| 1 | Name: | The Honorable John C. Whitehead | |
| Institution: | Federal Reserve Bank of New York & International Rescue Committee & Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | ||
| Year Elected: | 1997 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1922 | ||
| Death Date: | February 7, 2015 | ||
John Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in Montclair, NJ. He graduated from Haverford College in 1943, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1947. After receiving his degree, he began at Goldman, Sachs & Company and retired in 1985 as co-chairman and senior partner. From 1985-89, he served as Deputy Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan. When he returned to New York, he became active in a number of educational, civic and charitable organizations, serving, at various times, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the United Nations Association, the International Rescue Committee, the Greater NY Councils of the Boy Scouts, the Brookings Institute and the National Gallery of Art. He had served as a director of the Nature Conservatory, Lincoln Center Theater, the East-West Institute, Rockefeller University, the J. Paul Getty Trust and the National Humanities Center, among others. In 2001 he was appointed as Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the organization responsible for the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan. He served in that capacity until May 2006. He was also the Founding Chairman of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. In 2012 he was awarded the Asia Society Award. John Whitehead was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1997. He died February 7, 2015, at age 92 at home in New York. | |||