Talk:Amadeo Giannini

Giannini did not Found BoA alone
I have corrected the biography on Giannini's founding of Bank of America. While he was part of the Bank's establishment, BoA is a result of merger between Giannini's Bank fo Italy AND the Bank of America, Los Angeles which was founded by Orra E. Monnette in the early 1920s.

Furthermore, one of the reasons why Giannini pursued the merger was because Monnette's BoALA had a modern, advanced branch banking system established throughout Los Angeles prior to Giannini's involvement in BoA. Monnette took this knowledge and applied it to the Los Angeles Public Library, where he was Chairman of the Board of Trusties from the mid 1910s until his death in 1936.

While BoA PR has cranked out the fable that Giannini established Bank of America, they did because it made for good copy. Giannini did work his way up the America Dream - Monnette starting his banking career after his father struck Gold in Tonapah Neveada in the early 1900s.

If you wish to verify this infomration, contact the Los Angeles Public Library's special collections division, or check the BoA historical Board Minutes from 1928. Stude62 22:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Good reference
This from the BBC tells Giannini's story, with more material that we haven't got yet.

bbc article
here dm (talk) 16:26, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

A.P. Giannini
I have always read about him under the name A.P. Giannini. this should be an alternate name, which i will add. (mercurywoodrose)66.80.6.163 (talk) 18:54, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Giannini was NOT "Italian American"
A.P. Giannini was NOT "Italian American;" he was BORN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and this makes him an AMERICAN of Italian DESCENT. Satchmo Sings (talk) 22:10, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Just a reminder, Italian American is an ethnicity not a nationality. An American of Italian descent can also be an Italian American. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 05:13, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

== A.P. Guanini was known as crooked. He advised his employees not to sell shares of bank stock after crash in 1929. Later employees namely Daniel C. Murphy discovered had sold stocks. Daniel C. Murphy was the Market street bank manager. State Senator and... ==

O EllenMarie1969 (talk) 06:48, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

A.P. Giannini had 6 children, not 2.
Three of his children did not survive childhood. Only 2 were living at the time of his death.

A.P. Giannini and the Fugazi Banca Popolare Operaia Italiana
Adding a note for future development. I saw citations that stated A.P. Giannini had been a member of the Fugazi Bank's board of directors prior to 1904. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 05:18, 14 November 2022 (UTC)