E. E. Cammack Explained

E. E. Cammack
Birth Name:Edmund Ernest Cammack
Birth Date:7 December 1881
Death Date:17 December 1958 (aged 77)
Birth Place:Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Death Place:Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma Mater:University of London
Spouse:Zelie Cammack
Children:1

Edmund Ernest Cammack FAIA FCAS (7 December 1881 – 17 December 1958) was an English actuary who was an early figure in the Aetna Life Insurance company and a founder member of the Casualty Actuarial Society of America.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Cammack made several contributions to actuarial journals and, as a renowned actuary, he was regularly asked to contribute to US Governmental debates.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] In 1926, he founded a graduate school that continues to this day at Aetna Life Insurance.[11] [12] [13]

Early life and education

Edmund Ernest Cammack was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, on 7 December 1881.[2] He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of London.[2] [14] [3]

Career

Cammack began his career working at a London bank before moving to Johannesburg to work as an actuary with the African Life Insurance Company.[2] He was made a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of America in 1909 when he left South Africa to join Aetna Life Insurance in America.[2] Cammack rose through the ranks to become Head Actuary in 1924 and proceeded to create its Group Insurance Division.[2]

Cammack was elected Vice-President of Aetna and, in 1927, he was made Chief Executive of the fire and marine operations of the Aetna Life Affiliated Companies.[2] Shortly thereafter he made important contributions to the 8th International Congress of Actuaries which was held in London in June, 1927.[15] In 1947 he was appointed a director of Aetna Life and Aetna Casualty and served on both boards until his death in 1958.[2]

Cammack was a Fellow and Charter Member of the Casualty Actuarial Society, which he helped to establish in 1914, later making several important contributions to its work.[2] [16] He was elected vice president of the Casualty Actuarial Society in 1922, and was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Actuaries in 1925.[2] He served as a Member of the Actuarial Society of America and, in 1927, was made president of the Automobile Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut.[2] [17]

Cammack was a member of the Hartford Club, the Hartford Golf Club, the Wampanoag Country Club and was a communicant of St John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford.

Death

Cammack and his wife, Zelie Cammack, had one son. Cammack died in Hartford, Connecticut, on 17 December 1958.

Selected contributions to Actuarial Journals

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Who was who in America: With World Notables : 1607-1998 : Index, Volume I-XII and Historical Volume. Marquis Who's. Who. Marquis Who's Who. Staff. 31 October 2000. Marquis Who's Who. 9780837902340. Google Books.
  2. Transactions Of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. II No. 29AB, Obituary, Edmund Ernest Cammack, p. 317
  3. Obituary in The Hartford Courant, USA, E. E. Cammack, 77, Dies. Retired Aetna Life Officer, Thursday, December 18, 1958, p.6
  4. Web site: Aetna Health Insurance Company History. www.healthinsurancequotesamerica.com.
  5. Web site: Insurance Newsweek. 6 September 1929. Vantage Enterprise. Google Books.
  6. Book: CAMMACK, Edmund Ernest. 31 October 2009. 9780837902432. 7981873006. Open WorldCat.
  7. Web site: Google Scholar. scholar.google.com.
  8. Web site: Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: Hearings Before the Temporary National Economic Committee. 1939.
  9. Web site: Verbatim Record of the Proceedings. 1939.
  10. Web site: The Texas Civil Appeals Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas. 20 September 1904. state of Texas. Google Books.
  11. Web site: The Journey of DIVERSITY, 2007 DIVERSITY Annual Report. Aetna Life Insurance. 10. https://web.archive.org/web/20151106054912/http://www.aetna.com/about/aetna/diversity/data/10097-Aetna_LR.pdf. 6 November 2015.
  12. Web site: Tech Stressed at New Aetna School. Insurance & Technology.
  13. Web site: Transactions. Actuarial Society of. America. 6 September 1921. Google Books.
  14. Web site: Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States. 6 September 1946. Index Publishing Company. Google Books.
  15. The Times, Congress Of Actuaries, Industrial Policies, Remarkable Progress, June 30, 1927, p.9
  16. Book: 100 Years of Expertise, Insight, and Solutions: A History of the Casualty Actuarial Society. K. Stan. Khury. Dave. Skurnick. Walt. Stewart. Walt. Wright. Steve. Goldberg. Glen. Balling. 7 November 2014. Casualty Actuarial Society. 9780962476259. Google Books.
  17. Web site: Cash Benefits Under Voluntary Disability Insurance in the United States. Elizabeth Lewis. Otey. 24 April 1941. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
  18. Web site: Google Scholar. scholar.google.com.
  19. Additions to the library, November 1926. 20 November 1926. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries. 57. 3. 387–396. Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/S0020268100031322.

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