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James K. Vardaman, Jr. · Armchair FedWatcher · Kaleb Nygaard

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James K. Vardaman, Jr.

1946–1958

GovernorWikipedia

Born

1894

Greenwood, Mississippi

Died

1972

Meetings at the table

158

158/281 (123 absent)

Geography

born Greenwood, Mississippi · represented St. Louis (8), past job · where the Board comes from

In their time

Meetings by Chair

Dissents witnessed

2

at 2 of 107 meetings

Unanimous

98%

105 of 107 meetings

Seats held

GovernorBoard of Governors1946–1958
Apr 4, 1946 – Nov 30, 1958 · represents the St. Louis district (past job)

Before the Fed

Military · US Navy

Education

Degree — University of Mississippi (1912)
Degree, Law — Millsaps College (1914)
None/unknown, Law — Millsaps College (1914)

Terminal: None/unknown · law

Served alongside (383)

Chairs · 3

Marriner S. Eccles1946–1951
Thomas B. McCabe1946–1951
William McChesney Martin Jr.1951–1958

Governors · 14

A.L. Mills, Jr.1952–1958
C. Canby Balderston1946–1958
Charles N. Shepardson1955–1958
Chester C. Davis1946–1951
Edward L. Norton1950–1952
Ernest G. Draper

Recessions

3

1948–49 · 1953–54 · 1957–58

US presidents

2

Truman · Eisenhower

1946–1950

James L. Robertson1952–1958

John K. Mckee1946–1946

Lawrence Clayton1947–1949

M.S. Szymczak1946–1958

Oliver S. Powell1946–1957

Paul E. Miller1946–1954

Ronald Ransom1946–1947

Rudolph M. Evans1946–1954

Reserve Bank presidents · 24

Alfred H. Williams1946–1958
Alfred Hayes1956–1958
Allan Sproul1946–1956
C. E. Earhart1946–1956
Carl E. Allen1956–1958
Clifford S. Young1946–1956
Delos C. Johns1951–1958
Edward A. Wayne1950–1958
Eliot J. Swan1956–1958
Frederick L. Deming1953–1958
H. Gavin Leedy1946–1958
Hermann N. Mangels1947–1958
Hugh Leach1946–1958
Ira Clerk1946–1946
John N. Peyton1946–1952
Joseph A. Erickson1948–1958
Karl R. Bopp1958–1958
Laurence F. Whittemore1946–1948
Malcolm H. Bryan1951–1958
Ray M. Gidney1946–1953
Robert R. Gilbert1946–1953
Watrous H. Irons1954–1958
Wilbur D. Fulton1953–1958
William S. Mclarin Jr.1946–1951

Staff · 52

S. R. Carpenter1946–1957
George B. Vest1946–1956
Woodlief Thomas1946–1948
Tilford C. Gaines1953–1958
Chester Morrill1946–1950
Ralph A. Young1949–1958
Arthur Willis1947–1953
R. A. Young1951–1958
Merritt Sherman1958–1958
Frederic Solomon1957–1958
Robert F. Leach1950–1953
O. P. Wheeler1952–1958
William F. Treiber1952–1958
Arthur W. Marget1950–1958
John H. Williams1946–1952
Howard H. Hackley1957–1958
Ralph F. Leach1951–1953
Robert O. Anderson1958–1958
A. W. Mills1950–1958
Alfred C. Neal1951–1955
Arthur Phelan1950–1950
Carl E. Parry1946–1947
Charles B. Dunn1946–1948
Donald S. Thompson1953–1958
Dwight L. Allen1951–1953
E. C. Harris1950–1958
E. O. Latham1956–1958
Edward L. Smead1946–1948
Edwin J. Johnson1954–1958
Edwin R. Millard1948–1949
F. Guy Hitt1946–1950
Fred A. Nelson1946–1949
G. Howland Chase1952–1952
Gardner L. Boothe, II1952–1958
George S. Sloan1951–1956
Guy E. Noyes1951–1951
Guy S. Freutel1957–1958
Henry O. Koppang1946–1958
J. Leonard Townsend1948–1951
John S. Walden, Jr.1946–1952
Joseph E. Kelleher1958–1958
L. R. Rounds1946–1951
Lewis M. Clark1946–1958
Liston P. Bethea1946–1957
O. M. Attebery1951–1952
Robert C. Masters1957–1958
Robert F. Leonard1946–1958
Robert N. Hilkert1950–1958
W. D. Gentry1946–1958
W. J. Davis1946–1957
William H. Fletcher1946–1952
William Willett1946–1950

Reserve Bank directors · 290

J.B. Thomas1953–1958
Max A. Miller1952–1958
Thomas K. Smith1946–1950
Walter M. Mitchell1956–1958
A. Wessel Shapleigh1946–1948
A.B. Freeman1948–1956
A.Z. Baker1946–1950
Albert G. Frost1946–1951
Albert Morton Creighton1946–1950
Alden G. Roach1951–1955
Alexander E. Walker1954–1956
Alexander Harry Brawner1954–1958
Allan B. Kline1948–1953
Allan Forbes1946–1950
Allen W. Holmes1946–1946
Alonzo G. Decker, Jr.1954–1958
Ames Stevens1948–1954
Andrew Kaul, III1952–1954
Archie Dean Swift1948–1953
Arthur B. Van Buskirk1956–1958
Arthur F. Maxwell1958–1958
Arthur H. Quay1950–1950
Aubrey J. Brown1958–1958
Augustus C. Long1957–1958
Bayard L. England1955–1958
Beardsley Ruml1946–1946
Ben R. Conner1946–1951
Bernard C. Wolfe1953–1955
Bert R. Prall1953–1958
Brayton Wilbur1946–1953
Burr P. Cleveland1951–1953
C.L. Austin1949–1950
C.W. Burges1949–1953
Caffey Robertson1954–1956
Carle C. Conway1946–1948
Carroll F. Byrd1946–1958
Cary L. Page1948–1953
Cecil Puckett1952–1954
Charles A. Higgins1946–1947
Charles C. Reed1946–1949
Charles E. Oakes1951–1958
Charles Edward Adams1946–1948
Charles J. Stilwell1951–1953
Charles Kenneth McIntosh1946–1946
Charles Perry McCormick1946–1953
Charles W. Bitzer1957–1958
Charles Z. Hardwick1956–1958
Chas. H. Stewart1946–1953
Clarence E. Hill1946–1949
Clarence Francis1951–1958
Clarence W. Avery1946–1948
Cyrus M. Higley1958–1958
D.A. Hulcy1952–1958
Daniel W. Bell1955–1957
Dean Wallace Colvard1955–1958
Denver L. Morgan1958–1958
Donald Comer1946–1958
Donald K. David1946–1947
Donaldson Brown1946–1946
Douglas W. Brooks1946–1947
E.M. Dodds1950–1958
Earle W. Stamm1947–1952
Edgar F. Zelle1952–1955
Edison Hobstetter1952–1957
Edward C. Doll1950–1955
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.1947–1948
Edwin Hyde1951–1954
Edwin Malloy1946–1947
Ernest T. George1946–1947
F. Albee Flodin1951–1957
F. Palmer Armstrong1952–1954
Ferd I. Collins1955–1957
Forrest F. Hill1954–1958
Frank F. Brooks1946–1947
Frank H. Neely1946–1953
Frank J. Welch1955–1957
Frank Turner1946–1946
Franklin J. Lunding1949–1952
Franz Schneider1953–1958
Fred D. McCartney1946–1948
Frederic Earl Worden1948–1950
Frederick Steele Blackall, Jr.1946–1957
G.A. Frierson1946–1951
G.R. Corlis1946–1949
Geoffrey S. Smith1957–1958
George A. Hill, Jr.1946–1946
George Curwen Brainard1946–1952
George Dent Crabbs1946–1947
George H. Zimmerman1951–1951
George J. White1946–1950
George L. MacGregor1947–1952
George P. MacNichol, Jr.1957–1958
George W. Reily1946–1951
Gerald F. Langenohl1958–1958
H. Lee Cooper1958–1958
Hal Bogle1952–1958
Harllee Branch, Jr.1954–1958
Harold C. Refling1955–1958
Harold D. Hodgkinson1947–1955
Harold Ira Chandler1952–1957
Harold Kountze1954–1958
Harold N. Thomson1951–1958
Harold O. McCutchan1957–1958
Harry B. McDowell1946–1946
Harry Ellsworth Umphrey1953–1958
Harry H. Pond1946–1947
Harry Lee Rust, Jr.1946–1955
Harry Richard Wellman1946–1954
Harvey Perley Hood, II1951–1958
Henderson Supplee, Jr.1953–1958
Henry F. Grady1946–1946
Henry G. Chalkley1956–1958
Henry Ingraham Harriman1946–1946
Henry P. Drought1955–1956
Homer P. Clark1946–1955
Horace S. French1946–1952
Howard A. Loeb1946–1947
Howard A. Wilson1946–1948
Howard C. Shepherd1956–1958
J. Brenner Root1954–1956
J. Edd McLaughlin1947–1958
J. K. Palmer1956–1956
J. Nyce Patterson1950–1952
J. Stuart Russell1954–1958
J.E. Corette1954–1958
J.E. Etherton1950–1958
J.H. Longwell1957–1958
J.Philip Redman1946–1948
J.R. Parten1946–1954
James C. Braswell1946–1946
James D. Harrison1946–1954
James E. O'Connell1946–1947
James R. McKnight1946–1950
James Rhyne Killian, Jr.1954–1956
James T. Buckley1946–1946
Jay E. Crane1949–1953
Jesse D. Wooten1958–1958
Jesse R. Milam1946–1950
Joe Frank Porter1946–1948
Joe W. Seacrest1955–1958
Joel M. Bowlby1948–1954
John A. Byerly1957–1958
John A. McCrary1946–1952
John A. Moorhead1958–1958
John A. Schoonover1953–1958
John A. Sydenstricker1946–1954
John B. Henning1946–1949
John Brockenbrough Woodward, Jr.1949–1954
John C. Traphagen1950–1952
John C. Virden1951–1956
John D. Bainer1947–1955
John E. Bierwirth1953–1958
John H. Warden1958–1958
John M. Griffith1957–1958
John R. Alford1954–1958
John R. Evans1954–1956
John S. Coleman1950–1955
John T. Rohr1948–1950
John W. Scott1954–1954
Joseph B. Hall1955–1958
Joseph E. Healy1956–1957
Joseph E. Woods1946–1947
Joseph F. Ringland1956–1956
Joseph H. Moore1950–1957
Joseph H. Thompson1957–1958
Joseph M. Bernardin1946–1949
Joseph T. Lykes1957–1958
K. August Engel1946–1949
Karl Taylor Compton1951–1953
Kenneth S. Adams1954–1958
Kenton R. Cravens1957–1958
King E. Fauver1956–1958
L. Vinton Hershey1956–1958
L.Carson Hutson1946–1952
Lamar Fleming, Jr.1957–1958
Lansing P. Shield1953–1958
Lawrence H. Lund1948–1948
Lawrence N. Murray1951–1953
Leo J. Wieck1954–1958
Leo Leavitt Rummell1949–1954
Leon A. Dodge1946–1948
Leslie N. Perrin1954–1958
Leslie R. Driver1950–1955
Lester V. Chandler1954–1958
Lewis H. Brown1947–1950
Lindley S. Hurff1956–1958
Lloyd DeWitt Brace1951–1956
Louis Ruthenburg1946–1956
Lyle L. Hague1946–1954
M. Moss Alexander1949–1956
M. Vilas Hubbard1954–1958
Marion Bayard Folsom1949–1952
Milton P. Higgins1956–1958
Myron A. Limbocker1946–1950
N. Baxter Jackson1953–1955
N. Loyall McLaren1957–1958
Nicholas H. Noyes1946–1951
Nils Yngve Wessell1957–1958
Nugent R. Oberwortmann1953–1958
Oliver B. Ellsworth1953–1958
Oliver S. Willham1955–1958
Oscar Bernard Jesness1955–1958
P.P. Butler1949–1954
Paul A. Warner1958–1958
Paul E. Reinhold1949–1954
Paul G. Hoffman1946–1949
Phil E. Chappell1946–1957
Philip I. Welk1955–1958
Philip R. Allen1946–1950
Philip T. Sharples1949–1949
Philip Young1952–1952
Pierre B. McBride1957–1958
Pollard Turman1953–1958
R. Russell Pippin1957–1958
R.B. Anderson1946–1952
R.C. Williams1946–1951
Ralph E. Plunkett1950–1953
Raymond C. Lange1946–1958
Raymond W. Hall1953–1958
Reese H. Taylor1946–1958
Reynold E. Klages1946–1948
Robert B. Caldwell1946–1952
Robert C. Sprague1955–1958
Robert D. Calkins1946–1949
Robert Gage1957–1958
Robert J. Smith1953–1958
Robert L. Mehornay1946–1950
Robert Lassiter1946–1946
Robert O. Huffman1955–1958
Robert P. Briggs1956–1958
Robert Porter Patterson1950–1951
Robert T. Stevens1948–1952
Roger B. Prescott1949–1951
Roger B. Shepard1946–1953
Roland L. Adams1951–1958
Ross Pier Wright1946–1949
Roy Leonard Patrick1946–1952
Rufus Carrollton Harris1946–1955
Russell Hale Britton1949–1951
Russell L. Dearmont1946–1953
S. J. Beauchamp, Jr.1954–1958
S. Sloan Colt1946–1946
Sam D. Young1955–1958
Sidney A. Swensrud1953–1955
Simeon Elbridge Leland1946–1947
St. George Holden1946–1950
Stanley M. Cooper1958–1958
Thomas A. Dines1946–1953
Thomas E. Millsop1946–1947
Thomas G. Harrison1956–1958
Vivian W. Johnson1946–1958
W. Elbridge Brown1955–1957
W.A. Denecke1951–1953
W.C. Bowman1952–1958
W.F. Beall1946–1952
W.L. Peterson1948–1956
Wadsworth Cresse1952–1954
Walter E. Hawkinson1952–1957
Walter E. Hoadley, Jr.1958–1958
Walter H. Lippincott1948–1950
Walter H. McLeod1948–1950
Walter J. Cummings1946–1958
Walter P. Napier1946–1948
Walter S. Johnson1946–1958
Warren C. Newton1951–1956
Warren F. Whittier1946–1952
Warren S. Johnson1947–1955
Willard D. Hosford1946–1950
William A. Hanley1954–1958
William A. McDonnell1951–1956
William A.L. Sibley1954–1958
William B. Brosius1958–1958
William C. Carter1956–1958
William C. Heath1946–1951
William D. Cochran1946–1950
William D. Cook1946–1949
William D. Ireland1957–1958
William Fulton Kurtz1954–1956
William G. Wysor1946–1954
William H. Bryce1948–1953
William Irving Myers1946–1953
William J. Grede1947–1958
William J. Meinel1947–1957
William L. Bunten1946–1958
William R. Sinclair1952–1953
William R. Wallace, Jr.1947–1953
William S. Kennedy1951–1958
William W. Crocker1947–1952
Winthrop W. Aldrich1947–1949
Young Frank Freeman1954–1958

Lineage

Board seat 5Mckee1936–1946→1946–1958→King1959–1963

Who held each seat