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The following is a list of past and present chairs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A chair serves for a four-year term after appointment, but may be reappointed for several consecutive four-year terms. Since the Federal Reserve was established in 1914, the following people have served as chair. [a] [18] #
Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell (born February 4, 1953) is an American investment banker and lawyer serving since 2018 as the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve.. A native of Washington, D.C., Powell graduated from Princeton University and from the Georgetown University Law Center. [2]
Arthur Frank Burns (April 27, 1904 – June 26, 1987) was an American economist and diplomat who served as the 10th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978. He previously chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1956, and served as the first Counselor to the President under Richard Nixon from January to November 1969.
The 1974 William McChesney Martin Jr. Federal Reserve Board Building Martin ended his tenure as Chairman of the Board of Governors on January 30, 1970. On that day, his career in public service ended, but he continued to work, holding a variety of directorships of corporations and nonprofit institutions, such as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund .
Pages in category "Chairs of the Federal Reserve" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, [3] with measures known as the Volcker shock.
Charles Sumner Hamlin (August 30, 1861 – April 24, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1914 to 1916. He previously served as the United States assistant secretary of the treasury from 1893 to 1897, and again from 1913 until 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson nominated him as ...
G. William Miller's swearing in ceremony as Federal Reserve Chairman, with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right), Vice-President Walter F. Mondale (right), President Jimmy Carter (left), and Ariadna R. Miller (center) in March 1978. When President Jimmy Carter took office, Nixon-appointee Arthur Burns was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve ...