Background
Eccles is the son of Spencer Stoddard Eccles and Pauline Hope Fox and the grandson of David Eccles, the Utah banker and industrialist.
chairman Financier philanthropist
Eccles is the son of Spencer Stoddard Eccles and Pauline Hope Fox and the grandson of David Eccles, the Utah banker and industrialist.
Bachelor of Science, University Utah, 1956. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1959. Degree in business (honorary), Southern Utah State College, 1982.
Bachelor of Laws (honorary), Westminster College, Salt Lake City, 1986.
From 1982 to 2000 he was chairman and chief executive officer of First Security Corporation of Salt Lake City, which was, until its sale to Wells Fargo in 2000, the largest banking organization in the Mountain West measured by assets, deposits and market capitalization. In addition to his role at First Security, Eccles has also been a director of the Union Pacific Railroad, Intermountain Health Care, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the National Chamber of Commerce, the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution Corporation, the Anderson Lumber Company, Amalgamated Sugar, the Alta Ski Corporation, the United States. Ski and Snowboard Association, and the National Parks Foundation. The Eccles family is noted for its philanthropy in the West, and Eccles is actively involved in many of the various Eccles family foundations, including as chairman of the George South. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, the largest philanthropic foundation in Utah, president of the Eccles Foundation, which he founded, and of the Marriner South. Eccles Foundation, and trustee of the Emma Eccles Jones Foundation and the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation.
He earned a bachelor of science in finance in 1956 from the University of Utah, where he was also a member of Beta Theta Pi, and a master of business administration in 1958 from Columbia University School of Business.
Married Cleone Emily Peterson, July 21, 1958. Children: Clista Hope, Lisa Ellen, Katherine Ann, Spencer Peterson.
