James Fairfield English Jr. (February 15, 1927 June 2, 2020) was an American bank executive and college president.
Early years
Born in
Putnam, Connecticut
Putnam is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,224 at the 2020 census.
History
Putnam, originally known as Aspinock, then part of Killingly, is a New England mill town incorporated in 1855. Created from se ...
, English attended and graduated from the
Loomis Chaffee School. In 1944, he enlisted in the Army and was assigned to a Japanese language program. Upon completion, he served in the 441st Counter Intelligence Detachment, part of the
Counterintelligence Corps
The Counter Intelligence Corps (Army CIC) was a World War II and early Cold War intelligence agency within the United States Army consisting of highly trained special agents. Its role was taken over by the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in 1961 and ...
, in the
occupation of Japan
Japan was occupied and administered by the victorious Allies of World War II from the 1945 surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of the war until the
Treaty of San Francisco took effect in 1952. The occupation, led by the United States wi ...
. He graduated from
Yale College in 1949 and was the recipient of the Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize as the Bachelor of the Arts graduate with the highest ranking in scholarship.
Career
In 1951, English took a job at the
Connecticut Bank and Trust Company, where he ultimately became president, then chairman, and CEO.
From 1981 to 1989, he served as President of
Trinity College Trinity College may refer to:
Australia
* Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales
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in
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...
.
See also
*
List of Trinity College (Connecticut) people
References
1927 births
2020 deaths
American bank presidents
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
Military personnel from Connecticut
People from Putnam, Connecticut
Presidents of Trinity College (Connecticut)
United States Army personnel of World War II
Loomis Chaffee School alumni
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