The American College, the nation’s leading educator of financial service professionals, awarded its highest honor, the Huebner Gold Medal, to Charles R. Wright, CLU, ChFC on January 28, 2005 in the La Grassa Auditorium at the Gregg Conference Center on The College’s campus in Bryn Mawr.”As the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Agency and Marketing Officer at State Farm, Chuck personified professionalism and leadership,” said Larry Barton, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of The American College. “Agents from every part of the U.
College and its programs, and whose dedication to education and professionalism, have been of particular meaning to the mission and progress of the institution. Charles R. (Chuck) Wright, CLU, ChFC, is the retired senior executive vice president and chief agency and marketing officer at State Farm Insurance Companies, Bloomington, Ill. He is a member of the boards of directors of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm Life Insurance Company, and State Farm Fire and Casualty Company.Wright joined State Farm in 1963 as an agent in Minneapolis, Minn.
Minneapolis from 1967 to 1973, he was promoted to agency director in the Northeastern Regional Office in Wayne, N.J. Wright was executive assistant - agency at corporate headquarters from 1976 to 1978, when he was named deputy regional vice president at the Sunland Regional Office in Tempe, Ariz. He was elected vice president - agency in the agency executive office at corporate headquarters in 1981 and regional vice president in the Illinois Regional Office in Bloomington in 1988.
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