William B. Harrison Jr., born August 12, 1943, in

Rocky Mount, North Carolina Rocky Mount is a city in Nash and Edgecombe counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 54,341 as of the 2020 census, making it the 20th-most populous city in North Carolina. The city is east of Raleigh, the st ...

, is the former CEO and chairman of

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. He attended high school at Virginia Episcopal School, where he was a basketball star. He attended the

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, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. Having risen through the ranks of

Chemical Bank Chemical Bank, headquartered in New York City, was the principal operating subsidiary of Chemical Banking Corporation, a bank holding company. In 1996, it acquired Chase Bank, adopted the Chase name, and became the largest bank in the United Stat ...

before succeeding Walter V. Shipley during the Chemical Bank merger with the Chase Manhattan Corporation in 1995, which kept the Chase name. As Chairman and CEO of Chase, he and Douglas A. Warner III, then CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co., were the principal architects of the US$30.9 billion acquisition by Chase of J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000, to form JPMorgan Chase & Co. Harrison has been a director of the Firm or a predecessor institution since 1991. Harrison is also a director of Merck & Co., Inc. Jamie Dimon, former

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CEO, replaced Harrison as chairman on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's decision to step down from his chairman position of JPMorgan on December 31, 2006.

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* A.B. degree in economics from the University of North Carolina * Graduate of the Harvard Business School's International Senior Management Programme in Switzerland Director from 1991 to 2007 of JPMorgan Chase or a predecessor institution: * Vice chairman of the board of Chemical Banking Corporation and then The Chase Manhattan Corporation, 1991 through June 1999 * President and chief executive officer of The Chase Manhattan Corporation, June through Dec. 1999 * Chairman and chief executive officer of The Chase Manhattan Corporation, Jan. 2000 through its merger with J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated, in Dec. 2000 * President and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, Dec. 2000 through Nov. 2001 * Chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, Nov. 2001 through Dec. 2005 * Became chairman of JPMorgan Chase on December 31, 2005 Members of the Board Biography: William B. Harrison Jr.
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