James A. Attwood

James Albert Attwood Sr. (June 1, 1927 – October 31, 1989) was an American insurance executive.

Early life Attwood was born on June 1, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan. In 1983, he joined the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and became its chairman and chief executive before he retired in July 1988. In joining MONY, Attwood went "to the ninth-largest mutual insurance company from the third largest and will be moving three and a half blocks in Manhattan to his new headquarters." He was MONY's 14th chief executive in its 140-year history. In 1987, Richard S. Schweiker, then president of the American Council of Life Insurance (and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services), said of him: and was a member of the board of the Committee for Economic Development and the New York City Partnership, Fisk University and the New York Theological Seminary. Together, they lived in Bronxville, New York and were the parents of: Terry Jo Attwood, who married Thomas J. R. Beckmann, a son of Harry L. Beckmann, in 1986. Dorothy Tyyne Attwood, who married William Albert Dupont, son of Ralph P. Dupont and Judge Antoinette L. Dupont, in 1983. Katherine Attwood