Background
R. Kemper III was born on January 7, 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, in the family of R. Crosby, Jr. and Cynthia (Warrick) Kemper.
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R. Kemper III was born on January 7, 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, in the family of R. Crosby, Jr. and Cynthia (Warrick) Kemper.
In 1974 R. Kemper graduated from Yale University. At Yale, he majored in history and spent long hours studying politics, philosophy and Renaissance England.
After Oxford rejected his graduate-school application, he spent several years in New York City, selling T-shirts on 59th Street and working on a book about imperialism. He returned to Kansas City in 1977 to start an on-again, off-again relationship with the family business. Over the next two decades, he fought with his father, took his leave of UMB for a decade and then went back.
Since 1993 Kemper is the president of UMB Bank of St. Louis. He also was a vice-chairperson of board of directors at UMB Financial Corp. He is the co-founder of Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, and vice-president and member of board of directors at St. Louis Repertory Theater.
To influence the system, he made his own run at politics, mounting a bid for the Missouri Senate at the dawn of the Reagan revolution. His platform emphasized education and pushed the idea of charter schools before they had a name.
On August 14, 1974 Kemper married Kate Gill, but they divorced in 1992. Then he married Hilary Noonan on June 13, 1992. He has two daughters, Tara and Susan, from the first marriage, and the son James Lawson from the second one.
