R. Crosby Kemper Jr.

R. Crosby Kemper Jr.

R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. (born 1927) was born into an influential banking and railroading family in Kansas City, Missouri. His father was R. Crosby Kemper.

He attended Southwest High School in Kansas City, then transferred to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where he graduated in 1945.

After graduating from prep school, he served his country during World War II. After returning home, Mr. Kemper enrolled in the University of Missouri and became a member of the Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi [http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=savitar;cc=savitar;sid=bfbda456ae637097ccd859f5c74918b8;q1=Crosby%20Kemper;rgn=full%20text;idno=sav1947;view=image;seq=179] .

In 1950, he went to work for the United Missouri Bank, which is now UMB Financial Corporation. He later became president in 1959. He retired as chairman in 2004.

He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1962 on the Republican ticket and in the same year chaired the Kansas City Industrial Committee. He remains active in the running of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, which was named for him.

Kemper's college fraternity brother Sam Walton often referred to Mr. Kemper as his "personal banker."

External links

* [http://www.students.missouri.edu/~beta/articles/wall_main.htm University of Missouri biography]
* [http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2004/10/04/daily1.html Bizjournals profile]


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