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john d. Rockefeller
Rockefeller worked in the oil industry, while Morgan was a banker.
Steel. Carnegie and Rockefeller (oil) were the power houses of the day, but J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie's business and made Carnegie the wealthiest man in the world at the time. America was also the world's largest steel producer and still is.
The cast of Excretory Rockefeller - 2008 includes: Morgan Russell Don Takano
John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan
Some of the so-called "Captains of Industry" included Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew W. Mellon.
The U.S. government rarely intervened in business affairs. Entrepreneurs like Morgan, Rockefeller and Carnegie did as they wished, true to the laissez-faire ideology (non-intervention).
Some of the most notorious corporate holding companies were the sugar trust, John D. Rockefeller's oil trust, and J. P. Morgan's steel trust. The original legal form of these organizations had been as business trusts.
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yes Rockefeller is richer than jp MorganNot necessarily. Yes, Rockefeller had a fabulously high net worth, much more than Morgan's, but you need to look at Morgan's holdings and their value.He owned General Electric, which in the dawn of the modern age, became of incomparable value, and the US Steel Corporation, which, as industrialization raged on, produced the single most valuable refined resources.Morgan was the most powerful man in the world during his time, and could easily have acquired a much more valuable net worth than Rockefeller if he so desired.
yes Rockefeller is richer than jp MorganNot necessarily. Yes, Rockefeller had a fabulously high net worth, much more than Morgan's, but you need to look at Morgan's holdings and their value.He owned General Electric, which in the dawn of the modern age, became of incomparable value, and the US Steel Corporation, which, as industrialization raged on, produced the single most valuable refined resources.Morgan was the most powerful man in the world during his time, and could easily have acquired a much more valuable net worth than Rockefeller if he so desired.
The Presidents during the gilded age are referred to as "forgettable" because America was going through its Industrial Revolution at that time, and the powerful business leaders at the time (Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, etc) dominated the nation rather than the government. Additionally, there was much corruption going on throughout America, and the forgettable Presidents did not do a successful job of properly eliminating this corruption. Thus, they are deemed forgettable.