1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation - 2

The House of Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan Sr. , founder

J. P. “Jack” Morgan Jr. , partner, son of John Pierpont Morgan

Thomas William Lamont , partner

Thomas Stilwell Lamont , partner, son of Thomas William Lamont

George Whitney , partner

Henry Davison , partner

Dwight Morrow , former partner, ambassador to Mexico

Russell Cornell Leffingwell , partner

Frank Bartow , partner

Parker Gilbert , partner and associate

Martin Egan , publicist

National City Company and National City Bank

Charles Edwin Mitchell , chairman and CEO

Hugh Baker , head of National City’s stock-trading unit

Gordon Rentschler , bank president

County Trust Company

James Riordan , founder and president

Chase National Bank

Albert H. Wiggin , chairman and CEO

First National Bank of New York

George F. Baker Sr. , chairman

George F. Baker Jr. , vice chairman

Bankers Trust

Seward Prosser , chairman

Irving Trust

Lewis Pierson , chairman

Reichsbank

Dr. Hjalmar Schacht , president

Colonel Sosthenes Behn , founder and chairman of International Telephone and Telegraph

Louis-Joseph Chevrolet , co-founder of Chevrolet Motor Company

Walter Percy Chrysler , founder of Chrysler Corporation

Pierre Samuel du Pont , board member of DuPont and General Motors

T. Coleman du Pont , president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, two-term U.S. senator from Delaware

Henry Ford , founder of Ford Motor Company

William Fox , founder of Fox Film Corporation

John Jakob Raskob , executive at DuPont and General Motors and chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1928–1932)

Colonel William P. Rend , president of the W. P. Rend Coal Company

David Sarnoff , founding general manager of Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

Charles M. Schwab , president of Bethlehem Steel

Alfred Sloan , president of General Motors

Owen D. Young , president and chairman of General Electric, co-founder of Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

E. H. H. Simmons , president (1924–1930)

Richard Whitney , vice president, broker for J.P. Morgan & Co.

William Crawford , superintendent

Michael Meehan , RCA or “Radio” specialist and pool operator

General Oliver Bridgeman , U.S. Steel specialist

Ben Smith , pool operator

Tom Bragg , pool operator

Michael Levine , overseer of Wall Street’s army of messenger boys

Charles Merrill , Merrill Lynch co-founder

William Van Antwerp , partner at E. F. Hutton and Co.

Evangeline Adams , astrologist known as the “stock market’s seer”

Bernard Baruch

Pat Bologna , Wall Street bootblack with a reputation as a tipster

Arthur Cutten

William Crapo Durant

Clarence Hatry , British financier

Joseph Kennedy

Jesse Livermore

Groucho Marx , actor

Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen

Jimmy Walker , mayor of New York City (1926–1932)

Fiorello La Guardia , mayor of New York City (1934–1946)

Al Smith , governor of New York (1919–1920, 1923–1928), Democratic candidate for president in 1928

Winston Churchill , British member of Parliament, former chancellor of the exchequer, future prime minister (1940–1945, 1951–1955)

Randolph Churchill , son of Winston Churchill

Ramsay MacDonald , British Labour Party leader, foreign secretary, prime minister (1924, 1929–1935)

William Howard Taft , chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921–1930), U.S. president (1909–1913)

Warren G. Harding , U.S. president (1921–1923)

Calvin Coolidge , U.S. president (1923–1929)

Herbert Clark Hoover , U.S. president (1929–1933)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , governor of New York (1929–1933), U.S. president (1933–1945)

Andrew William Mellon , American banker and businessman, treasury secretary (1921–1932)

William Woodin , industrialist, treasury secretary (1933)

Senator Carter Glass , Democrat from Virginia, co-founder of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, co-sponsor of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932

Senator Hiram Johnson , Republican from California

Senator Huey Long , nicknamed “the Kingfish,” Democrat from Louisiana

Senator Kenneth McKellar , Democrat from Tennessee

Senator George Moses , Republican from New Hampshire

Senator George Norris , Republican from Nebraska

Senator Robert L. Owen , Democrat from Oklahoma, co-sponsor with Carter Glass of the Federal Reserve Act

Senator Arthur Robinson , Republican from Indiana

Senator Reed Owen Smoot , Republican from Utah, co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act

Representative Henry B. Steagall , Democrat from Alabama, co-sponsor of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932

Learned Hand , federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Harold R. Medina , federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Marriner S. Eccles , chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1934–1948)

George L. Harrison , governor and then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928–1940)

Adolph C. Miller , member of the Federal Reserve Board (1914–1936)

Benjamin Strong Jr. , governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914–1928)

Charles Sumner Hamlin , first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1914–1916), remained a member of the board until 1936

Paul M. Warburg , head of the International Acceptance Bank, involved in creating the Federal Reserve, on the first Washington board of governors

William O. Douglas , chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), future associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Ferdinand Pecora , New York prosecutor known as the “Hellhound of Wall Street” for leading an investigation of the city’s bankers in the wake of the 1929 crash

Arsène P. Pujo , Louisiana congressman and head of Committee on Banking and Currency, chaired the “Pujo Committee” investigation into the financial industry in 1912

Roger Babson , statistician and economist who predicted the crash

Irving Fisher , Yale professor, one of the nation’s leading economists

John Kenneth Galbraith , Harvard professor of economics

John Maynard Keynes , British economist

Joseph Stagg Lawrence , Princeton economist

Royal Meeker , pro–stock market economist

Claud Cockburn , British writer for The Times of London

Samuel Crowther , author of “Everybody Ought to Be Rich” for Ladies’ Home Journal

William Floyd , author of People vs. Wall Street

Major Robert H. Glass , newspaperman, father of Carter Glass

William Randolph Hearst , publisher of Hearst Newspapers

Matthew Josephson , writer who had worked in the financial industry

Edwin Lefèvre , author of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Walter Lippmann , writer, reporter, and political commentator

Charley Michelson , Hearst newspaper writer turned Democratic publicist

Alexander D. Noyes , financial editor of The New York Times

Drew Pearson , syndicated columnist of Washington Merry-Go-Round