George Earle Warren (died January 28, 1971) was an American investment banker who served as Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank. He was also clerk of the

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Biography

Warren graduated from Columbia College in 1903 and joined the

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, which became the New York Trust Company. In 1909, he moved to the Columbia Trust Company as trust officer, becoming Vice President in 1915. He continued to hold that office when Columbia Trust was merged in 1923 with the

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. He joined Chase National Bank in 1925 and retired in 1947. At Chase Manhattan, he was Vice President and concurrently served as director of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. In 1935, he was elected life trustee of

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, and associate clerk of the

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in 1939. After retiring from banking, he took on an unsalaried position at Columbia, becoming clerk in 1958. He was also a trustee of the

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, the

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, the

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, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association of

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Awards

Warren received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity in 1936 from the

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, in recognition of his restoration of the

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. In 1937, he received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from

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Personal life

Warren died on January 28, 1971, in

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, after suffering a sudden illness.

References

1971 deaths JPMorgan Chase people Columbia College (New York) alumni American bankers American financiers 20th-century American businesspeople