Why Georgia 2020 ?
On the evening of November 22, 1910, Sen. Aldrich and A.P. Andrews (Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Department), Paul Warburg (a naturalized German representing Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), Frank A. Vanderlip (president of the National City Bank of New York),
Henry P. Davison (senior partner of J. P. Morgan Company), Charles D. Norton (president of the Morgan-dominated First National Bank of New York), and Benjamin Strong (representing J. P. Morgan), together representing about one fourth the world's wealth at the time,
left Hoboken, New Jersey on a train in complete secrecy, dropping their last names in favor of first names, or code names, so no one would discover who they all were. The excuse for such powerful representatives and wealth was to go on a duck hunting trip on Jekyll Island
Jekyll Island was the location of a meeting in November 1910 in which draft legislation was written to create a central banking system for the US. Following the Panic of 1907, banking reform became a major issue in the US. Senator Nelson Aldrich (R-RI), chairman of the National
Monetary Commission, went to Europe for almost two years to study that continent's banking systems. Upon his return, he brought together many of the country's leading financiers to Jekyll Island to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, drafting legislation which was
introduced in Congress as the "Aldrich Plan". Some ideas from the Aldrich Plan were later incorporated into the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.
The Jekyll Island Club members came from many of the world's wealthiest families, most notably the Morgans, Rockefellers,& Vanderbilts.
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