Biographies

John F. Connor

Name:
John F. Connor

Born:
August 25, 1928

Joined AGB:
1960

Primary Dept/Div:
Credit Securities

Primary Office:
Chicago

John F. (Jack) Connor was born and raised in Beverly, a south suburb of Chicago. He graduated from Notre Dame cum laude in 1949 and ater two years in the U.S. Marine Corps became a Special Agent for the FBI in Miami and New York. In 1960, Jack joined Becker’s Chicago commercial paper department and quickly was successful in selling and buying promissory notes. Jack lived through the commercial paper disruption of 1963 and resisted the efforts of John Friedlich to join Lehman and desert Becker. Rather quickly, Jack was put in charge of the paper business and in due course hired Jack Donahue, Ray Ryan, and Tom York, among others, to build the business under his leadership. Jack became a member of the Board and the Executive Committee, and for a period of time, Executive Vice President and Treasurer. Joining Roger Brown, Jack retired in 1973. After retirement, Jack reentered the securities business as a Chicago partner of Steve Weiss, of Weiss, Peck, and Greer. In 1979, Jack returned to Becker as Vice-Chairman of A.G. Becker, in the Chicago office. Later, with Becker’s demise, Jack become an independent financial consultant before his death in 2004.

Obituary:
Chicago Tribune, April 20, 2004. John F. “Jack” Connor, beloved husband of Alice, nee Sebesta; loving father of two sons, two daughters and 12 grandchildren, two brothers, one sister and fond uncle of many. Internment at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Jack was a proud alumnus of St. Columbanus, DeLaSalle Institute and the University of Notre Dame. He was the founder of Notre Dame’s Leahy’s Lads Scholarship Fund. Jack was an active member of St. John Fisher Parish, Ridge Country Club and the Ye Olde Has Beens and a former member of the Mercy Hospital Board of Directors. Jack was employed as a Special Agent for the F.B.I. and as the Vice Chairman of A.G. Becker. He was the author of “Leahy’s Lads”, “Connor-The Life of George Connor” and numerous poems. Jack loved God, his family and his many friends.

Other Photos:

A.G.Becker & Co., Inc. Board of Directors, Late 1965. Seated, left to right: Vince Flett, Bill Mabie, James Becker, Paul Judy, Irv Sherman; standing, left to right: Roger Brown, Herb Schaffner, Mac Skall, Jack Connor, Jim Lewis, Harry Weber, Don Pearson, Maury Cann, and Dave Heller.

Board of Directors, A.G.Becker & Col, Inc. Mid -1966. Accross and around the table, from right to left: Herb Schaffner, Maury Cann, Roger Brown, Harry Weber, Mac Skall, Bill Mabie, Irv Sherman, James Becker, Paul Judy, Vince Flett, Don Pearson, Jack Connor, Jim Lewis, and Dave Heller.

Board of Directors and Former Directors, A.G.Becker & Co., Inc. December, 1967. Sitting, left to right: Jim Lewis, Don Pearson, Paul Judy, James Becker, Roger Brown, Jack Connor, Dave Heller; standing, left to right: Herb Schaffner, Ken Nelson, Mac Skall, Steve Weiss, Bill Mabie, John Mabie, Harry Weber, Dave Dattelbaum, Dick Gilder, Irv Sherman, Vince Flett, and Joe Levin.

Board of Directors, A.G.Becker & Co., Inc. 1968-69. Sitting, left to right: Roger Brown, Jim Lewis, Dave Dattelbaum, Harry Weber, James Becker, Irv Sherman, Bill Mabie, Ken Nelson; stanfing left to right: Mac Skall, Steve Weiss, Dave Heller, Bill Cockrum, Burt Weiss, Jack Connor, Al Kopin, John Mabie, and Paul Judy.

Board of Directors, A.G.Becker & Co., Inc. 1970. Sitting, left to right: Ray Ryan, John Mabie, Fred Moss, Roger Brown, Paul Judy, Jack Connor, Dave Peterson, Burt Weiss, Bob Vance; Standing, left to right: Bill Cockrum, Jack Donahue, Mac Skall, Jack Wing, John Levy, and Ray Holland.

Board of Directors, A.G.Becker & Co., Inc. Early 1974. Sitting, left to right: Roger Brown, Bill Cockrum, Mac Skall, Paul Judy, Ken Nelson; standing, left to right: Dave Heller, Fred Moss, John Mabie, Jack Donahue, Al Kopin, Jack Connor, Jack Wing, Ed Dugan, and John Levy.

OI#410 From left to right: Paul Judy, Ray Ryan, Fred Moss, and Jack Connor.

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