Walter Wallace Kennedy

Background

Kennedy, Walter Wallace was born on December 20, 1898 in Birmingham. Son of Hughes Benjamin and Katherine (Hausman) Kennedy.

Education

Bachelor of Laws, University Alabama, 1921. Student Graduate School Banking, Rutgers University, 1945-1947.

Career

Admitted to Alabama bar, 1921. Practiced in Birmingham, 1921-1926. Assistant to president Birmingham Electric Company, 1926-1929.

Assistant trust officer First National Bank Birmingham, 1929-1935.

Trust officer First Alabama Bank of Montgomery North.A., 1935-1943, executive vice president, 1943-1948, president, 1948-1964, Chairman of the Board, 1964-1969, honorary Chairman of the Board, 1969-1978, also director Vice president 1st Alabama Bancshares, Incorporated., 1970-1978.

Chairman board regents Graduate School Banking, Rutgers University, 1963-1967. Treasurer, Community Chest Montgomery, 1947-1949, vice president, 1953.

Montgomery Tuberculosis Sanitorium, 1948-1949.

President Montgomery Area council Boy Scouts American, 1937-1940. Director Montgomery County American Red Cross, vice president, 1952-1953.

Achievements

• Walter Wallace Kennedy has been listed as a noteworthy banker. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served Lieutenant, infantry United States Army, 1918-1919. Member American Amateur Artists Association, University of Alabama Alumni Association (president 1949), American Bar Association, Alabama (past president), American (president trust division 1957-1958) bankers associations, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Gamma Delta. Rotarian.; Clubs: Montgomery Country.

Connections

Married Myra Belle Pope, September 28, 1926. Children: Walter, Ann Carter, Carol Pope.

Father:

Hughes Benjamin Kennedy

Mother:

Katherine (Hausman) Kennedy

Spouse:

Myra Belle Pope

child:

Carol Pope Kennedy

child:

Ann Carter Kennedy

child:

Walter Kennedy