"NYSE President" Charles R. Gay Hand Signed TLS Dated 1938 for Sale

"NYSE President" Charles R. Gay Hand Signed TLS Dated 1938 For Sale

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"NYSE President" Charles R. Gay Hand Signed TLS Dated 1938:
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Up for sale "NYSE President" Charles R. Gay Hand Signed TLS Dated 1938.

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Charles

Richard Gay (September 14, 1875 –

March 23, 1946) was an American banker who served as president of the

New York Stock Exchange. Gay was born in Brooklyn on September 14,

1875. He was a son of Charles Abram Gay and Anna

Mitchell (née Campbell) Gay. His younger brother was Robert Malcolm Gay, a

prominent English professor.

He was educated at Brooklyn Public School 35 before attending Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (today part of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering). After

"engaging in the fire insurance, banking and wholesale coal

businesses," he purchased his seat and became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in

1911, four years later forming the firm of Gay & Goepel. In 1919, he merged

his firm (then known as Charles R. Gay & Co.) with Whitehouse & Co.,

was reportedly the oldest firm on the Exchange.

In 1935, when he was senior partner at Whitehouse & Co. (with offices

on the 20th floor of 1 Wall Street), he was elected president

of the Exchange, succeeding Richard Whitney. Gay served three terms as president, retiring

in May 1938. He was president during a trying time for the

Exchange and financial markets and often traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Securities and Exchange

Commission and to participate with Senate inquiries.

After his tenure as president of the Exchange, he became the head of