Mortimer Norton Buckner (March 10, 1873 – February 25, 1942) was an American banker who served as president and chairman of the board of New York Trust Company, the New York Clearing House, and the National Credit Corporation. Early life Buckner was born on March 10, 1873, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and named after his maternal grandfather, who had died six months earlier. He was the only son of Newton Buckner (1841–1899) and Permelia Grant (née Norton) Buckner (1846–1933). Among his sisters were Katherine (née Buckner) Avery, Clara Norton Buckner (who died young), Minnie Norton (née Buckner) Barkley, Edith Fearn (née Buckner) Howard, and Frances Hewitt (née Buckner) Kemper. His paternal grandparents were Henry Sullivan Buckner, a cotton broker who built a mansion at 1410 Jackson Avenue in New Orleans in 1856, and Catharine (née Allan) Buckner. His aunt, Ellen Buckner, was the wife of U.S. Senator from Louisiana and Ambassador to France James B. Eustis. His maternal grandparents were Mortimer Oliver Hubbard Norton, a prominent New Orleans merchant, and Anna Richardson (née Grant) Norton, a first cousin of President Ulysses S. Grant (through his father, Jesse Root Grant, Anna's half-uncle). After attending the Cathedral School of St. Paul in Garden City, Buckner graduated from Yale University with the class of 1895. He later served as president of the Yale Club of New York until 1922 when he was succeeded by George Townsend Adee. In 1928, he was elected a Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the same year he received an honorary M.A. degree from Yale. He retired from the Yale Corporation in 1940. In 1932, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Colgate University. Career After graduating from Yale, Buckner worked as a traveling salesman and insurance salesman before coming to New York City in 1901 to join the Continental Trust Company as a clerk working out of the Blair & Co. Building on Broad Street. In 1903, he was made vice president of the company and the following year, Continental Trust merged with the New York Security and Trust Company. New York Security and Trust's president, Charles S. Fairchild, became chairman of the board of trustees, and Continental's president, Otto T. Bannard, became president of the new entity, which was renamed the New York Trust Company the following year in 1905. In January 1916, Buckner succeeded Bannard as president of the New York Trust Company and Bannard