Business Leaders

Industrialists, financiers, and entrepreneurs whose enterprises built and reshaped the American economy.

Andrew Carnegie

Scottish-born steel magnate and America's greatest philanthropist

Cornelius Vanderbilt

The railroad and shipping baron who built the template for American monopoly capitalism

Henry Ford

Industrialist who put the automobile within reach of ordinary Americans

J.P. Morgan

Banker, Financier, and Architect of American Industrial Power

John D. Rockefeller

Founder of Standard Oil and the wealthiest private citizen in American history

Madam C.J. Walker

The washerwoman who built a beauty empire and a Black fortune