http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/browse?tags=Business+and+Finance&output=atom <![CDATA[Georgetown Portraits]]> 2019-01-14T18:05:54-05:00 Omeka http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/show/36 <![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]> Business Leader

Warren Buffett is a philanthropist, investor, and business magnate. Ranked among the world’s wealthiest people, Buffett is famous for his frugal approach, value investing philosophy, and generosity. He has donated 99% percent of his wealth to charitable causes, much of it to the Gates Foundation, and in 2011 he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.]]> 2011-10-28T14:17:14-04:00

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Warren Buffett

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born August 30, 1930
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Warren Buffett is a philanthropist, investor, and business magnate. Ranked among the world’s wealthiest people, Buffett is famous for his frugal approach, value investing philosophy, and generosity. He has donated 99% percent of his wealth to charitable causes, much of it to the Gates Foundation, and in 2011 he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
There is a portrait of Warren Buffett in the National Portrait Gallery's "The 20th Century Americans: 1980-Present" collection.

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]]> http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/show/27 <![CDATA[Bernard Mannes Baruch]]> Business Leader and Financier

Bernard Baruch was a financier and presidential advisor. By the time he had turned 30, Baruch had already purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and amassed significant wealth speculating on the sugar market. A successful career led to his being styled "the Lone Wolf of Wall Street," and in 1916 he left Wall Street to begin advising the incumbent president, Woodrow Wilson. His time as a presidential advisor continued into the decades that followed, when he served as a member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's famed "brain trust." In 1946, he was appointed representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and proposed international control of then-new atomic energy.]]> 2011-10-28T14:40:18-04:00

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Bernard Mannes Baruch

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August 19, 1870 - June 20, 1965
Business Leader and Financier

Bernard Baruch was a financier and presidential advisor. By the time he had turned 30, Baruch had already purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and amassed significant wealth speculating on the sugar market. A successful career led to his being styled "the Lone Wolf of Wall Street," and in 1916 he left Wall Street to begin advising the incumbent president, Woodrow Wilson. His time as a presidential advisor continued into the decades that followed, when he served as a member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's famed "brain trust." In 1946, he was appointed representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and proposed international control of then-new atomic energy.
There is a portrait of Bernard Mannes Baruch in the National Portrait Gallery's "The 20th Century Americans: 1930-1950" collection.

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Baruch

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]]> http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/show/22 <![CDATA[John Pierpont Morgan, Sr.]]> Business Leader and Financier

John Pierpont Morgan was an influential financier and entrepreneur. His business specialty was railroads, and he is associated with the West Shore, Philadelphia & Reading, Richmond Terminal, Erie, and New England railroads. He is best known for his work consolidating railroads, a phenomenon that become known as “Morganization.” On several occasions he assisted the US government with its finances, including the 1877 float of $260 million in US government bonds and the later purchase of $200 million of government bonds with gold. His biggest business venture was the formation of the US Steel Corporation, America’s first billion-dollar corporation. He was also involved in the formation of Western Union Telegraph Company and General Electric.]]> 2011-10-28T14:19:01-04:00

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John Pierpont Morgan, Sr.

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April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913
Business Leader and Financier

John Pierpont Morgan was an influential financier and entrepreneur. His business specialty was railroads, and he is associated with the West Shore, Philadelphia & Reading, Richmond Terminal, Erie, and New England railroads. He is best known for his work consolidating railroads, a phenomenon that become known as “Morganization.” On several occasions he assisted the US government with its finances, including the 1877 float of $260 million in US government bonds and the later purchase of $200 million of government bonds with gold. His biggest business venture was the formation of the US Steel Corporation, America’s first billion-dollar corporation. He was also involved in the formation of Western Union Telegraph Company and General Electric.
There is a portrait of John Pierpont Morgan in the National Portrait Gallery's "The 20th Century Americans: 1900-1930" collection.

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Morgan

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