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Federal Reserve History

Hugh Leach

1936–1961

Reserve Bank PresidentFederal Reserve History

Born

1894

Meetings at the table

274

274/488 (214 absent)

Geography

president at Richmond (5) · where the Board comes from

In their time

Meetings by Chair

Dissents witnessed

27

at 18 of 197 meetings

Unanimous

91%

179 of 197 meetings

Seats held

Reserve Bank PresidentRichmond1936–1961
Mar 12, 1936 – Feb 28, 1961

Before the Fed

Accountant · F.W. LaFrentz and Company

Education

Bachelor's — University of Virginia
Degree — University of Virginia (1917)

Terminal: Bachelor's

Served alongside (593)

Chairs · 3

Marriner S. Eccles1936–1951
Thomas B. McCabe1938–1951
William McChesney Martin Jr.1951–1961

Governors · 21

A.L. Mills, Jr.1952–1961
C. Canby Balderston1943–1961
Charles N. Shepardson1955–1961
Chester C. Davis1936–1951
Edward L. Norton1950–1952
Ernest G. Draper

Recessions

6

1937–38 · 1945 · 1948–49 · 1953–54 · 1957–58 · 1960–61

US presidents

4

Roosevelt · Truman · Eisenhower · Kennedy

1938–1950

Frederic A. Delano1936–1936

G. H. King, Jr.1959–1961

James K. Vardaman, Jr.1946–1958

James L. Robertson1952–1961

John J. Thomas1936–1941

John K. Mckee1936–1946

Joseph A. Broderick1936–1937

Lawrence Clayton1947–1949

M.S. Szymczak1936–1961

Oliver S. Powell1936–1957

Paul E. Miller1946–1954

Ralph W. Morrison1936–1936

Ronald Ransom1936–1947

Roy A. Young1936–1942

Rudolph M. Evans1942–1954

Reserve Bank presidents · 42

Allan Sproul1936–1956
Malcolm H. Bryan1941–1961
Alfred H. Williams1939–1958
Alfred Hayes1956–1961
Aubrey N. Heflin1961–1961
Buckner A. McKinney1936–1939
C. E. Earhart1946–1956
Carl E. Allen1956–1961
Charles J. Scanlon1959–1961
Clifford S. Young1941–1956
Darryl R. Francis1959–1961
Delos C. Johns1951–1961
Edward A. Wayne1950–1960
Eliot J. Swan1956–1960
Frederick L. Deming1953–1961
George H. Hamilton1936–1941
George J. Schaller1936–1941
George L. Harrison1936–1940
H. Gavin Leedy1941–1961
Harold T. Patterson1960–1961
Harry A. Shuford1959–1961
Hermann N. Mangels1947–1961
Ira Clerk1936–1946
John N. Peyton1936–1952
John S. Sinclair1936–1941
Joseph A. Erickson1948–1961
Karl R. Bopp1958–1961
Laurence F. Whittemore1944–1948
Matthew J. Fleming1936–1944
Monroe Kimbrel1960–1961
Oscar W. Newton1936–1939
Ralph E. Flanders1941–1946
Ray M. Gidney1944–1953
Robert R. Gilbert1936–1953
Robert S. Parker1936–1941
Watrous H. Irons1954–1961
Wilbur D. Fulton1953–1961
William A. Day1936–1945
William B. Geery1936–1938
William Mcchesney Martin Sr.1936–1941
William S. Mclarin Jr.1939–1951
William W. Paddock1936–1944

Staff · 65

S. R. Carpenter1945–1957
Chester Morrill1936–1944
George B. Vest1946–1956
Walter Wyatt1936–1945
Woodlief Thomas1945–1948
E. A. Goldenweiser1936–1944
Tilford C. Gaines1953–1960
R. A. Young1951–1959
Ralph A. Young1949–1961
Arthur Willis1947–1953
Merritt Sherman1958–1961
John H. Williams1941–1952
Arthur W. Marget1950–1960
Howard H. Hackley1957–1961
Frederic Solomon1959–1961
William F. Treiber1952–1961
O. P. Wheeler1952–1959
Robert F. Leach1950–1953
Ralph F. Leach1951–1953
Guy E. Noyes1951–1961
Philip E. Coldwell1960–1961
A. W. Mills1950–1961
Alfred C. Neal1951–1955
Arthur Phelan1950–1950
Carl E. Parry1936–1947
Carroll A. Worthington1936–1940
Charles B. Dunn1945–1948
Donald S. Thompson1953–1961
Dwight L. Allen1951–1953
E. C. Harris1950–1958
E. O. Latham1956–1961
Edward L. Smead1936–1948
Edwin J. Johnson1954–1961
Edwin R. Millard1948–1949
Ethan B. Stroud1939–1943
F. Guy Hitt1936–1950
Frank J. Drinnen1936–1945
Frank J. Zurlinden1936–1942
Fred A. Nelson1946–1949
G. Howland Chase1952–1952
Gardner L. Boothe, II1952–1958
George S. Sloan1951–1956
Guy S. Freutel1957–1958
H. Edward Hemmings1961–1961
Henry O. Koppang1941–1961
Howard P. Preston1936–1944
Innis D. Harris1959–1961
J. Leonard Townsend1948–1951
John R. Farrell1959–1961
John S. Walden, Jr.1936–1952
Joseph E. Kelleher1958–1961
L. R. Rounds1941–1951
Leo H. Paulger1936–1945
Lewis M. Clark1946–1959
Liston P. Bethea1944–1957
O. M. Attebery1936–1952
Reuben B. Hays1943–1944
Robert C. Masters1957–1958
Robert F. Leonard1942–1958
Robert N. Hilkert1950–1961
unknown1937–1937
W. D. Gentry1944–1958
W. J. Davis1946–1957
William H. Fletcher1945–1952
William Willett1942–1950

Reserve Bank directors · 462

J.B. Thomas1953–1958
Max A. Miller1952–1961
Frank D. Williams1936–1944
Walter M. Mitchell1956–1961
Thomas K. Smith1945–1950
Robert O. Anderson1960–1961
Sam D. Young1955–1960
A. Leonard Mott1961–1961
A. Wessel Shapleigh1943–1948
A.B. Freeman1948–1956
A.O. Stewart1936–1937
A.Z. Baker1942–1950
Addison H. Reese1961–1961
Albert G. Frost1946–1951
Albert L. Nickerson1961–1961
Albert Morton Creighton1942–1950
Albert P. Funk1936–1942
Alden G. Roach1951–1955
Alexander E. Walker1954–1956
Alexander Harry Brawner1954–1959
Alexander Scott Offutt1959–1961
Alexander Sessums Cleveland1936–1937
Alexander Warden1961–1961
Alf Morris1936–1938
Alfred Lawrence Ripley1936–1937
Allan B. Kline1948–1953
Allan Forbes1938–1950
Allen Hollis, Sr.1936–1936
Allen W. Holmes1942–1946
Alonzo G. Decker, Jr.1954–1961
Ames Stevens1948–1954
Andrew Kaul, III1952–1954
Andrew P. Welch1936–1937
Archie Dean Swift1948–1953
Arthur B. Van Buskirk1956–1961
Arthur F. Maxwell1958–1961
Arthur H. Quay1950–1950
Arthur Werre, Jr.1959–1961
Arthur Wollaston Sewall1936–1938
Atherton Bean1960–1961
Aubrey J. Brown1958–1961
Augustus C. Long1957–1960
B. Earl Puckett1960–1961
Bayard L. England1955–1960
Beardsley Ruml1937–1946
Ben R. Conner1936–1951
Bernard C. Wolfe1953–1955
Bert R. Prall1953–1960
Brayton Wilbur1944–1953
Burr P. Cleveland1951–1953
Burton L. Lohmuller1960–1961
C. Frederick C. Stout1936–1943
C.C. Parks1936–1936
C.L. Austin1949–1950
C.W. Burges1949–1953
Caffey Robertson1954–1956
Carle C. Conway1942–1948
Carlyle Thorpe1937–1941
Carroll F. Byrd1940–1961
Cary L. Page1948–1953
Cecil Puckett1952–1954
Cecil R. Berry1936–1936
Cesar J. Bertheau1960–1961
Charles A. Higgins1945–1947
Charles B. Van Dusen1939–1941
Charles C. Reed1936–1949
Charles Clinton Walsh1936–1937
Charles E. Oakes1951–1958
Charles E. Reiman1936–1945
Charles Edward Adams1945–1948
Charles Henry Merriman1936–1937
Charles J. Stilwell1951–1953
Charles Kenneth McIntosh1936–1946
Charles Perry McCormick1939–1953
Charles W. Bitzer1957–1959
Charles Z. Hardwick1956–1961
Chas. H. Stewart1946–1953
Chess Lamberton1936–1937
Clarence E. Hill1945–1949
Clarence Francis1951–1958
Clarence M. Woolley1936–1936
Clarence Roberts1940–1941
Clarence W. Avery1942–1948
Clifford V. Gregory1940–1940
Cyrus M. Higley1958–1960
D.A. Hulcy1952–1961
Daniel W. Bell1955–1957
David C. Bevan1960–1961
David M. Kennedy1961–1961
Dean Wallace Colvard1955–1959
Denver L. Morgan1958–1960
Dolph Briscoe1942–1943
Donald Comer1946–1961
Donald H. Sherwood1937–1938
Donald K. David1946–1947
Donaldson Brown1941–1946
Douglas W. Brooks1940–1947
E.M. Dodds1950–1959
Earle W. Stamm1947–1952
Ed H. Winton1937–1942
Edgar F. Zelle1952–1955
Edgar M. Queeny1961–1961
Edison Hobstetter1952–1957
Edmund Ezra Day1938–1942
Edmund Stevenson Burke, Jr.1936–1938
Edward C. Doll1950–1955
Edward E. Mullaney1936–1941
Edward J. Frost1936–1943
Edward K. Mills1936–1937
Edward P. Brown1936–1939
Edward R. Estberg1936–1943
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.1947–1948
Edward Sanborn French1936–1940
Edwin Hyde1951–1961
Edwin J. Thomas1961–1961
Edwin Malloy1936–1947
Elmer H. Cox1936–1944
Ernest L. Kurth1940–1945
Ernest T. George1936–1947
Erwin Dain Canham1959–1961
Eugene B. Whittemore1959–1961
Everett Needham Case1961–1961
F. Albee Flodin1951–1957
F. Palmer Armstrong1952–1954
Ferd I. Collins1955–1957
Fitzgerald Hall1936–1945
Ford Seale1939–1940
Forrest F. Hill1954–1960
Francis Beverly Biddle1938–1938
Francis H. Beam1960–1961
Frank F. Brooks1937–1947
Frank H. Neely1937–1953
Frank J. Welch1955–1957
Frank R. Palmer1959–1961
Frank Turner1941–1946
Frank W. Sponable1936–1939
Frank. J. Lewis1936–1941
Franklin J. Lunding1949–1952
Franz Schneider1953–1958
Fred D. McCartney1940–1948
Frederic A. Potts1960–1961
Frederic Benett Whitman1960–1961
Frederic Earl Worden1948–1950
Frederic Haines Curtiss1936–1941
Frederick E. Williamson1942–1943
Frederick Steele Blackall, Jr.1946–1957
G.A. Frierson1945–1951
G.R. Corlis1938–1949
Geoffrey S. Smith1957–1959
George A. Hill, Jr.1941–1946
George Curwen Brainard1936–1952
George Dent Crabbs1936–1947
George H. Zimmerman1951–1951
George J. White1936–1950
George L. MacGregor1947–1952
George P. MacNichol, Jr.1957–1959
George S. Craft1961–1961
George W. McCormick1936–1937
George W. Reily1936–1951
George Willets Davison1936–1937
Gerald F. Langenohl1958–1961
H. Lee Cooper1958–1961
H.B. Zachry1959–1961
H.H. Cooley1960–1961
Hal Bogle1952–1959
Hans C. Hansen1936–1939
Harllee Branch, Jr.1954–1959
Harold C. Refling1955–1961
Harold D. Hodgkinson1947–1955
Harold Ira Chandler1952–1957
Harold Kountze1954–1961
Harold N. Thomson1951–1961
Harold O. McCutchan1957–1961
Harry B. McDowell1938–1946
Harry C. Wiess1938–1938
Harry Ellsworth Umphrey1953–1958
Harry H. Pond1945–1947
Harry L. Cannon1936–1943
Harry Lee Rust, Jr.1944–1955
Harry Richard Wellman1942–1954
Harvey C. Couch1938–1940
Harvey Perley Hood, II1951–1958
Henderson Supplee, Jr.1953–1961
Henry C. Alexander1959–1961
Henry F. Grady1942–1946
Henry G. Chalkley1956–1961
Henry H. Tucker1941–1945
Henry Ingraham Harriman1938–1946
Henry P. Drought1955–1956
Henry Sturgis Dennison1937–1945
Hiram Warner Martin1936–1936
Homer A. Scott1961–1961
Homer P. Clark1936–1955
Horace S. French1944–1952
Howard A. Loeb1942–1947
Howard A. Wilson1946–1948
Howard C. Shepherd1956–1958
Howard R. Kibbee1936–1938
J. Brenner Root1954–1956
J. Carl De La Cour1936–1939
J. Edd McLaughlin1947–1961
J. K. Palmer1956–1956
J. Milton Featherer1961–1961
J. Nyce Patterson1950–1952
J. Stuart Russell1954–1959
J.B. Doolin1936–1937
J.B. Perry, Jr.1960–1961
J.E. Corette1954–1960
J.E. Etherton1950–1958
J.H. Longwell1957–1961
J.Philip Redman1946–1948
J.R. Parten1944–1954
James C. Braswell1936–1946
James C. Stone1939–1939
James D. Harrison1946–1954
James DeCamp Wise1959–1961
James E. O'Connell1936–1947
James H. Merritt1937–1941
James Harold Hilton1960–1961
James M. West1939–1940
James P. Allen1936–1936
James R. Leavell1936–1936
James R. McKnight1939–1950
James Rhyne Killian, Jr.1954–1956
James T. Buckley1944–1946
James W. Harris1936–1942
Jay E. Crane1949–1953
Jay Taylor1937–1945
Jesse D. Wooten1958–1961
Jesse R. Milam1936–1950
Joe Frank Porter1937–1948
Joe W. Seacrest1955–1960
Joel M. Bowlby1948–1954
John A. Byerly1957–1959
John A. McCrary1936–1952
John A. Moorhead1958–1961
John A. Schoonover1953–1961
John A. Sydenstricker1942–1954
John B. Henning1936–1949
John Brockenbrough Woodward, Jr.1949–1954
John C. Traphagen1950–1952
John C. Virden1951–1956
John D. Bainer1947–1955
John D. Fredericks1961–1961
John D. Middleton1936–1939
John E. Bierwirth1953–1959
John E. Galvin1936–1939
John Evans1937–1938
John G. Lonsdale1936–1938
John H. Crocker1959–1961
John H. Warden1958–1961
John Hunter Hanna1936–1943
John M. Cheatham1960–1961
John M. Griffith1957–1961
John R. Alford1954–1959
John R. Evans1954–1956
John R. Stanley1936–1944
John S. Coleman1950–1955
John T. Rohr1948–1950
John W. Scott1954–1954
John W. Sheldon1961–1961
Joseph B. Cozzo1939–1943
Joseph B. Hall1955–1960
Joseph E. Healy1956–1957
Joseph E. Woods1941–1947
Joseph F. Ringland1956–1956
Joseph H. Moore1950–1957
Joseph H. Thompson1957–1961
Joseph M. Bernardin1936–1949
Joseph Rosenblatt1959–1961
Joseph T. Lykes1957–1958
Joseph Wayne, Jr.1936–1941
Judson Bemis1961–1961
K. August Engel1946–1949
Karl Taylor Compton1951–1953
Keith Powell1936–1939
Kenneth H. Hannan1960–1961
Kenneth S. Adams1954–1961
Kenton R. Cravens1957–1961
King E. Fauver1956–1958
L. Vinton Hershey1956–1961
L.Carson Hutson1944–1952
Lamar Fleming, Jr.1957–1961
Lansing P. Shield1953–1959
Lawrence H. Lund1948–1948
Lawrence N. Murray1951–1953
Lee E. Phillips1936–1943
Leo J. Wieck1954–1960
Leo Leavitt Rummell1949–1954
Leon A. Dodge1937–1948
Leon Fraser1941–1943
Leonard P. Pool1961–1961
Leslie N. Perrin1954–1959
Leslie R. Driver1950–1955
Lester V. Chandler1954–1959
Lewis Edgar Johnson1936–1941
Lewis H. Brown1947–1950
Lewis S. Reed1936–1941
Lindley S. Hurff1956–1958
Lloyd DeWitt Brace1951–1956
Louis Ruthenburg1945–1956
Lyle L. Hague1943–1954
M. Moss Alexander1949–1956
M. Vilas Hubbard1954–1961
Malcolm McNaghten1936–1936
Marion Bayard Folsom1949–1952
Max B. Nahm1936–1945
Max W. Babb1936–1942
McGregor Smith1959–1961
Melvin O. Grangaard1936–1940
Micajah P. Sturdivant1936–1938
Milton P. Higgins1956–1961
Morgan J. Davis1961–1961
Myron A. Limbocker1940–1950
N. Baxter Jackson1953–1955
N. Loyall McLaren1957–1961
Neil H. Dorrance1940–1942
Nicholas H. Noyes1936–1951
Nils Yngve Wessell1957–1961
Nugent R. Oberwortmann1953–1958
O. Albert Johnson1959–1961
Oliver B. Ellsworth1953–1958
Oliver S. Willham1955–1961
Oscar Bernard Jesness1955–1960
Oscar G. Johnston1938–1943
Otis A. Thompson1938–1941
Owen D. Young1936–1940
P.P. Butler1949–1954
Pat E. Hooks1936–1940
Paul A. Warner1958–1961
Paul Dillard1936–1937
Paul E. Reinhold1949–1954
Paul G. Hoffman1942–1949
Phil E. Chappell1946–1957
Philip D. Reed1959–1961
Philip I. Welk1955–1960
Philip R. Allen1936–1950
Philip T. Sharples1949–1949
Philip Young1952–1952
Pierre B. McBride1957–1961
Pollard Turman1953–1960
R. Russell Pippin1957–1961
R.B. Anderson1946–1952
R.C. Williams1946–1951
R.E. Harding1936–1936
Ralph E. Plunkett1950–1953
Randolph E. Paul1941–1941
Ray H. Adkins1959–1961
Raymond C. Force1940–1941
Raymond C. Lange1943–1961
Raymond E. Salvati1960–1961
Raymond W. Hall1953–1961
Reese H. Taylor1937–1958
Reno Odlin1939–1944
Reynold E. Klages1937–1948
Richard L. Austin1936–1938
Robert A. Olson1960–1961
Robert B. Caldwell1938–1952
Robert C. Sprague1955–1960
Robert D. Calkins1943–1949
Robert E. Wood1936–1940
Robert E.L. Johnson1961–1961
Robert Gage1957–1959
Robert J. Smith1953–1960
Robert L. Mehornay1942–1950
Robert Lassiter1936–1946
Robert O. Huffman1955–1960
Robert P. Briggs1956–1961
Robert Porter Patterson1950–1951
Robert Strickland1945–1945
Robert T. Stevens1936–1952
Robert Wardrop1936–1936
Roger B. Prescott1949–1951
Roger B. Shepard1939–1953
Roland L. Adams1951–1959
Ross Pier Wright1936–1949
Roy Leonard Patrick1944–1952
Roy Riddel1961–1961
Rufus Carrollton Harris1938–1955
Russell Hale Britton1949–1951
Russell L. Dearmont1945–1953
Ryburn G. Clay1936–1939
S. J. Beauchamp, Jr.1954–1961
S. Sloan Colt1944–1946
S.B. Perkins1936–1936
Shirley S. Ford1941–1944
Sidney A. Swensrud1953–1955
Sidney Maestre1939–1944
Simeon Elbridge Leland1941–1947
St. George Holden1938–1950
Stanford T. Crapo1936–1938
Stanley M. Cooper1958–1959
Thomas A. Dines1939–1953
Thomas E. Millsop1940–1947
Thomas G. Harrison1956–1961
Thomas H. Ramsay1936–1938
Thomas J. Watson1936–1940
Thomas K. Glenn1940–1944
Vivian W. Johnson1945–1961
W. Cordes Snyder, Jr.1960–1961
W. Elbridge Brown1955–1957
W. Maxey Jarman1961–1961
W. W. Waymack1941–1945
W.A. Denecke1951–1953
W.B. Plunkett1936–1937
W.C. Bowman1952–1960
W.F. Beall1946–1952
W.L. Peterson1948–1956
W.O. Washburn1936–1940
W.W. Knight1936–1936
Wadsworth Cresse1952–1954
Walter C. Coffey1938–1945
Walter C. Teagle1936–1941
Walter E. Hawkinson1952–1957
Walter E. Hoadley, Jr.1958–1961
Walter H. Lippincott1948–1950
Walter H. Lloyd1941–1941
Walter H. McLeod1948–1950
Walter J. Cummings1937–1960
Walter P. Napier1943–1948
Walter S. Johnson1946–1961
Walton N. Moore1936–1936
Ward D. Kerlin1940–1945
Warren C. Newton1951–1956
Warren F. Whittier1939–1952
Warren S. Johnson1947–1955
Warren W. Clute, Jr.1943–1945
Willard D. Hosford1936–1950
William A. Hanley1954–1961
William A. McDonnell1951–1956
William A.L. Sibley1954–1959
William B. Brosius1958–1960
William C. Carter1956–1961
William C. Heath1943–1951
William C. Potter1938–1940
William D. Cochran1938–1950
William D. Cook1936–1949
William D. Ireland1957–1961
William F. Ploch1937–1939
William Fulton Kurtz1954–1956
William G. Volkmann1937–1943
William G. Wysor1937–1954
William H. Bryce1948–1953
William H. Grier1960–1961
William H. Kettig1936–1937
William H. Stead1944–1944
William Irving Myers1943–1953
William J. Field1942–1944
William J. Grede1947–1961
William J. Meinel1947–1957
William L. Bunten1942–1959
William M. Lockwood1959–1961
William R. Robbins1960–1961
William R. Sinclair1952–1953
William R. Wallace, Jr.1947–1953
William S. Kennedy1951–1961
William T. Nardin1937–1945
William W. Crocker1947–1952
William Webster1961–1961
Winfield W. Riefler1941–1941
Winthrop W. Aldrich1947–1949
Young Frank Freeman1954–1961

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