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J.P. Morgan
15 August 20261837 – 1913 · American

J.P. Morgan was the architectural genius of American capitalism who transformed a chaotic marketplace into an ordered industrial empire. As the most powerful banker in history, he single-handedly stabilized the nation’s financial system while forging the corporate giants that defined the twentieth century.
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