[1] In 1928, after considering graduate study at Harvard, Hull turned down an offer from "a relative to join him in the feedâmanufacturing business" and, instead, became a salesman for Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York in Meridian, Mississippi.
[6] In 1969, he was named chairman and chief executive of Mutual Life while J. McCall Hughes became president.
[7] Hull was "credited with devising his company's program for the lifetime compensation of agents in an effort to encourage men to make careers as insurance salesmen.
"[1] He was elected one of three public governors of the New York Stock Exchange in 1969,[8] and was chairman of the American College of Life Underwriters.
He had also served as chairman of the Life Insurance Association of America, a director of the Million Dollar Round Table, Academy of Political Science, the Health Insurance Institute, the New York Better Business Bureau, chairman of the Religion in American Life program, a member of the Salvation Army New York advisory board, a trustee the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company,[9] a trustee of the United Presbyterian Foundation and chairman of Billy Graham's 1957 New York Crusade.