First Bank System
American regional bank holding company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a former Minnesota-based bank holding company that renamed itself U.S. Bancorp in 1997. For the other banks with similar names, see First Bank (disambiguation).
First Bank System was a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based regional bank holding company that operated from 1864 to 1997. What was once First Bank forms the core of today's U.S. Bancorp; First Bank merged with the old U.S. Bancorp in 1997 and took the U.S. Bancorp name.
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First Bank | |
Formerly | First Bank Stock Corporation (1929–1968) |
Company type | public |
NYSE: FBS (1968–1997) | |
Industry | Banking |
Founded | 1864 in Minneapolis, Minnesota as First National Bank of Minneapolis |
Defunct | August 1, 1997; 26 years ago (1997-08-01) |
Fate | Changed name to U.S. Bancorp after acquiring U.S. Bancorp of Oregon |
Successor | U.S. Bancorp |
Headquarters | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Area served | Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Wyoming |
Key people | John Grundhofer |
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