Walter Bigelow Wriston was an American banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp.
14 Facts About Walter Wriston
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Walter Wriston attended grade school and high school in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Walter Wriston was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
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Walter Wriston attended Wesleyan University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941.
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Walter Wriston received a Master's Degree from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1942.
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Walter Wriston was twice offered the job of Secretary of the Treasury, once by Richard Nixon and once by Gerald Ford, but turned down both offers.
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One report is that Walter Wriston declined the offers because these were not made to him personally by the then-President.
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Walter Wriston would have had to take a substantial pay cut had he accepted the government position.
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Walter Wriston served as Chairman of The Business Council in 1981 and 1982.
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From 1982 to 1989, Walter Wriston was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board.
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In June 2004, Wriston was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, by President George W Bush.
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In 1942, Walter Wriston married Barbara Brengle, with whom he had one daughter.
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Walter Wriston died on January 19,2005, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, at the age of 85.
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Walter Wriston's papers, including the text of hundreds of speeches and articles spanning his lengthy career, are at Tufts University's Archives.