Founded and later became president of Crocker National Bank. He donated the family's Nob Hill block for Grace Cathedral, chaired the Panama-Pacific Exposition Committee and SE Community Chest, and was a key member of the committee that built the Opera House and Veterans Building. When much of San Francisco was destroyed by the quake and fire of 1906, Crocker and his bank were major forces in financing reconstruction. Crocker was a University of California regent for nearly thirty years and funded the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory's second cyclotron. His father, Charles Crocker (1822-1888), had been a builder of the Central Pacific railroad.
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