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John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr. (September 7, 1867 — March 13, 1943) was an American banker and philanthropist.

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Philanthropy

In 1920 he gave his London residence, 14 Princes Gate (near Imperial College London), to the U.S. government for use as its embassy. In 1938 the Hon. Joseph P. Kennedy, having been appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, moved his family into this building and thus a future President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, came to call this building home.

Later Morgan created the Pierpont Morgan Library as a public institution in 1924 as a memorial to his father. Belle da Costa Greene, Morgan's personal librarian, became the first director and continued the aggressive acquisition and expansion of the collections of illuminated manuscripts, authors' original manuscripts, incunabula, prints, and drawings, early printed Bibles, and many examples of fine bookbinding. Today the library is a complex of buildings which serve as a museum and scholarly research center.


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