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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 21, 2003

Registration No. 333-85231
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
 FORM S-3
 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Union Planters Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Tennessee
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
62-0859007
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
6200 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38119
(901) 580-6000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
E. James House, Jr.
Secretary and Corporate General Counsel
Union Planters Corporation
6200 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38119
(901) 580-5768
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Frank M. Conner III
Alston & Bird LLP
North Building, 10th Floor
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-2601
Phone: (202) 756-3300
Facsimile: (202) 756-3333

     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: Not Applicable

     If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.   o

     If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.   o

     If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   o

     If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   o

     If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box.   o

     This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 shall become effective in accordance with Section 8(c) of the Securities act of 1933, as amended, on such a date as the Commission, acting pursuant to Section 8(c), may determine.

 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

     This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Amendment”) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-85231) (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed by Union Planters Corporation (the “Company”) to deregister $100,000,000 of the $600,000,000 of the Company’s debt securities previously registered pursuant to the Registration Statement, none of such $100,000,000 of the Company’s debt securities have been sold as of the date this Amendment is filed.

 

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Memphis, and the State of Tennessee, on the 16th day of October, 2003.

       
  UNION PLANTERS CORPORATION
 
     By: /s/ Jackson W. Moore
Jackson W. Moore
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

 

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement or amendment has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

         
Signature   Title   Date
 
 
    
/s/ Jackson W. Moore
Jackson W. Moore		    
 
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Director 		  October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Bobby L. Doxey
Bobby L. Doxey		    
 
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer 		  October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Albert M. Austin
Albert M. Austin		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr.
Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr.		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ George W. Bryan
George W. Bryan		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ James E. Harwood
James E. Harwood		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Parnell S. Lewis, Jr.
Parnell S. Lewis, Jr.		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Jorge M. Perez
Jorge M. Perez		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Lou Ann Poynter
Lou Ann Poynter		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ John R. Roberts
John R. Roberts		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Michael S. Starnes
Michael S. Starnes		   Director   October 16, 2003

 

         
Signature   Title   Date
 
 
    
/s/ Richard A. Trippeer, Jr.
Richard A. Trippeer, Jr.		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
/s/ Robert R. Waller, M.D.
Robert R. Waller, M.D.		   Director   October 16, 2003
 
 
Spence L. Wilson		   Director   October 16, 2003

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