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Hunt Burke

E. Hunt Burke

Great-great-grandson of John W. Burke Person John W. Burke b. 1825 Senior partner who at age 27 joined the twenty-three-year-old on August 14, 1852 to open the Burke & Herbert Banking & Exchange Office at the corner of Prince and Lee Streets … ; fifth-generation Burke-family leader at Burke & Herbert Bank Business Burke & Herbert Bank founded 1852 Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the … .

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E. Hunt Burke is the fifth-generation Burke-family officer at Burke & Herbert Bank, the great-great-grandson of co-founder John W. Burke Person John W. Burke b. 1825 Senior partner who at age 27 joined the twenty-three-year-old on August 14, 1852 to open the Burke & Herbert Banking & Exchange Office at the corner of Prince and Lee Streets … . He has served as chairman and on the bank’s board of directors during the bank’s transition from a private partnership to a publicly listed company on Nasdaq. [1] Source 1 The Zebra, 'Brief Glimpse: Burke & Herbert Bank,' 2015 Website

Living-person privacy applies (per spec sec 11.2): only his published role at the bank is documented here, not personal residence or family details.

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    The Zebra (Alexandria), "A Brief Glimpse of Alexandria History: Burke & Herbert Bank," November 15, 2015.

    Website https://thezebra.org/2015/11/15/a-brief-glimpse-of-alexandria-history-burke-herbert-bank/ →

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