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 JOHN
POOLE, the new president of International Rotary, was born at
Parkersburg, W. Va., May 17, 1875, , but has lived in the Capital of the
United States since he was four months old. He was educated in the
public schools of Washington, and on September 5, 1890, just exactly
fifteen years after moving to that city, he entered the service of the
United States Express Company as a clerk. John remained with the express
company for ten years, when he secured a position with the Washington
Loan & Trust Company and began his career as a banker. Eight years later
he resigned his position as note teller to become assistant cashier of
the National City Bank, in June, 1908. The following year he became
cashier of the Commercial National Bank where he remained until January
14, 1913. At that time he resigned and organized the Federal National
Bank , of which institution he was and still is the president.
Poole is a charter member of the Washington Chapter of
the American Institute of Bankers, of which he was president for two
years, from August, 1906 to May, 1908. In 1916‑17 he was president of
the District of Columbia Bankers' Association. |
At Present, he is the state vice‑president of the
American Bankers Association; chairman of the Central Liberty Loan
Committee for the District; chairman of the Potomac Division of the
American Red Cross; member of the National Finance Committee of the Red
Cross; treasurer of the District Council of Defense, treasurer of the Y. M. C. A., treasurer of the Columbia Country
Club, treasurer of the National junior Republic‑Washington Committee;
director of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company; director of the
Washington Board of Trade.
John is an old member and president of the Washington
Rotary Club. He is a member of the Presbyterian church; a 32nd degree
Scottish Rite Mason, and Senior Warden of Temple‑Noyes Lodge No. 32, F.
A. A. M.
He was married, October 19, 1898, to Dorothy Landers, and
has four children, a daughter and three sons, and a grandchild.
Provided by
Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler,
Rotary Global History August 2003
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