Jake Butcher

Jake Butcher

Jacob Franklin "Jake" Butcher (born in 1936) was a U.S. banker and politician who built a financial empire in East Tennessee, was the Democratic Party nominee for governor of Tennessee in 1978 and the primary promoter of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, and who lost his business and his personal fortune after he was found to have engaged in massive fraud.

Read more about Jake Butcher:  Early Life, Banking Career, Public Life, Criminal Conviction