inducted 2006

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.

• < Prev