American Olympian and sailor John Adams Morgan was born on September 17, 1930. He also founded and serves as chairman of Morgan Joseph. His great-grandfather J. P. Morgan founded J.P. Morgan & Co., and his father Henry Sturgis Morgan was a co-founder of Morgan Stanley.
Who is Sonja Morgan’s husband John Adams Morgan?
John rose to prominence as the ex-husband of Sonja Morgan, who debuted on Bravo’s reality show “The Real Housewives of New York” in 2010.
He was a partner in Dominick & Dominick from 1956 to 1966. He was a senior vice president in charge of the corporate finance department at Smith Barney from 1966 to 1982, as well as vice chairman of Smith Barney in charge of the firm’s merger and acquisition activities, a member of the executive committee, and a director of Smith Barney International Inc.
Morgan, J. P. Morgan’s great-grandson, founded Morgan Lewis Githens & Ahn, Inc. as a retail and brokerage firm in 1982. It organized a leveraged buyout of Olin’s Ecusta cigarette paper business with the Olin Corporation, an industrial chemical concern based in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1985. In 1987, the firm assisted in the $450 million cash and stock acquisition of Service America Corp. by Alleco Inc., formerly Allegheny Beverage Corporation.
