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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | James R. Matthews |
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Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
00, 1949
(76 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
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| Info | Jim Matthews is president of Keegan Mortgage Corporation in Oreland, Pennsylvania. His firm directly originates approximately 60 million dollars per year in VA-guaranteed, FHA-insured and conventional residential mortgages for the southeastern Pennsylvania housing market.
As a former board member and instructor in advanced mortgage banking for the Pennsylvania Mortgage Bankers Association, he is called upon by hundreds of realtors and dozens of lenders in the Montgomery County market for his firm’s guidance in housing credit opportunities.
He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he attended on full Navy scholarship. In 1966 he graduated from LaSalle College High School in Springfield, where he was valedictorian, student body president and a Stotesbury Cup champion oarsman. He left the Navy as a lieutenant j.g. in 1972 having served in the destroyer service both as an assistant engineering officer and gunnery officer.
After several years in mortgage loan servicing, he was appointed as a GS-12 Lending Chief at the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Philadelphia. He supervised approximately 400 million dollars annually in loan approvals, and oversaw all servicing and foreclosure claim actions in the region.
Jim re-joined the private sector in marketing in 1978, and ultimately incorporated his own firm in 1990.
A resident of Eastern Montgomery County his entire adult life, he has been married thirty-four years to his wife Karen, is the father of four boys and a grandfather twice-over. His community and children have been the foundation for his associations and activities, from the Knights of Columbus (34 years) and the Lions Club to the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Little League.
Matthews is the brother of MSNBC host Chris Matthews.
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