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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Peter F. Hurst, Jr.
Peter F. Hurst, Jr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Hurst, Peter F., 1955- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Bridgeport, Connecticut 2005 February 15.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Bank CEO and lawyer Peter Frederick Hurst, Jr. was born October 29, 1955 in Houston, Texas. Attending E.L. Blackshear Elementary School and Sidney Lanier Junior High School, Hurst graduated from Mirabeau Lamar High School with honors in 1974. Earning his A.B. degree in accounting magna cum laude from Duke University in 1978 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1981, Hurst then clerked for Detroit's federal district court judge Damon Keith. Hurst served in the general counsel's office of the Federal Reserve Bank until 1987. He then moved to New York to join E.F. Hutton and later Dean Witter. In 1990, he founded Hurst Capital Partners. In 2001, Hurst opened three branches of Community Bank, the only independent, minority-owned bank in Connecticut. He was chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president of Community Bank's parent company, Urban Financial Group. Hurst was honored in 2003 by the African American Affairs Commission of Connecticut.
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