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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. When Gowen first arrived at Merchants & Planters in 1983 to serve as its president and senior lending officer, the bank had two branches and $47 million in assets. In 1998, the bank became one of the first financial institutions in the St. Jim Gowen Sr.

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