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Where the Board comes from
101 Governors from 12 districts
since Aug 1914 · New York 13 · Cleveland 3 · 45 with a state on the record · 42 birthplaces
every Governor since 1914 in the row of the district they represent · a black outline is a sitting Governor · scroll for other years · pinch to zoom
Headlines
Most represented
New York
13 Governors · 98.3 years
Least
Cleveland
3 Governors · 15 years
Longest without one
Cleveland · 80.6 y
Apr 1946 – today
Today
7 of 12
Jefferson 2 · Powell 3 · Cook 6 · Barr 7 · Bowman 8 · Waller 9 · Warsh 12
A current job
52
of 104 terms: the job at appointment was in the district
A past job
28
an earlier job was in the district
College
10
studied in the district
Born or raised there
10
5 born · 5 childhood
The states
the twelve districts by county, as the Kansas City Fed maps them · hover one for the Governors who represented it, click to keep it
Why the district, by decade
The tie the Board’s own biography gives between a Governor and the district, as the sheet codes it.
By district
The district each Governor is appointed to represent per the Board’s site, with the biography’s own words for the tie; the state at confirmation from the Congressional Record; birthplaces from the sheet and Wikidata. Section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act: no two Governors from one district, for “a fair representation of the financial, agricultural, industrial, and commercial interests, and geographical divisions of the country.” All the people
