The secret meeting hosted by Senator Nelson Aldrich at the Jekyll Island Club in November 1910 included six key men who gathered to draft a blueprint for a U.S. central banking system (which later laid the foundation for the Federal Reserve). The attendees were:
1. Nelson W. Aldrich – Republican Senator from Rhode Island and Chairman of the National Monetary Commission.
2. A. Piatt Andrew – Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and former Harvard economics professor.
3. Henry P. Davison – Senior partner at J.P. Morgan & Co.
4. Charles D. Norton – President of the First National Bank of New York (associated with the Morgan interests).
5. A. Arthur Shelton – Secretary to the National Monetary Commission.
6. Frank A. Vanderlip – Vice President of the National City Bank of New York (representing Rockefeller interests).
7. Paul M. Warburg – Partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and a leading expert on European central banking systems.
