Ramsey history

Finally in 1973 he was hired as a retail broker by the Washington, D.C. firm of Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc., where he initially concentrated on the sale of gas, oil, and casino stocks.

He married Virma Meri Ignatius and had issue with her prior to his 1977 passing, including a son named Mac.

In 1982 one of his future partners, Eric F. Billings, joined Legg Mason, then left two years later to work for Johnston, Lemon & Co., one of Washington's most prominent brokerage houses.

Establishing the Firm in 1989

In 1994 FBR formed a real estate group, bringing in veterans William R. Swanson and James D. Locke to head the operation.

FBR's first play in the technology arena was its 1996 underwriting of an initial stock offering for America's first Internet bank, Security First Network Bank of Pineville, Kentucky.

In October 1997 it announced that after managing numerous IPOs, the firm itself would now go public.

The success would be shortlived, however, as the stock market began to slide in June 1998, resulting in a scarcity of new issues.

William T. Ramsay’s 1999 book The Ramsays: First Family of Alexandria covered this line.

The last name Ramsey ranks 4,347th in popularity in the United Status as of the 2000 Census.