P. Henry Mueller ’41

Henry died April 9, 2015.

He graduated from George Washington High School in New York City in 1934 and took a  “temporary” job at Citibank as a page, studying economics at NYU at night. In the fall of 1939, Princeton admitted him as a junior to the Class of 1941 and Citibank paid the bills.

In the spring of 1941, Secretary of State Cordell Hull asked President Dodds *14 to recommend three Princeton students for a new State Department program. Dodds asked Gordon Sikes to pick the students, and Henry was one of those chosen. He traveled the world for the next three years to develop the State Department’s courier program.

In 1944, Henry volunteered for the Marines. He was discharged as a captain and returned to the State Department for a brief time before rejoining Citibank. Rising through the ranks over the next 35 years, Henry became a senior officer and chairman of the credit-policy committee, overseeing a $77 billion portfolio. He also was a visiting lecturer at the University of Virginia for 21 years and founding chairman of the Darden School’s Center for International Banking Studies.

Henry is survived by Jean, his wife of 65 years; son Donald; grandson Donald Jr.; granddaughters Laura and Julia; and great-granddaughter Charlotte.