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Growth strategy has been right on the money for United Bankshares CEO
WASHINGTON - Richard M. Adams Sr. announced this month that United Bankshares was buying Cardinal Bank for $912 million, creating the 32nd-largest bank in the United States. Which is kind of ironic, since he didn't want to be a banker in the first place.
"I thought of banking as geared toward accounting and a green-visor job,"