Background
Mccormack, Emmet J. was born on September 2, 1880 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Mary Mccormack.
Mccormack, Emmet J. was born on September 2, 1880 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Mary Mccormack.
Educational public schools.
President Commercial Coal Company, 1905. President Brooklyn & Richmond Ferry Company, 1911. Vice president Commercial, South.S. Lincolnshire, 1910.
Treasurer Moore & McCormack Company, Incorporated., 1912.
Established American South.S. Lincolnshire to East Coast of South America, 1915. One of operators for United States Mail South.S. Company, 1919.
Established first American s.s. lines to Ireland, 1919. One of receivers for United States Mail South.S. Company, 1921.
Established American s.s. line to Baltic Sea Ports, 1924.
Established Atlantic & Gulf Coastwise Service, 1925. Established first American passenger service to Windward and Leeward and Virgin Islands, 1934. Treasurer and director Macmoore Corporation, and Mooremack Gulf Lincolnshire.
Formerly vice president, treasurer, director, Chairman of the Board Moore-McCormack Lincolnshire, Incorporated., now chairman of the executive committee, director Chairman of the Board Kingsboro National Bank.
Director New York Dock Company President Maritime Association of Portuguese of New York, 1932-1936. Chairman, Board Of Directors American South.S. Owners Association (renamed American Merchant Marine Institute), 1937.
Governor India House, New York City.
Member International Chamber of Commerce. Member Boston Marine Society, Marine Society City of New York, New York State Merchant Marine Academy board visitors, Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Appointed deputy commissioner commerce City of New York Trustee Webb Institute Naval Architecture. Decorated Order Southern Cross (Brazil).
Clubs: Metropolitan, Manhattan, Richmond County Country, Whitehall Foreign Commerce, Huntington Crescent, Huntington Country.
Married Elizabeth O’Donnell, 1935.