Business Administration Stephen Girard

Stephen Girard

Living place: France

Birthday: 20-5-1750

Global rank: #83844

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Who is Business Administration Stephen Girard?
Bank and philanthropist who single-handedly delivered the US government from the economic disaster of the War of 1812. His American name and legacy live above Philadelphia, where he lives.
He purchased a majority share of the First Bank of the United States in 1811 and later founded his own bank, which became the saving grace of the United States government during the War of 1812. .
 
 

Young / Before famous

He was born in Bordeaux, France, to a captain's father, and he pursued a career as a merchant, settling in Pennsylvania in 1776.

Family life info

He married Mary Lum in the 1770s. Several years later, Lum was institutionalized for serious psychological problems, and Girard became romantically involved with a woman named Sally BICKHAM.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Business Administration Stephen Girard?
He was named by authors Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther as one of the four richest people in history. Only John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John Jacob Astor possessed greater wealth than Girard.

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When was Business Administration Stephen Girard born?
Stephen Girard was born in 20-5-1750, death year is , at the age of 274.
Where is Business Administration Stephen Girard's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Stephen Girard was born in France. is a Business Administration, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Stephen Girard's global rank is 83844 and whose rank is 102 in list of famous Business Administration.
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Events in 1750 and 20-5

Birthday Stephen Girard (20-5) in history

  • Day 20-5 year 1506: The great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus passed away in Spain.
  • Day 20-5 year 1861: North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
  • Day 20-5 year 1927: Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.
  • Day 20-5 year 1932: Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
  • Day 20-5 year 1961: A mob attacked a busload of "freedom riders" in Montgomery, Ala., setting the bus on fire.
  • Day 20-5 year 1978: Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.
  • Day 20-5 year 1996: In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
  • Day 20-5 year 2002: East Timor became the what was then the world's newest nation.
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