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Arthur F. Burns

1970–1978

GovernorChairWikipedia

Born

Apr 27, 1904

Died

Jun 26, 1987

Meetings at the table

108

108/109 (1 absent)

Geography

represented New York (2), past job · where the Board comes from

In their time

Meetings by Chair

Dissents witnessed

58

at 37 of 101 meetings

Unanimous

63%

64 of 101 meetings

Recessions

2

1969–70 · 1973–75

US presidents

3

Seats held

GovernorBoard of Governors1970–1978
Jan 31, 1970 – Mar 31, 1978 · represents the New York district (past job)
ChairBoard of Governors1970–1978
Feb 1, 1970 – Jan 31, 1978

Before the Fed

Professor · Columbia University

Education

Bachelor's — Columbia University
Master's — Columbia University (1931)
PhD — Columbia University

Terminal: PhD

Served alongside (378)

Chairs · 3

G. William Miller1971–1978
Paul A. Volcker1975–1978
William McChesney Martin Jr.1970–1970

Governors · 16

J. Charles Partee1970–1978
Lyle E. Gramley1974–1976
Robert C. Holland1970–1976
Andrew F. Brimmer1970–1974
David M. Lilly1970–1978
George W. Mitchell

Nixon · Ford · Carter

1970–1976

Henry C. Wallich1974–1978

J. Dewey Daane1970–1974

James L. Robertson1970–1973

Jeffrey M. Bucher1972–1976

John E. Sheehan1972–1975

Philip C. Jackson, Jr.1975–1978

Philip E. Coldwell1970–1978

Sherman J. Maisel1970–1972

Stephen S. Gardner1976–1978

William W. Sherrill1970–1971

Reserve Bank presidents · 22

Robert P. Black1970–1978
Ernest T. Baughman1970–1978
Alfred Hayes1970–1975
Aubrey N. Heflin1970–1973
Bruce K. Maclaury1971–1977
Charles J. Scanlon1970–1970
Darryl R. Francis1970–1976
David P. Eastburn1970–1978
Eliot J. Swan1970–1972
Frank E. Morris1970–1978
George H. Clay1970–1976
Hugh D. Galusha Jr.1970–1971
J. Roger Guffey1976–1978
John J. Balles1972–1978
Karl R. Bopp1970–1970
Lawrence K. Roos1976–1978
Mark H. Willes1977–1978
Monroe Kimbrel1970–1978
Robert H. Boykin1976–1978
Robert P. Mayo1970–1978
W. Braddock Hickman1970–1970
Willis J. Winn1970–1978

Staff · 56

Thomas J. O'Connell1970–1973
Ralph C. Bryant1972–1975
Stephen H. Axilrod1976–1978
John E. Reynolds1976–1976
Frederic Solomon1970–1975
John B. Williams1973–1978
Howard H. Hackley1970–1973
Bryant Davis1973–1976
David C. Melnicoff1970–1973
Eugene A. Leonard1971–1976
James L. Kichline1977–1978
Edwin M. Truman1977–1978
David B. Hexter1970–1972
Walter H. MacDonald1970–1978
Chester B. Feldberg1973–1973
A. B. Merritt1970–1972
Albert R. Hamilton1977–1978
Andrew F. Oehmann1974–1974
Brenton C. Leavitt1974–1976
Charles L. Hampton1974–1978
Clement A. Van Nice1974–1977
Dale M. Lewis1970–1970
Daniel M. Doyle1974–1978
David L. Shannon1976–1978
Donald W. Moriarty, Jr.1977–1978
E. O. Latham1970–1972
Edwin J. Johnson1970–1970
George C. Rankin1974–1978
Henry R. Czerwinski1977–1978
James A. McIntosh1971–1978
James R. Kudlinski1975–1978
Janet O. Hart1976–1978
Jerold E. Slocum1970–1973
John D. Hawke, Jr.1975–1977
John E. Ryan1977–1978
John M. Denkler1975–1978
John R. Farrell1970–1970
John T. Boysen1970–1976
Joseph E. Kelleher1970–1972
Keith D. Engstrom1973–1975
Kyle K. Fossum1970–1978
M. H. Strothman, Jr.1970–1973
Mark H. Wiles1971–1976
Neal L. Petersen1978–1978
Richard A. Debs1973–1975
Richard L. Smoot1977–1978
Robert Solomon1970–1971
Ronald G. Burke1971–1974
T. W. Plant1970–1975
Theodore E. Allison1974–1978
Thomas E. Gainor1978–1978
Thomas M. Timlen, Jr.1976–1978
Tynan Smith1971–1972
Walter W. Kreimann1973–1978
William F. Treiber1970–1972
William H. Wallace1975–1978

Reserve Bank directors · 281

Dale V. Andersen1970–1973
Alfred E. Jordan1970–1973
Sam Cooper1970–1975
Jean McArthur Davis1977–1978
Charles F. Jones1970–1973
A. Bruce Bowden1972–1974
A. Robert Abboud1976–1978
A.L. Ellis1970–1973
A.W. Riter, Jr.1970–1974
Alan Pifer1971–1971
Alan R. Sleeper1976–1978
Albert G. Clay1970–1972
Albert L. Nickerson1970–1971
Alden Winship Clausen1973–1976
Alfred W. Van Sinderen1973–1978
Andrew L. Clark1974–1978
Armand C. Stalnaker1977–1978
Arnold Robert Weber1978–1978
Arthur J. Decio1978–1978
Arthur S. Hamlin1970–1972
Bayard L. England1970–1972
Bernard D. Broeker1973–1974
Bernard T. Rocca, Jr.1970–1971
Boris Yavitz1977–1978
Bradford Brett1970–1973
Bruce B. Dayton1971–1975
Byron W. Reeve1970–1970
C. Graham Berwind, Jr.1971–1975
Carl D. Newton1970–1973
Carl E. Schroeder1972–1977
Carl J. Thomsen1970–1970
Carol R. Goldberg1978–1978
Carroll F. Byrd1970–1972
Cecil O. Emrich1970–1975
Cecil W. Cupp, Jr.1970–1972
Charles D. Lyon1970–1971
Charles Edward Treman, Jr.1970–1971
Charles F. Frankland1970–1970
Charles Mose Miller1970–1973
Charles R. Dahl1972–1977
Charles T. Beaird1973–1978
Charles T. Undlin1974–1976
Charles W. Poe, Jr.1977–1977
Charles Y. Lazarus1974–1978
Clair L. Peck, Jr.1974–1978
Clarence Albert Tatum, Jr.1970–1972
Clifford M. Kirtland, Jr.1974–1978
Cornell C. Maier1975–1978
Craig Bachman1975–1978
D. Robert Yarnall, Jr.1970–1971
David L. Brumback, Jr.1970–1975
David M. Heskett1970–1975
David M. Smith1973–1975
David Rockefeller1973–1976
Dolph Simons1970–1970
Donald E. Noble1972–1977
Donald J. Hall1974–1976
Donald J. Seebold1978–1978
Donald N. Brandin1975–1978
Donald P. Helgeson1975–1978
Dorothy Wright Nelson1977–1978
Douglas D. Monroe, Jr.1970–1971
E. Angus Powell1974–1978
E. Craig Wall, Sr.1972–1977
Edward Byron Smith1970–1975
Edward F. Brabec1978–1978
Edward J. Dwyer1970–1975
Edward J. Schnuck1970–1977
Edward N. Evans1972–1974
Edward W. Barker1971–1975
Edward W. Robinson, Jr.1972–1973
Edwin I. Hatch1970–1971
Edwin S. Jones1972–1974
Ellison L. Hazard1972–1972
Ellmore C. Patterson1977–1978
Emerson G. Higdon1970–1972
F. Evans Farwell1970–1975
Floyd F. Whitmore1970–1974
Francis Norman Southworth1974–1976
Frank B. Robards, Jr.1977–1978
Frank C. Love1972–1977
Frank Junell1975–1978
Frank R. Milliken1972–1977
Frank Ray Keyser, Jr.1970–1972
Franklin J. Lunding1970–1970
Fred Adams, Jr.1976–1978
Fred I. Brown, Jr.1971–1976
Frederic H. Phillips1978–1978
Frederic M. Peirce1970–1973
Frederick G. Larkin, Jr.1977–1978
Gene D. Adams1974–1978
George F. Karch1970–1971
George W. Jenkins1973–1978
Gerald D. Hines1975–1978
Gertrude G. Michelson1978–1978
Giles H. Miller, Jr.1970–1970
Gustav A. Dahlen1970–1971
H. Dail Holderness1970–1973
H. Lyle Duffey1970–1970
H.G. Pattillo1972–1977
Harold A. Shaub1975–1978
Harold F. Still, Jr.1970–1971
Harold W. Andersen1973–1978
Harry J. Taw1976–1977
Harry M. Young, Jr.1971–1976
Hays T. Watkins1978–1978
Henry A. Thouron1970–1970
Henry Clay Hofheimer, II1972–1977
Herbert D. Armstrong1970–1971
Horace A. Shepard1970–1977
Hoskins A. Shadow1970–1973
Howard M. Packard1970–1973
Howard R. Swearer1974–1976
Hugh A. Curry1970–1972
Hugh F. Steen1970–1974
Hugh M. Willson1978–1978
Irving A. Mathews1974–1978
J. Owen Cole1976–1978
J. Ward Keener1970–1973
J. William Henderson, Jr.1970–1971
J.R. Vaughan1978–1978
J.V. Kelly1970–1973
Jack B. Jackson1973–1976
Jack K. Busby1976–1978
Jack P. Keith1972–1977
James A. Hardison, Jr.1975–1977
James E. Phillips1973–1975
James Fairfield English, Jr.1975–1977
James G. Harlow, Jr.1978–1978
James H. Smaby1978–1978
James M. Kemper, Jr.1976–1978
James M. Tuholski1972–1974
James McNaughton Hester1970–1970
James P. Hickok1970–1971
James P. McFarland1974–1978
James Patchell1976–1978
James R. Carter1970–1970
James S. Duesenberry1970–1974
James Whelden1978–1978
Jay J. DeLay1974–1978
Jean A. Crockett1977–1978
John A. Gelbach1978–1978
John A. McKinney1978–1978
John A. O'Leary1970–1974
John Bosshard1970–1972
John C. Tuten1973–1974
John C. Wilson1970–1973
John D. Robinson1976–1978
John F. Spies1975–1978
John H. Bailey1970–1974
John H. Lumpkin1973–1975
John Hunter, Jr.1977–1978
John J. Dwyer1976–1978
John J. Hassler1973–1975
John L. Gushman1970–1973
John Lawrence1971–1976
John M. Fox1970–1975
John R. Mulhearn1977–1978
John Royston Coleman1971–1976
John S. Rouzie1976–1978
John Sagan1978–1978
John Simmen1970–1971
John T. Hackett1972–1977
John T. Oliver, Jr.1974–1978
John W. Alford1976–1978
John W. Baird1971–1973
John W. Eckman1976–1978
John W. Gay1970–1971
Joseph F. Alibrandi1973–1978
Joseph H. Williams1975–1978
Joseph O. Waymire1970–1971
Joseph Rosenblatt1970–1975
Kenneth I. Guscott1974–1978
Leo H. Schoenhofen1975–1977
Louis Wellington Cabot1970–1978
Maceo A. Sloan1976–1978
Malcolm T. Stamper1976–1978
Margaret S. Wilson1977–1978
Mark C. Wheeler1972–1974
Mark Townsend1970–1970
Marron Kendrick1970–1973
Mas Oji1972–1974
Maurice B. Mitchell1977–1977
Maurice F. Granville1972–1978
Maurice R. Forman1970–1972
Melvin C. Lockard1970–1973
Merle E. Gilliand1975–1977
Milton C. Mumford1970–1971
Murray Kyger1970–1972
Nels E. Turnquist1977–1978
Newman Edward Wait, Jr.1973–1975
Norman Bassler1972–1974
Ole R. Mettler1978–1978
Osby L. Weir1973–1976
Oscar G. Mayer1973–1978
Otis Arnold Singletary1973–1978
Owen Cooper1970–1973
Owen Meredith Wilson1970–1976
Paul E. Reichardt1977–1978
Paul H. Henson1977–1978
Paul V. Farver1974–1978
Peter B. Clark1973–1977
Philip Guthrie Hoffman1970–1972
Philip H. Nason1971–1973
Philip Hamm1974–1978
Philip Henry Glatfelter, III1970–1971
Philip J. Lee1970–1972
Plato P. Pearson1974–1976
R. Stanley Laing1970–1972
Ralph A. McIninch1971–1973
Ralph C. Bain1975–1978
Ralph J. Voss1971–1972
Ralph V. Arnold1970–1971
Raymond C. Burroughs1974–1978
Raymond W. Bauer1977–1978
Rene C. McPherson1973–1975
Richard A. Herbster1971–1973
Richard D. Hill1978–1978
Richard P. Raish1977–1978
Robert E. Kirby1974–1978
Robert E. McNeill, Jr.1970–1970
Robert H. Knight1976–1978
Robert H. Stewart, III1973–1978
Robert Henry Strotz1974–1978
Robert M. Solow1975–1978
Robert S. Small1970–1972
Robert T. Hornbeck1974–1976
Robert T. Person1971–1976
Robert W. Lawson1970–1975
Robert W. Wagstaff1970–1974
Roger D. Knight, Jr.1970–1975
Ronald S. Hanson1976–1978
Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric1970–1975
Roy H. Johnson1972–1974
Russ B. Hart1971–1973
Russell G. Cleary1976–1978
S. Alfred Halgren1970–1972
Sam I. Yarnell1973–1978
Seward D. Schooler1970–1970
Sherwood J. Smith1970–1971
Sister Generose Gervais1978–1978
Smith D. Broadbent, Jr.1970–1970
Stanley Learned1970–1971
Stephen F. Keating1976–1978
Steven Muller1978–1978
Stewart Orton1974–1978
Stuart McCarty1975–1976
Stuart Shumate1970–1973
Thomas A. Jordan1978–1978
Thomas K. Smith Jr.1974–1978
Thomas L. Miller1974–1976
Thomas P. McLachlen1971–1973
Thomas William Herrick1973–1978
Tucker H. David1970–1970
Ulysses V. Goodwyn1974–1978
Virginia M. Bailey1977–1978
W. Gordon Robertson1970–1974
W.J. Smouse1977–1977
Warren B. Jones1974–1978
Warren F. Vaughan1970–1970
Werner C. Brown1976–1978
Weston P. Figgins1975–1978
Willard D. Hosford, Jr.1970–1972
William A. Fickling, Jr.1978–1978
William B. Eagleson, Jr.1975–1977
William B. Mills1970–1972
William B. Walton1976–1978
William Denman Eberle1970–1970
William E. Ryan1975–1977
William E. Weigel1973–1978
William H. Davidson1970–1972
William H. Franklin1970–1974
William H. Stroube1978–1978
William M. Honey1971–1975
William R. Cosby1970–1972
William R. Kennedy1970–1970
William S. Masland1973–1978
William S. Renchard1971–1972
William Scott Sneath1973–1978
Wilson Homer Elkins1970–1971
Wilson M. Brown, Jr.1978–1978

Lineage

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