R. Crosby Kemper Jr.

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R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. (born 1920) was born into an influential banking and railroading family in Kansas City, Missouri. His father was R. Crosby Kemper.

He attended Southwest High School in Kansas City until he transferred to Phillips Andover High School in Massachusetts.

After graduating from prep school he served his country during World War II. After returning home, Mr. Kemper enrolled in the University of Missouri-Columbia and became a member of the Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi.

In 1950, he went to work for the United Missouri Bank, which is now UMB Bank of Kansas City. He later became president in 1959. He retired as chairman in 2004.

He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1962 on the Republican ticket and in the same year chaired the Kansas City Industrial Committee. He remains active in the running of The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, which was named in his honor.

Kemper's college fraternity brother Sam Walton often referred to Mr. Kemper as his "personal banker."