Background
Hope, Clarence Caldwell was born on February 5, 1920 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Clarence Caldwell and Margaret Boyd (Kidd) Hope.
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Clarence Caldwell Hope
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Diploma, Mars Hill College, 1941; Bachelor of Science, Wake Forest College, 1943; diploma, Harvard University Graduate School Business Administration, 1944; diploma, Rutgers University Graduate School Banking, 1953, 56; Doctor of Laws, Campbell U.
Career
With, Esso Standard Oil Corporation, 1946-1947; with, First Union National Bank North Carolina, Charlotte, 1947-1985; successively branch manager, manager credit department, assistant cashier, assistant vice president, vice president, First Union National Bank North Carolina, Dilworth senior vice president, First Union National Bank North Carolina, Dilworth, 1956-1960; executive vice president, First Union National Bank North Carolina, Dilworth, 1960-1977; vice Chairman of the Board, First Union National Bank North Carolina, Dilworth, 1977-1985; also director, secretary board, First Union National Bank North Carolina, Dilworth secretary commerce, State of North Carolina, 1983-1985; director, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, since 1986; chairman, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, since 1991. Executive vice president, director 1st Union Corporation.
Membership
Board of directors, past president Mecklenburg County chapter American Red Cross, also member Southeastern area advisory council, fund vice chairman for North Carolina. Member social planning council United Appeal. President Central Charlotte Chairman's Association North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.
Chairman of the board of trustees Wake Forest U. Trustee Public Library Charlotte and Mecklenburg Counties. Vice-chairman North Carolina Baptist Hospital.
Trustee Annuity Board Southern Baptist Convention. Dean for bankers SouthwesternGrad. School Banking, Southern Methodist U., Chairman of the Board foundation Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, World World War World War II.
Member American Bankers Association (member governing county, government relations county, administrative committee. Chairman of Commission cooperation with bank regulatory agys., pres.1979-1980), North Carolina Bankers Association (chairman legislation committee), Association Registered Bank Holding Companies (chairman government relations committee), United States Chamber of Commerce (public affairs committee), Charlotte Merchants. Association (treasurer, director, president, chairman finance committee), Bankpac (national chairman), Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Robert Morris Associations(past president Carolina-Virginias chapter), Newcomen Society, Wake Forest U., Central Charlotte Association (past president), Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Beta Gamma Sigma.
Connections
Married Mae D. Duckworth, February 5, 1944. Children: Stephen Douglas, Clarence Caldwell III, Joan Jennings.
