Banker Data Challenge by State

Banker Information page for John Jay Knox

SPMC Bank Note History Project - Banker Data Challenge by State

See how your favorite State is doing in the Banker Data Challenge and help us out with gathering basic banker bio data (full name and birth/death dates) for the SPMC Banks & Bankers Database!

We already have almost all of the bankers who would have been signing National bank notes set up in the database (currently 65,000+ bankers). But most of those bankers are just in there with their first & middle initials, which makes it hard to identify them. So, we're trying to get basic info (full name and birth/death dates) into the database for as many of these bankers as we can. This information helps us tie together multi-bank (and multi-state) bankers and also provides a good starting point for further biographical research on these bankers.

How to Submit Basic Banker Bio Data

The easiest way to help us out with gathering basic banker bio data (full name and birth/death dates) is to locate the banker's FindAGrave.com page (or Wikipedia page if a famous person) and then submit that link to the Banks & Bankers Database. This link can easily be submitted when viewing that banker's Banker Information page in the Database.

To view a banker's Banker Information page, first you need to login to the Banks & Bankers Database from the SPMC.org website. Here is a link to the Bank Note History Project home page with instructions on how to get logged into the Banks & Bankers Database.

Once you are logged into the Banks & Bankers Database, the quickest way to get to a bank officer is to click on the Officer Search button in the upper left corner. Then, on the Bank Officer Search page, just type in the charter number for the bank your banker was associated with and click on the Search button to bring up a list of the bank officers for that bank. Find the banker in the list and click on the banker's name to bring up the Banker Information page. In the Comments, Links & Sources section, you will see instructions on how to submit a BioLink for that banker. See the screenshot to the right for an example of a Banker Information page. (Click on the image to enlarge it).

After a BioLink has been submitted for a banker, a database administrator will see that, and update the banker's bio info based on the link. The Banker Data Stats by State table below will be regularly updated with the latest banker counts. Thanks for helping us out!

Current Banker Data Stats by State

In the table below, the BankerBios column shows the number of bankers with basic bio info entered for them. The Total Bankers column is the number of bankers in the database for that state (including all Presidents & Cashiers, as well as VPs and Asst Cashiers that are known to have signed bank notes). The BankerPhotos column shows the number of bankers that have had their photo uploaded. This table will be updated regularly.

The table can be sorted based on any of the columns. Just click on the column header of the column you want to sort by. Clicking again on the column header will toggle thru the three sort order options. The arrow(s) on the sort column indicate the current sort order: Both-Arrows (Up & Down) is Original/Default sort order, Up-Arrow is Ascending, Down-Arrow is Descending.

Current Banker Data Challenge Stats (October 25, 2025)

State	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Pennsylvania	5176	81.3	6367	1326	20.8
Iowa	2720	97.6	2788	545	19.5
New York	1594	32.3	4936	735	14.9
Minnesota	1469	63.5	2315	435	18.8
Ohio	1272	37.4	3402	576	16.9
Illinois	1200	32.5	3689	573	15.5
Texas	1196	26.5	4510	674	14.9
Nebraska	1021	57.6	1773	473	26.7
Tennessee	988	97.8	1010	288	28.5
Oklahoma	953	38.2	2494	374	15
Massachusetts	885	39.8	2223	415	18.7
Maryland	830	100	830	193	23.3
Indiana	765	36.4	2102	311	14.8
Alabama	729	97.6	747	118	15.8
New Jersey	729	40.1	1817	265	14.6
Missouri	685	53	1293	258	20
California	628	33.1	1898	532	28
Washington	582	72.5	803	174	21.7
Kansas	550	26.3	2089	237	11.3
Oregon	515	73.7	699	88	12.6
Michigan	512	38.9	1315	334	25.4
Wisconsin	499	40	1249	217	17.4
Virginia	478	44.1	1084	117	10.8
Connecticut	405	50.6	801	230	28.7
Rhode Island	402	96.6	416	124	29.8
Maine	391	53.5	731	99	13.5
South Dakota	381	43.5	875	99	11.3
Kentucky	266	21.3	1248	109	8.7
Colorado	249	24	1036	137	13.2
North Carolina	241	40.8	590	81	13.7
Vermont	241	44.9	537	93	17.3
Wyoming	234	91.4	256	101	39.5
Idaho	219	50.9	430	106	24.7
Georgia	217	26	835	59	7.1
New Hampshire	210	40	525	104	19.8
North Dakota	202	18.9	1067	116	10.9
Utah	174	97.2	179	120	67
West Virginia	162	19.5	829	82	9.9
District of Columbia	124	93.2	133	37	27.8
Arkansas	122	23.2	525	71	13.5
Florida	117	22.1	530	59	11.1
South Carolina	117	28.7	407	64	15.7
Arizona	115	66.9	172	44	25.6
Montana	113	19.2	588	78	13.3
New Mexico	94	26.5	355	38	10.7
Mississippi	91	31.5	289	41	14.2
Louisiana	76	20.6	369	42	11.4
Delaware	58	30.4	191	4	2.1
Nevada	23	28.4	81	18	22.2
Alaska	18	75	24	3	12.5
Hawaii	13	72.2	18	8	44.4

All States	BankerBios	PctDoneBios	Total Bankers	BankerPhotos	PctDonePhotos
Totals	31053	47.4	65476	11426	17.5

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the following people who have helped with Banker Bio information for the SPMC Banks & Bankers Database:

Mark Anderson, Fred Benson, Frank Clark, Greg Culpepper, Dan Dieter, Patrick Doughney, Julie Drengson, Mark Drengson, Jim Ehrhardt, Manning Garrett, Loren Gatch, Todd Gylsen, Matt Hansen, Shawn Hewitt, Derek Higgins, David Hollander, Raiden Honaker, Peter Huntoon, Glen Jorde, Karl Kabelac, Sullivan Labno, William Lynch, Fred Maples, Robert Pfaff, Cord Polen, Jay Prestin, Richard Radick, Cody Regennitter, Michael Saharian, Tim Sanda, Gil Sem, Adam Stroup, Steve Sweeney, Andy Timmerman, Cory Williams.