Byron G.
Thompson was born July 22, 1932 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He
has been an Investment Banker for 50 years, twenty-nice years
at United Missouri Bank of Kansas City, serving as Vice
Chairman in charge of Investment Banking and twenty-one years
at Country Club Bank as Chairman. Also for the past 45 years,
he has been a major investor of various banks in Missouri and
Kansas. Byron’s civic activities include charter member of
the Board of Trustees of Rockhurst College; charter member of
the Board of Directors of St. Benedict’s College in Atchison,
Kansas; member of the Board of Trustees Midwest Research
Institute. He’s also been a past member of the following: the
Tenth District on the Federal Advisory Council of the Federal
Reserve Bank; the Investment Advisory Committee for the
endowment fund of Union Station; the Board of Trustees St.
Mary College in Leavenworth, KS; Prairie Village’s Kansas
Development Corporation; the Board of Directors of the Brain
Injury Association of Greater Kansas City; Director of St.
Joseph Hospital and Carondelet Health Corporation.
He has
been the recipient of several awards including the Kansas City
Spirit Award; the 2000 Van Ackeren Spirit Award; the Kindness
to Contagious Honoree, the Broderick Award; Member of the Man
of the Month Club; awarded the First Annual Ethics in Business
Award by Midwest Christian Counseling Institute (2006) and
inducted into the Junior Achievement’s Kansas City Business
Hall of Fame.
Byron
graduated from St. Benedict’s College 1955 with a BA in
Economics. He graduated with honor – Cum Laude. He is a Korean
War Veteran, USAF (served in U.S. and France, not Korea).
Rank: Airman First Class, Crew Chief for B-26. He is a father
of eleven children … with collective education provided them
of 59 years beyond high school. He is also grandfather
of 43 children.
