Background
Talley, Lynn Porter was born on October 30, 1881 in Belton, Texas, United States. Son of Ratliff Palmer and Lavinia Caroline (Porter) Talley.
Talley, Lynn Porter was born on October 30, 1881 in Belton, Texas, United States. Son of Ratliff Palmer and Lavinia Caroline (Porter) Talley.
Graduated from the high school, Temple, Texas, 1898. Student Galveston Business U.
Began as stenographer with Weld & Neville, Temple, and G.,C.&San Francisco Railroad, 1900-1901. Traffic clerk, Weld & Neville, Waco, Texas, 1901-1902. With City National Bank, Dallas, as exchange teller, department head, assistant cashier, and cashier, 1903-1911.
Cashier Lumberman’s National Bank (now 2d National Bank), Houston, 1911-1915.
Cashier, later deputy governor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1915-1921. Vice president Southwest National Bank of Dallas (now consolidated with Republic National Bank & Trust Company), 1921-1923.
Again with Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as director, Chairman of the Board and federal reserve agent, 1923-1925, governor and chairman of the executive committee, 1925-1931. Chairman of the Board Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, San Francisco, 1931-1932.
Appointed assistant to directors Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Washington, District of Columbia, 1932.
Appointed president and chairman of the executive committee Commodity Credit Corporation, 1933, 39. Treasurer, trustee and member Executive Committee Export-Import Banks of Washington, 1933. Retired, 1940.
Member American Economic Association.
Married Martha Browning Downs, December 4, 1907. Children: Kathleen Downs (Mistress Charles M. Spence), Martha Downs, Carolynn Downs, Beatrice Anne.