Clark Williams

Myron Clark Williams (born May 2, 1870 in Canandaigua , New York , † December 18, 1946 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) was an American banker and politician .

Career

Myron Clark Williams, son of Abigail Clark, daughter of New York Governor Myron H. Clark , and George N. Williams, a banker, was born in Ontario County in 1870 . Not much is known about his youth. He attended Canandaigua Academy and graduated in 1892 at Williams College in Williamstown ( Massachusetts ) where he became a member of the Kappa Alpha Society was. He later served as a trustee in the college for many years . Upon graduation, he became a clerk at First National Bank in New York City , then the New York Guarantee and Indemnity Company, and later the United States Mortgage and Trust Company, where he became Vice President. On April 29, 1897, he married Anna Murphy Plater in Nashville ( Tennessee ). A portrait of them by the Swiss- born American painter Adolfo Müller-Ury hangs today in the Williams College Faculty Club / Alumni Center, Williamstown.

In 1905 he left the United States Mortgage and Trust Company to co-found the Columbia Trust Company , of which he became the Vice President. On October 23, 1907, the Governor of New York Charles E. Hughes appointed him Superintendent of Banks. In November 1909, he was appointed New York State Comptroller to fill the vacancy created by the death of Charles H. Gaus . He held the post until the end of 1910. He then became President of the Windsor Trust Company and then the Industrial Finance Corporation.

During the First World War he served as a representative of the Red Cross in the 1st Infantry Division . He was present at the Battle of Cantigny and the Battle of Château-Thierry . He later held the post of Field Director in the Bureau of Army Field Service, responsible for all Red Cross activities during the Argonne Campaign. At the end of the war he held the rank of major . In 1922 he was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross for his services.

Mary Clark Thompson was his aunt.

literature

• Williams - Plater , The New York Times, April 30, 1897
• Clark Williams Heads State Banks , The New York Times, October 24, 1907
• Hughes Hits Bosses By Naming Williams , The New York Times, November 12, 1909
• New Head Of Windsor Trust , The New York Times, June 16, 1911
• Major Williams Honored , The New York Times, December 3, 1922

Web links

• Clark Williams on The Political Graveyard website

• Clark Williams in the database of Find a Grave (English)