Albert Hamilton Gordon

{{short description|American businessman}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Albert Hamilton Gordon

| birth_date = July 21, 1901

| birth_place = Scituate, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|05|01|1901|07|21}}

| death_place = New York, New York, U.S.

| education = Harvard University (BA, MBA)

| occupation = Wall Street entrepreneur

}}

Albert Hamilton Gordon (July 21, 1901 – May 1, 2009),{{cite news|title=Albert Gordon, Who Rebuilt Kidder Peabody, Dies at 107|first=Douglas|last=Martin|date=May 1, 2009|accessdate=May 2, 2009|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/business/02gordon.html}} was an American businessman who transformed the Wall Street firm of Kidder Peabody. He bought the firm in 1931 and remained its chairman until selling it to General Electric in 1986. He made cold calls to potential clients well into his 90s and continued to come to his office at Deltec Asset Management several times a week until he was over 100.

Past 100 years old he continued to serve as the chairman of the Trollope Society[http://www.trollopeusa.org/tsociety/dinners.html Website of the Trollope Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509222528/http://www.trollopeusa.org/tsociety/dinners.html |date=2009-05-09 }} and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roxbury Latin School, having graduated from there in 1919 and served as a Trustee since 1940; among his philanthropic activities were generous donations both to the School and to Harvard University. Unknown to many as a bibliophile, Gordon donated the only surviving copy of John Eliot's 1663 “Indian Bible” to Roxbury Latin School{{cite web |url=http://www.observer.com/2009/friendship-land-lost-content |title=Friendship in the Land of Lost Content | the New York Observer |website=The New York Observer |accessdate=2012-02-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509094102/http://www.observer.com/2009/friendship-land-lost-content |archivedate=2009-05-09 }}

In his later years, Gordon was still actively involved in investments and was bearish on U.S. stocks prior to the 2008 financial crisis.{{cite news| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEdasIztSWlc | work=Bloomberg | title=Gordon, Wall Street Icon at 105, Avoids U.S. Stocks (Update1) | date=August 30, 2006}}

At the time of his death, he was the oldest living alumnus of The Roxbury Latin School, Harvard College and Harvard Business School.[http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/09-oldest.html Harvard University Gazette Online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509213542/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/09-oldest.html |date=2009-05-09 }} He was also a trustee of the New York Road Runners Club.