H. (Henry) Dewayne Kreager (1912 – 2001) was a banker and businessman, a Washington state native who attended college at Washington State University, Duke, and Harvard. Kreager started his professional career in Washington, D.C., working with the federal Foreign Economic Administration from 1941 to 1946, with the State Department as assistant director of the Foreign Service Institute in 1946 -1947, and with the executive office and White House staff for President Truman from 1947 to 1953. From 1953 to 1957, Kreager was a consulting economist with then-White House chief of staff John Steelman.

Returning to Washington state, he was the first director of the state Department of Commerce and Economic Development from 1957 to 1960. From 1958 to 1963, he was a member of the Seattle World's Fair (Century 21) Commission. Kreager was then Chairman and chief executive officer of Pacific First Federal Savings Bank, from 1970 to 1985, and director and vice chairman after 1985.

Among his community activities, Kreager was a regent at WSU, a trustee at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, president of the Seattle Opera from 1975 to 1978, president of the United Arts Council Puget Sound, founding chairman of the Washington State Council on International Trade, and a vice chairman and board member of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center from 1982 to 1990. Kreager also served on the boards of several prominent businesses.

Interview conducted by Donald A. Schmechel on October 17, 1985. This interview is part of the Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection. Don Schmechel, who was a member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation board, began this project with Seattle Public Library in 1984, with the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) brought on board as a partner in early 1985. Schmechel himself worked to raise the funding for the project, and volunteered his time to manage the project, and to conduct interviews along with a crew of volunteers. Originally titled the Videotaping Historic Figures (VHF) Program, the project interviewed 91 people, and MOHAI holds the interviews for 32 of these individuals.