Pujo Committee

JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress

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John Pierpont Morgan, the seventy-five-year-old financier who had dominated American banking for decades, died at the Grand Hotel in Rome. House of Morgan partners blamed his death on the stress of testifying before the Pujo Committee in December 1912, though other health factors were involved. …

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