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9 unusual facts about AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company


AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, also known as The Equitable, was founded by Henry Baldwin Hyde in 1859.

James Waddell Alexander, the son of James Waddel Alexander, was the company president at the time of the Hyde costume ball scandal in 1905, in which James Hazen Hyde, the son of the founder and a vice president of the company, was falsely accused through a media smear campaign initiated by Alexander and board directors E. H. Harriman, Henry Clay Frick, J.P. Morgan of charging a fabulous $200,000 costume ball to the company.

Equitable Life Insurance opened its headquarters at the Equitable Life Building in 1875 near Wall Street.

Equitable Life

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

Erwin Kreuz

Kreuz returned to Bangor exactly a year later (October 1978) for a month-long visit, courtesy of the Equitable Life Assurance company, to officiate at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new Bangor Mall.

J. Reuben Clark

A week after joining the First Presidency, Clark was asked to fill a position on the board of directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, headquartered in New York.

James Waddell Alexander II

His maternal grandfather, James Waddell Alexander, was the president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.

Julius Stahel

Upon returning to the United States for reasons of health, Stahel worked for the Equitable Life Insurance Company in New York City.

Whiting Williams

In 1916, Williams obtained a group promoting and selling group insurance as a special representative for the Equitable Life Assurance Society.


Archibald Alexander

His second son, William Cowper Alexander (1806–1874) served as president of the New Jersey State Senate and as the first president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.

James Waddel Alexander

Alexander became a patron of Henry Baldwin Hyde, who founded the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1859.

His younger brothers included William Cowper Alexander (1806-1874), president of the New Jersey State Senate and first president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and Joseph Addison Alexander (1809-1860), a biblical scholar.


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