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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 22, 1993                   TAG: 9301220238
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: MAG POFF
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FIRST UNION PICKS PRESIDENTS

First Union Corp. has named two of its own executives as area presidents in Norfolk and Richmond for after it acquires Dominion Bankshares Corp. at the end of March.

Two presidents in Western Virginia, whose appointments were announced earlier, come from the Dominion organization.

One area presidency remains vacant. It is in Northern Virginia, which will be the Capital area of First Union National Bank of Virginia.

Newly named is Michael D. Wesson, who will return to Richmond from Charleston, S.C., where he has been First Union's city executive for the last six years.

Wesson, who received undergraduate and MBA degrees from the College of William and Mary, began his banking career in 1977 in Richmond as an analyst with Crestar Bank.

While with Crestar, he became a commercial account officer and a vice president. He is now a senior vice president with First Union.

Also, Robert A. Hunter will head the Hampton Roads area for First Union. A senior vice president, Hunter held a wide variety of planning and management positions with Southeast Banking Corp. in Florida from 1977 until its merger with First Union in 1991. He has since worked on combining the banks in Florida.

Byron Yost, who has headed the Richmond region for Dominion Bank, will return to Roanoke as president of the Roanoke area.

John Francis, who has headed Dominion's Corporate Banking Group in Western Virginia, will be president of the Community Banking area consisting of Southwest Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. He, too, will be based in Roanoke.

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