Harold Stanley

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Harold Stanley
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBusinessman
Known forMorgan Stanley

Harold Stanley (October 2, 1885 – May 14, 1963) was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. For 20 years, he ran Morgan Stanley until he left the firm in 1955.

Early life

Stanley was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of

Stanley Works building was named in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[1] He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1904[2] and Yale University in 1908. Harold Stanley was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society.[3]

Career

He became a vice-president of the bond department of the

Glass–Steagall Act
separated commercial and investment banking.

In 1935, along with Henry Sturgis Morgan, J. P. Morgan's grandson and J. P. Morgan Jr.'s son, he helped found Morgan Stanley to take up the securities business that had to be given up by J. P. Morgan, and became the firm's senior partner when it was reorganized from a corporation to a partnership in 1941. Stanley was influential in his testimony in the 1940s successfully defending the industry against government charges that it was anti-competitive.

Personal life

He married Edith Thurston, daughter of William Harris Thurston, in 1914. She died in 1934, and he married Louise Todd, widow of

East 72nd Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City and died in Philadelphia in 1963.[1]

Activities and interests

He was a member of the Links Club of New York, the National Golf Club, the

Shell Caribbean Petroleum Corporation.[1]

Stanley played ice hockey at Yale University between 1906 and 1908 and later on the St. Nicholas Hockey Club in the American Amateur Hockey League.

Philanthropy

In 1940, he led the New York campaign to raise $1.5 million (equivalent to $32,622,000 in 2023) for the United States Commission for the Care of European Children, a private organization providing relief to young war refugees.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Harold Stanley, 77, is Dead". The New York Times. May 15, 1963. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Alumni Award: PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS". The Hotchkiss School. 2004. Archived from the original on March 10, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  3. Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley
    . HarperCollins. pp. 10, 22.

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