Lewis Thompson Preston
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| Born | August 5, 1926 New York, USA | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | May 4, 1995 (Age 68) Property "Has deathPlace" (as page type) with input value "Washington D.C." contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Washington D.C|Washington D.C.]], USA | |||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Harvard | |||||||||||||||||
| Parents | • Lewis T. Preston • Priscilla Baldwin Preston | |||||||||||||||||
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An appointee of George H. W. Bush to the President of the World Bank. As of August 2015, he had a spookily short page on Wikipedia - only a couple of sentences.
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Family background
A Preston grandfather had been a Confederate officer who later became a partner in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. Preston's father was a World War I flier and later a well-known hunter.
Career
He was in the US Marines during World War II, he graduated from Harvard with a degree in history.
J. P. Morgan
Preston then began a 40-year career at J. P. Morgan, where he became a board member, and rose to CEO, a position he held in 1980.[1]
Douglas A. Warner 3d, J.P. Morgan's chairman, said in a statement today that "Lew Preston was the architect of the modern J.P. Morgan and the pre-eminent international banker of his era. He led our firm with penetrating vision, formidable intellect and strength of character."
President of the World Bank
He became President of the World Bank in September 1991, appointed by George H. W. Bush.[1]
Connections
Sources differ on whether he attended the Bilderberg Group, but he has been mentioned as a member and treasurer of Council on Foreign Relations.[2]
