
as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the
American Financial and Development Corporation for
Israel, which handled a $500 million bond issue for
the new nation. |
Morrow, Dwight Whitney |
|
1873-1931 |
Member of Simpson,
Thatcher & Bartlett, with J.P. Morgan & Company
1914-1927, awarded the Distinguished Service Medal
by General Pershing in 1919, ambassador to Mexico
1927-1930, delegate to the London Naval Conference
1930, U.S. Senator 1930-1931, regent of the
Smithsonian Institution, trustee of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Amherst College,
Union Theological Seminary, Russell Sage Foundation
and the Commonwealth Fund, which was set up by the
Harkness family of Pilgrim Society and the Standard
Oil fortune. |
Morton, Levi Parsons |
|
1824–1920 |
Calvinist
indoctrinated, quite poor, entered the banking
business during the Civil War (1861-1865) and became
a prominent New York City banker. His company,
through its London branch (Rothschild agent Junius
S. Morgan sent him clients), was the financial agent
of the U.S. government from 1873 to 1884. Elected to
the U.S. House of Representatives from New York in
1879, driven the ceremonial first rivet into the
Statue of Liberty when construction of the monument
began in France in 1881, minister to France
1881-1885, Republican vice-president of the United
States under Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893, governor
of New York 1895-1896. |
Morton, William H. |
|
unknown |
Dartmouth College
graduate 1932, helped out with Darthmouth Medical
School's financial trouble, Secretary of the
Interior, president American Express Co., director
of Crocker Bank (merged into London Midland Bank). |
Norman, Lord Montagu
Collett |
|
1871-1950 |
The only man in
history who had both of his grandfathers serve as
Governors of the Bank of England. His father was
with Brown, Shipley Company, the London Branch of
Brown Brothers. Norman was named to the Court of the
Bank of England in 1907, had a nervous breakdown in
1912, and was treated by Carl Jung in Switzerland.
Governor Bank of England 1916-1944. Participated in
the secret meeting (or meetings) between him,
Hjalmar Schacht (Reichsbank) and Benjamin Strong
(Federal Reserve) in July 1927. Close friends to
both of these men. Leading figure in establishing
the Swiss Bank for International Settlements in
1931, involved with abandoning the gold standard in
the United Kingdom in 1931. Wall Street Journal, Feb
8, 1927: "Mr. M.Collet Norman, the Governor of the
Bank of England, is now head and shoulders above all
other British bankers. No other British banker has
ever been a sindependent and supreme in the world of
British finance as Mr. Norman is today. He has just
been elected Governor for the eighth year in
succession. Before the war, no Governor was allowed
to hold office for more than two years; but Mr.
Norman has broken all precedents. He runs his Bank
and his Treasury as well. He appears to have no
associations except his employees. He gives no
interviews. He leaves the British financial world
wholly in the thick as to his plans and ideas." |
Northcliffe, Lord
Alfred Harmsworth |
|
1865-1922 |
Purchased the Evening
News 1894, founded the Daily Mail 1896, warned for
the first time that a future war with Germany was
possible, editor New York World in 1900, founded The
Daily Mirror 1903, baronet in 1904 after turning
down an offer of knighthood, obtained the Sunday
Observer 1905, purchased The Times 1908, in 1909 he
employed a journalist to visit Germany and to write
a series of articles on the dangers that the Germans
posed to Britain, constantly attacked the government
and Lord Kitchener (Freemasonry grand master),
finally agreed to join the cabinet and take charge
of all propaganda directed at enemy countries,
called for Kaiser Wilhelm to be hanged and the
imposition of severe financial penalties on Germany,
during WWI. |
Ochs, Adolph Simon |
|
1858-1935 |
Starting as a newsboy
in Knoxville, Tenn., he became a printer's
apprentice, compositor, and, in 1878, publisher of
the Chattanooga Times. In 1896 he acquired the then
failing New York Times and made it one of the
greatest newspapers in the world. He also controlled
the Philadelphia Times and the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, which he merged and in 1913 sold to Cyrus H.
K. Curtis. From 1900 until his death he was a member
of the executive committee and a director of the
Associated Press. |
O’Conner, Sandra Day
|
|
1930-alive |
Grew up on her
family's 198,000 acre cattle ranch, graduated from
Stanford Law School 1952, Arizona assistant attorney
general 1965-1969, senator from Arizona 1969-1974,
trial judge 1974-1979, Arizona Court of Appeals
1979-1981, first woman Supreme Court Justice in
1981. Retired as Justice in 2005. Her husband is a
visitor of the Bohemian Grove and stayed in the
Pelicans camp. |
Odlum, Floyd Bostwick |
|
1892-1976 |
Law school, assistant
librarian, husband of aviatrix Jackie Cochran,
founder and chairman Atlas Corporation 1923-1960,
chairman Federal Resources Corporation 1961-1969,
owner and chairman RKO Radio Pictures 1937-1948,
chairman Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
1947-1953, owner Hidden Splendor (Uranium) Mining
Company before 1955, director Office of Production
Management 1941-1942, special adviser to the
chairman of the War Production Board 1943-44,
special adviser to the chairman of the Office of
Price Administration 1940-44, owner Convair, Bonwit
Taylor & Northeast Airlines, founder and chairman
Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, president Hertz
Foundation, trustee Lovelace Foundation, among the
10 richest men in the United States (and the world)
in 1932 (billionaire). His Atlas Corporation
purchased Paramount Pictures in 1933 at "basement"
prices. Odlum was also chairman of RKO Studios,
another filmmaker. Atlas Corporation was once known
as Atlas Utilities & Investors Company. Odlum was
also a heavy owner, through his Atlas Corporation,
of Greyhound Bus Lines; Northeast Airlines (nearly
90%); Bonwit Teller (department stores); Convair
Aviation; United Fruit Company; and Madison Square
Garden. In 1937 it was said that Atlas Corporation
was probably the biggest investment trust in the
world. |
Olin, John Merrill |
|
1892-1982 |
Graduated from Cornell
University with a B.S. in chemistry, chemical
engineer for the Western Cartridge Company (became
Olin Industries, Inc.) since 1913, became President
of Olin Industries in 1944, upon the merger of the
company with Mathieson Chemical Corporation in 1954
he became the new chairman, established the John M.
Olin Foundation in 1952, inventor or co-inventor of
24 United States patents in the field of arms and
ammunition manufacture and design and was
responsible for numerous developments in ballistics,
breeder of saddle and race horses as well as a
trainer and breeder of champion Labrador retrievers,
widely recognized as one of the country's most
active conservationists and led the effort to save
the Atlantic salmon. Mr. Olin was a Trustee Emeritus
of Cornell University and of Johns Hopkins
University, a Life Trustee of Washington University,
St. Louis, and an Honorary Director of The American
Museum of Natural History. He was named the Charles
F. Kettering Award recipient for 1968 by the George
Washington University PTC Research Institute. He
received the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur of
France and the Grand Ufficiale-Ordine al Merito
della Republica Italiana. |
O'Ryan, John F.
|
|
1874-1961 |
Enlisted in the army
as a Private in 1897, became Major General in 1912,
appointed by President Wilson as Major General of
the National Army in 1917, Knight Commander, Order
of St. Michael and St. George, Royal Victorian
Order, Legion of Honor, and a few other rewards. |
Otis, Norton |
|
unknown |
Founder Otis Elevator |
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