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Biography of A. P. GianniniName: A. P. GianniniBirth Date: May 6, 1870 Death Date: June 3, 1949 Place of Birth: San Jose, California, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: businessman, banker, financier A. P. Giannini Within the pantheon of 20th-century American business leaders stands the Italian-American A. P. Giannini (1870-1949). As financier and banker he transformed the nature of banking in large and small ways; as an Italian-American he became a symbol of legitimate success and a source of practical help to immigrants and an inspiration to their descendants.Amadeo Peter Giannini was born May 6, 1870, in San Jose, California, to Virginia and Luigi Giannini, immigrants from Genoa. The Gianninis possessed enough resources to lease a hotel in San Jose. After several years of successful hotel-keeping, Luigi purchased a 40-acre farm. He was killed in 1877 by a disgruntled worker in a quarrel over a one dollar debt. The following year Virginia married Lorenzo Scatena, who had worked his way to America from Lucca as a sailor. The Scatena family moved in 1882 to San Francisco, where Lorenzo took a job with a fruit wholesaling company in the district …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…providing financial services, he is credited with having helped save alien Italians from the loss of their property and civil rights in California at the outbreak of World War II. Associated Organizations Associated Events San Francisco earthquake, 1906 Further Reading A. P. Giannini is listed in the Biographical Dictionary of American Leaders (1983) and in the Dictionary of American Biography Supplement. The most complete and authoritative account is Marquis and Bessie James, Biography of a Bank (1954). Andrew F. Rolle, The Immigrant Upraised (1968) sets Giannini's accomplishments in the context of the western American experience, as does Erik Amfitheatrof, The Children of Columbus (1973).Bonadio, Felice A., A.P. Giannini: banker of America, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. James, Marquis, Biography of a bank; the story of Bank of America N.T. & S.A., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971.Nash, Gerald D., A.P. Giannini and the Bank of America, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. |