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John C. Bogle

Founder of the Vanguard Group and pioneer of index mutual funds.

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Dates
8 May 1929 – 16 Jan 2019
Also known as
Jack Bogle, John Clifton Bogle
Background
  • Born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1929.12
  • Worked his way through Blair Academy and Princeton as a waiter.1
Over time
  1. Life 8 May 1929 – 16 Jan 2019
  2. worked at Wellington Management Company (president (from 1967)) Jul 1951 – Jan 1974

John C. Bogle founded The Vanguard Group in 1975 and launched one of the first index mutual funds the next year. The name Vanguard has nothing to do with the US satellite program Project Vanguard.

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  • Wellington Management Company Jul 1951 – Jan 1974 president (from 1967) Primary record 146

    Hired in July 1951 by Walter L. Morgan for his firm; president from 1967. The firm's board removed him as president in January 1974.

Timeline 4 dates
  1. 8 May 1929 – 16 Jan 2019 John C. Bogle
  2. Jul 1951 – Jan 1974 John C. Bogle worked at Wellington Management Company
  3. 24 Sep 1974 John C. Bogle founded The Vanguard Group
  4. 31 Aug 1976 John C. Bogle founded Vanguard 500 Index Fund
Proof 6 sources
  1. Vanguard Announces The Passing Of Founder John C. Bogle, The Vanguard Group, 16 Jan 2019. Primary record Archived copy
    Mr. Bogle was born May 8, 1929, in Montclair, New Jersey.
    He worked his way through Blair Academy and Princeton University as a waiter and also managed Princeton’s athletic ticket office.
    Seven years later, a management dispute with the principals of TDPL led Mr. Bogle to form Vanguard in September 1974 to handle the administrative functions of Wellington’s funds, while TDPL/Wellington Management would retain the investment management and distribution duties.
    Mr. Bogle worked in several departments before becoming assistant to the president in 1955, the first in a series of executive positions he would hold at Wellington: 1962, administrative vice president; 1965, executive vice president; and 1967, president.
  2. John Bogle, Vanguard founder, dies at 89, Associated Press (via WHYY), 16 Jan 2019. Scholarship & press
    John Clifton Bogle was born in May 1929 in Montclair, New Jersey
  3. Vanguard's history, The Vanguard Group. Primary record
    John C. Bogle has a revolutionary idea to build a mutual fund company that takes a stand for all investors.
  4. Reflections on the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: remarks before the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group, 16 September 1997, The John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy, 16 Sep 1997. Primary record
    “The Vanguard Group, Inc.” was incorporated on September 24, 1974.
    The strange bedfellows, who had fallen from whiz-kids to goats in just seven years, had a falling out, and my Boston partners mustered the power to fire me as President of Wellington Management Company on January 23, 1974.
  5. 50 years. 50 facts. Indexing since 1976., The Vanguard Group, 2 Apr 2026. Primary record
    When John C. Bogle launched Vanguard 500 Index Fund on August 31, 1976, as First Index Investment Trust, he gave individual investors access to a strategy previously available only to institutional investors.
  6. “Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia”: remarks before the Society of Friends, Philadelphia, 9 November 2017, The John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy, 9 Nov 2017. Primary record
    On July 9, 1951, I joined Wellington and the fund industry, the first “full time” job in my long career.
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