Mortimer N. Buckner

Buckner was born on March 10, 1873, in New Orleans, Louisiana,[2] and named after his maternal grandfather, who had died six months earlier.

[12] After attending the Cathedral School of St. Paul in Garden City,[4] Buckner graduated from Yale University with the class of 1895.

[25] He was reelected in 1932,[26] and served in the role until October 1933 when Buckner retired (in accordance with custom), and was succeeded by George W. Davison (chairman of Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company).

"[1] During the Great Depression, Brucker "was the originator, organizer and driving force behind virtually every cooperative effort by the Wall Street bankers to meet the tide of deflation."

[31] After his death in 1942, Governor Herbert H. Lehman nominated F. Abott Goodhue (president of the Bank of Manhattan Company) to take his place.

[1] He was president of the Realty Stabilization Corporation and in November 1933 when sixty-four committees of bankers and business men were appointed by the Reconstruction Corporation to speed liquidation of more than $3,000,000,000 of assets of closed national and state banks,[33] he was named district chairman for the Second Federal Reserve District, comprising New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.

[38] His seat on the board of National Distillers Products Corporation was filled by then president of New York Trust, John E.

They were the parents of: Between 1927 and 1929, Buckner hired the Olmsted Brothers to design the landscape architecture at his summer residence in Fishers Island, New York.

[1] After a service attended by former President Herbert Hoover at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, he was buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.

[48] Buckner left a gross estate of $387,086, while his debts, administration and funeral expense total $1,320,240, primarily state and federal taxes.