Los Angeles County
Biographies
WALTER J. BRAUNSCHWEIGER
Walter J. Braunschweiger, banker was born at Wellsville, New york, in 1894, and at eighteen entered the employ of Citizens National Bank of that city. Working up through various positions and obtaining the well-rounded grasp of banking possible in a small town, he became assistant national bank examiner in New York State and Pennsylvania. During this period he studied law, but as an aid in banking, his chosen profession.
Then followed various executive positions in banks of those two states, until 1922, when he visited California to make a study of branch banking. Appreciative of the great opportunity offered in the rapidly growing city of Los Angeles he accepted an invitation to become associated with the Bank of America, then being organized, as a vice president and director. He served that institution until its merger in February 1927, with the Bank of Italy, which today is the Bank of America, National Trust and Savings Association, where he has been a vice president since 1927 and more recently as executive vice president and a member of the Bank’s senior management committees.
Mr. Braunschweiger has always been actively engaged in community endeavors of Los Angeles County and City as a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce for many years and its president in 1935; director of the Los Angeles Welfare Association and Chairman of the Community Chest Campaign in 1936; director of the Los Angeles Downtown Business Men’s Association; president of the All-Year Club organization of Southern California; director and vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce 1944-48; active in the American Bankers Association and the Reserve City Bankers Association.
Mr. Braunschweiger is a member of numerous clubs in Los Angeles and the Bohemian Club of San Francisco.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 87, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Joyce Rugeroni.
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