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{{Infobox company
| name   = National Life Group
| logo   = [[File:Nlg logo.PNG]]
| type   = [[Mutual company]]
| slogan = "Do good. Be good. Make good."
| foundation     = [[Montpelier, Vermont]], USA (1848)<ref>[https://www.nationallife.com/public/histarchive/our_history/pages/AnAct.asp An Act to Incorporate the National Life Insurance Company, State of Vermont Legislature, 1848.]</ref>
| founder        = [[Julius Yemans Dewey]]
| location       = [[Montpelier, Vermont]], USA
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Mehran Assadi is the president and chief executive officer of National Life Group, a position he has held since 2009. He has been a member of the company’s board since 2009. He joined National Life Group in September 2003 as interim Chief Information Officer. In May 2004 he was appointed interim Chief Operating Officer and in April 2005 he accepted the position of President – Life and Annuity.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-Leadership</ref>


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On November 13 of 1848, National Life Group was chartered under the name National Life Insurance Company of the United States. Nearly a year later on November 8, 1849, William C. Kittredge was elected as the first president of National Life. Kittredge was a successful lawyer and served for eight years in the Vermont House of Representatives.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-OurHistory</ref>

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On March 1, 1850, National Life found its first home at 27 State Street in Montpelier. The office space was leased from the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-OurHistory</ref>

  
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On May 17, 1850, National Life faced its first death claim. Rowland Allen died while traveling to California for the Gold Rush. The company did not have sufficient assets to pay the claim. However the directors used their personal credit to make the $1,000 payment to Allen’s wife.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-OurHistory</ref>

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On January 6, 1851, founding member Dr. Julius Yemans Dewey was elected as president of National Life. Dewey was a doctor of medicine, having studied at the University of Vermont. He personally delivered the payment for the company’s first claim.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-OurHistory</ref>

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In January 1877 Emma Dimmick became the first woman employed in the Home Office. Since then National Life has made strides to improve conditions for women in the workplace. Artist Roy Heinrich created several illustrations for National Life in which he depicted strong women.  His illustrations were created from 1934 to 1945.  The Historic Art Series was the basis of National Life’s advertising program of the 1930s through the early 1960s. Heinrich’s illustrations of strong women relate to Revolutionary/Colonial times in America. In 1985 Dr. Pat Woolf of Princeton University becomes first woman on the Board of Directors.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-OurHistory</ref> Today, National Life has three women serving on the Board of Directors: Kim Goodman, V. Louise McCarren, and Carol Carlson.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-Leadership</ref>

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April 11, 1957, National Life purchased the land for its current home in Montpelier, what became its sixth home office. Clearing and excavation began in August and on October 3 President Deane Davis broke ground on the official building site with a bulldozer. After three years the building was complete.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/public/histarchive/archive_home.asp</ref>  In 2009 National Life Group received Silver Certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Existing Building (LEED-EB) program, sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council, the nation's leading non-profit authority for green buildings. National Life is the largest (543,992 s.f.) and oldest (1960) building in Vermont to receive LEED certification of any kind and the second existing commercial building in Vermont to receive a silver LEED-EB certification. Fifteen percent of the campus’ electrical demand is provided by a rooftop solar array and a nearby array of ground-mounted solar panels. And in 2010 National Life began using a woodchip fired biomass system for heating.<ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-BeingGreen</ref>

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January 1, 2009 Mehran Assadi became President and CEO of National Life. Mehran joined National Life in 2003 as interim chief information officer. In 2005 he was appointed president of Life and Annuity. In 2011 he introduced National Life’s corporate vision statement, “To bring peace of mind to everyone we touch.” And corporate values “Do Good. Be Good. Make Good.” <ref>https://www.nationallife.com/OurStory-Newsroom-8589945576</ref>⏎
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== Leadership ==

2.1 Executive Management: President & CEO Mehran Assadi; Executive Vice President Ruth B. Smith; Executive Vice President Thomas H. Brownell, who is also CEO of Sentinel Investments; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Bob Cotton; Chief People Officer Sean N. Woodroffe; Senior Vice President & General Counsel Greg Woodworth; Chief Information Officer Tom Anfuso; Vice President of Corporate Communications & Community Relations Christopher Graff.<ref>https:(contracted; show full)
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[[Category:Companies based in Vermont]]