James M. Fail
James M. Fail (March 28, 1926 – February 26, 2010) was an American financial executive, the chairman of Stone Holdings, Inc. and Bluebonnet Savings Bank. A native of Mobile, Alabama, he attended Murphy High Schooland served for three years in the U.S. Navy.After graduating from the University of Alabama (where he was a brother of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Beta chapter) in 1949, he began his career as a securities salesman for Merrill Lynch. In the following decades, Fail and his holding companies have owned and operated a variety of investment, mortgage, banking, savings and loan, and insurance businesses throughout the U.S.Fail was thrust into public attentionin 1990, when the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommitee held hearings scrutinizing his business activities, in particular his acquisition of a federally funded thrift despite a prior indictment for fraud and the criminal conviction of his company.More recently, he has been noted for a variety of philanthropic and community leadership efforts.
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| Birth date | March 28, 1926 |
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| Date of death | February 26, 2010 |