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Emma C. Chappell

1941–2021

United States

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Emma Carolyn Chappell (née Bayton, February 18, 1941 – March 16, 2021) was an American banker who founded and was CEO of the United Bank of Philadelphia. She was the second African-American woman to found a bank in the US after Maggie L. Walker in 1903. She was the first African-American woman to found a full-service commercial bank in the US and the first female vice president of a major bank in the state of Pennsylvania.

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