Walter Wriston
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Walter Bigelow Wriston (August 3, 1919-2005) was a banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp.
Wriston was widely regarded as the single most influential commercial banker of his time from 1967 to 1984. (later Citigroup)
During his tenure as CEO, the bank introduced, among other innovations, automated teller machines, interstate banking, and the negotiable certificate of deposit, as well as "pursued the credit card industry in a way that no other bank was doing at the time."
Wriston saved New York City from bankruptcy in the mid-1970s by establishing the Financial Control Board and the Municipal Assistance Corporation, as well as persuading the city's union pension funds and banks to purchase the latter corporation's bonds.
Personal life
Walter Wriston married Barbara Brengle in 1942, with whom he had one child. Kathryn Dineen, a retired prosecutor and businesswoman, married her two years after she died in 1966.
Wriston died in Manhattan, New York City, New York, at the age of 85.
Early life and career
Wriston was born in Middletown, Connecticut to Ruth Bigelow Wriston, a chemistry teacher, and Henry Wriston, a history professor at Wesleyan University who was later president of Lawrence College and Brown University.
Wriston attended grade school and high school in Appleton, Wisconsin. Reared as a traditional Methodist, he was not allowed to listen to the radio or go to the movie theater on Sundays. Wriston was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
He attended Wesleyan University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941. While there, he was a member of the Eclectic Society and received the "Parker Prize" ("Awarded to a sophomore or junior who excels in public speaking"). He received a Master's Degree from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1942.
After graduate school, Wriston became a junior Foreign Service officer at the State Department, where he helped negotiate the exchange of Japanese interned in the United States for Americans held prisoner in Japan. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, he served in the U.S. Army for four years, being with the Signal Corps on Cebu in the Philippines during his service.