Edward Henry Harriman Simmons (August 21, 1876 – May 21, 1955) was an American banker and author who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange.

"[7] In 1928, he spearheaded efforts to form "an international campaign against security swindlers and fraudulent promoters, with the leading fraud-fighting agencies of the United States and in cooperation with those of the nations of Europe.

"[8] Reportedly: "The spiteful said that Simmons would really have preferred canonization, election to the papacy, or the role of lord mayor of London; that he had accepted only as a poor alternative the most important electoral office in the financial world.

For them he epitomized the puritanism of those twenty-four brokers who in May 1792 gathered under a buttonwood tree and drew up a written agreement to deal only with each other on a common commission basis, so forming the Exchange Simmons now presided over.

"[4]A prominent speaker and writer, in 1925, he delivered a speech before the annual convention of Investment Bankers of America in St. Petersburg, Florida entitled The Stock Exchange and American Banking.

[13] In January 1930, he delivered an address entitled: The Principal Causes of the Stock Market Crisis Of 1929 at the thirty first annual dinner of the Transportation Club at the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia.

[24] Together, they were the parents of: After the death of his first wife in 1920 from an "overdose of a drug taken to induce sleep,"[24] he remarried to the former Beatrice Vanderpoel Bogert (1881–1942) at the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church on October 4, 1929, just twenty days before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.