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John R. Opel

1981–1988

Director (Class B)Director (Chair)

Born

1925

Meetings at the table

0

Geography

Class B director at New York (2) · director and chair at New York (2) · where the Board comes from

In their time

Policy rate

10% → 8.69%

−131 bp · Oct 1982 – Dec 1988 (the series starts in Oct 1982)

Seats held

Director (Class B)New York1981–1986
Director (Chair)New York1987–1988

Education

Master's, Business — University of Chicago (1949)

Terminal: Master's · business

Served alongside (344)

Chairs · 2

Alan Greenspan1987–1988
Paul A. Volcker1981–1987

Governors · 14

Donald L. Kohn1986–1988
Edward W. Kelley Jr.1987–1988
Emmett J. Rice1981–1986
Frederick H. Schultz1981–1982
H. Robert Heller1986–1988
Henry C. Wallich1981–1986
J. Charles Partee

Recessions

1

1981–82

US presidents

2

Carter · Reagan

1981–1986

John P. Laware1988–1988

Lyle E. Gramley1981–1985

Manuel H. Johnson1986–1988

Martha R. Seger1984–1988

Nancy H. Teeters1981–1984

Preston Martin1982–1986

Wayne D. Angell1981–1988

Reserve Bank presidents · 22

Anthony M. Solomon1981–1984
David P. Eastburn1981–1981
E. Gerald Corrigan1981–1988
Edward G. Boehne1981–1988
Frank E. Morris1981–1988
Gary H. Stern1985–1988
J. Roger Guffey1981–1988
Jack Guynn1984–1988
John J. Balles1981–1986
Karen N. Horn1982–1987
Lawrence K. Roos1981–1983
Robert H. Boykin1981–1988
Robert P. Black1981–1988
Robert P. Forrestal1981–1988
Robert P. Mayo1981–1981
Robert T. Parry1986–1988
Silas Keehn1981–1988
Theodore H. Roberts1983–1984
Thomas C. Melzer1985–1988
W. Lee Hoskins1987–1988
William F. Ford1981–1983
Willis J. Winn1981–1982

Staff · 43

Allen E. Beutel1985–1988
Brent L. Bowen1987–1988
Bruce M. Beardsley1985–1988
Carl E. Powell1986–1988
Charles L. Hampton1981–1984
Clyde H. Farnsworth, Jr.1982–1988
Daniel M. Doyle1981–1988
David L. Shannon1981–1988
Donal E. Anderson1981–1983
Donald W. Moriarty, Jr.1981–1982
Edwin M. Truman1981–1988
Griffith L. Garwood1982–1988
Henry R. Czerwinski1981–1988
James A. McIntosh1981–1983
James H. Oltman1988–1988
James L. Kichline1981–1986
James R. Bowen1987–1988
James R. Kudlinski1981–1981
Janet O. Hart1981–1981
Jimmie R. Monhollon1981–1988
John B. Williams1981–1982
John E. Ryan1981–1984
John M. Denkler1981–1982
Joseph P. Garbarini1983–1986
Michael Bradfield1981–1988
Michael J. Prell1987–1988
Richard L. Smoot1981–1986
Richard T. Griffith1983–1985
Robert E. Frazier1984–1988
Robert W. Eisenmenger1984–1988
S. David Frost1983–1988
Stephen H. Axilrod1981–1985
Theodore E. Allison1981–1988
Thomas E. Gainor1981–1988
Thomas M. Timlen, Jr.1981–1987
Walter H. MacDonald1981–1981
William H. Hendricks1982–1988
William H. Stone, Jr.1987–1988
William H. Wallace1981–1988
William R. Jones1985–1985
William Taylor1985–1988
William W. Wiles1981–1988
Williiam R. Jones1986–1988

Reserve Bank directors · 263

Alan C. Furth1981–1986
Alan R. Sleeper1981–1981
Alberto M. Paracchini1987–1988
Alfred Brittain III1983–1985
Armand C. Stalnaker1981–1982
B.F. "Chip" Backlund1987–1988
Barry F. Sullivan1985–1988
Bernard Francis Sliger1983–1988
Bobby R. Inman1984–1988
Boris Yavitz1981–1982
Bradley Currey, Jr.1984–1988
Bruce C. Adams1988–1988
Burton P. Allen, Jr.1984–1986
Carl E. Singley1984–1988
Carol R. Goldberg1981–1982
Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson1981–1984
Carolyn S. Chambers1985–1988
Charles C. Gates1981–1984
Charles F. Seymour1985–1988
Charles M. Bliss1983–1984
Charles S. McNeer1986–1988
Charles T. Doyle1986–1988
Charles W. Ekstrum1987–1988
Charles W. Parry1987–1988
Chester A. Duke1987–1988
Clair L. Peck, Jr.1981–1982
Clarence C. Barksdale1981–1986
Clarence D. McCormick1986–1988
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr.1983–1986
Constantinos I. Costalas1988–1988
Cordell W. Hull1988–1988
Cornell C. Maier1981–1981
Curtis W. Kuehn1983–1985
Dale W. Fern1982–1984
Dan B. Andrews1981–1985
Daniel M. Galbreath1986–1988
David W. Kemper II1987–1988
Delbert W. Johnson1988–1988
Dennis W. Hunt1981–1984
Donald D. Hoffman1985–1987
Donald J. Gehb1985–1987
Donald J. Seebold1981–1982
Donald L. Hunt1981–1985
Doris M Drury1981–1984
Douglas E. Johnson1982–1984
Duane Calvin Acker1982–1985
Duane W. Ring1986–1988
E. Mandell de Windt1981–1986
E.B. Robinson, Jr.1985–1988
Earl R. St. John, Jr.1988–1988
Eberhard Faber, IV1981–1985
Edward D. Powers1985–1988
Edward F. Brabec1981–1984
Edward H. Covell1986–1988
Edward L. Hennessy, Jr.1981–1984
Edwin A. Huston1988–1988
Ellen Victoria Futter1988–1988
Everett L. Maffett1981–1981
Floyd D. Gottwald, Jr.1985–1987
Floyd W. Lewis1981–1981
Frank A. Jones, Jr.1981–1986
Frank M. Mitchener, Jr.1987–1988
Frank Wobst1987–1988
Fred A. White1981–1981
Fred Adams, Jr.1981–1981
Fred W. Andrew1982–1987
Frederick G. Larkin, Jr.1981–1982
Frederick W. Lyons, Jr.1985–1988
Gary E. Wood1987–1988
Gary J. Chouest1988–1988
Gene Edwards1985–1987
George A. Butler1987–1988
George Dean Johnson, Jr.1984–1985
George E. Bartol, III1982–1987
George H. Weyerhauser1982–1987
George M. Ryrie1981–1984
George Nicholas Hatsopoulos1982–1988
Gerald D. Hines1981–1983
Gertrude G. Michelson1981–1984
Gordon T. Wallis1981–1982
Guy W. Botts1981–1984
H. Alan Timm1981–1982
H. Edwin Trusheim1987–1988
Hanne Merriman1985–1988
Harold B. Blach, Jr.1981–1986
Harold F. Zigmund1981–1986
Harold L. Gerhart, Jr.1986–1988
Harry A. Jensen1981–1983
Harry R. Mitiguy1986–1986
Henry N. Ness1981–1982
Henry S. Woodbridge, Jr.1981–1983
Homer B. Ellis, Jr.1985–1987
Horatio C. Thompson1982–1987
Howard K. Loomis1981–1985
Hugh G. Robinson1985–1988
Hugh L. Hembree III1985–1988
Hugh M. Willson1981–1983
Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr.1984–1988
J. Banks Scarborough1981–1983
J. David Barnes1981–1986
J. Kirby Fowler1988–1988
J. Wayland Bennett1981–1984
J.L. Jackson1981–1983
J.R. Vaughan1981–1983
Jack C. Smith1988–1988
James A. Chapman, Jr.1981–1982
James G. Harlow, Jr.1981–1983
James Stokes Hatch1982–1984
James Whelden1981–1981
Jane C. Cousins1982–1987
Jane G. Pepper1988–1988
Janet McAfee Weakley1988–1988
Jean A. Crockett1981–1982
Jean McArthur Davis1981–1982
Jerry D. Geist1986–1988
Jesse M. Shaver1982–1987
JoAnne Brinzey1983–1985
Joe F. Kirby1981–1982
Joel B. Alvord1988–1988
Joel S. Harris1988–1988
John A. Georges1987–1988
John A. Rollwagen1986–1988
John B. Davis, Jr.1982–1987
John C. Hampton1984–1988
John D. Anderson1981–1983
John D. Woods1981–1984
John F. Anderson1981–1984
John F. McGillicuddy1988–1988
John F. McNair, III1988–1988
John F. Welch, Jr.1985–1988
John H. Walther1984–1986
John H. Weitnauer, Jr.1981–1986
John N. Nordstrom1988–1988
John P. Gilliam1981–1985
John R. Hall1984–1986
John R. Miller1986–1988
John Sagan1981–1983
John V. James1981–1984
John W. Alford1981–1982
John W. Eckman1981–1981
John W. Gabbert1986–1988
John W. Kessler1981–1985
Joseph A. Baute1981–1987
Joseph A. Jennings1982–1984
K. Donald Menefee1986–1988
Keith D. Bjerke1987–1987
L. Kent Gilbreath1981–1986
Laban P. Jackson, Jr.1987–1988
Larry L. Prince1987–1988
Leo E. Linbeck, Jr.1987–1988
Leon A. Dunn, Jr.1981–1983
Leon T. Kendall1981–1986
Leroy T. Canoles, Jr.1984–1988
Lewis Honyman Bond1981–1984
Lewis R. Smoot, Sr.1984–1985
Lewis T. Preston1986–1987
Maceo A. Sloan1981–1981
Malcolm T. Stamper1981–1981
Marcus Alexis1985–1988
Margaret S. Wilson1981–1982
Mary Garst1981–1985
Mary P. Holt1981–1986
Mary W. Walker1984–1988
Matina Souretis Horner1983–1988
Maurice R. Greenberg1988–1988
Max J. Naylor1986–1988
Michael Joseph Harrington1981–1986
Michael W. Wright1985–1988
Miles D. Wilson1981–1986
Nevius M. Curtis1983–1988
Nicholas Riso1986–1988
Ole R. Mettler1981–1983
Ollie Jay Tomson1981–1986
Patrick E. McNarny1981–1985
Paul E. Reichardt1981–1982
Paul G. Miller1981–1984
Paul H. Henson1981–1983
Paul J. Schierl1987–1988
Paul K. Reynolds1986–1987
Paul W. Green1987–1988
Peter A. Benoliel1987–1988
Peter D. Kiernan1981–1983
R. Blair Hawkes1988–1988
Ralph Z. Sorenson1986–1987
Rayburn S. Dezember1984–1988
Raymond D. Campbell1982–1987
Richard D. Hannan1982–1987
Richard D. Harrison1984–1988
Richard D. Wardell1988–1988
Richard L. Falconer1983–1988
Richard L. Gelb1986–1988
Richard L. Taylor1988–1988
Richard M. Oster1985–1988
Richard Newell Cooper1987–1988
Richard P. Hauser1981–1984
Robert A. Georgine1983–1988
Robert A. Rough1982–1984
Robert A. Young1981–1983
Robert D. Kilpatrick1981–1981
Robert D. Rogers1981–1986
Robert D. Storey1987–1988
Robert F. Baronner1985–1987
Robert F. Erburu1987–1988
Robert G. Greer1987–1988
Robert G. Lueder1985–1987
Robert H. Deacon1981–1981
Robert H. Knight1981–1982
Robert J. Day1984–1988
Robert J. Sweeney1983–1988
Robert L. Hollis1986–1988
Robert L. Newell1987–1987
Robert L. Pfluger1985–1988
Robert L. Virgil, Jr.1983–1988
Robert M. Landis1981–1986
Robert Paul Henderson1981–1984
Robert S. Chiles, Sr.1984–1986
Robert S. Hillas1981–1983
Robert Ted Enloe, III1983–1988
Robert W. Moyer1985–1987
Roger E. Anderson1981–1982
Roger L. Reisher1988–1988
Roger W. Schipke1988–1988
Ronald H. Smith1985–1987
Russell G. Cleary1981–1981
S. Dean Evans, Sr.1987–1988
S. John Brademas1983–1987
Sister Generose Gervais1981–1985
Spencer F. Eccles1983–1988
Stanton R. Cook1981–1985
Stephen F. Keating1981–1981
Stephen R. Levy1988–1988
Steven Muller1981–1983
T. Joseph Semrod1984–1986
Thomas B. Cookerly1984–1988
Thomas Claiborne Frost1988–1988
Thomas E. Rodriguez1988–1988
Thomas Irving Atkins1981–1985
Thomas K. Smith Jr.1981–1981
Thomas M. Strong1985–1987
Togo W. Tanaka1983–1988
Vern A. Marquardt1981–1983
Verna K. Gibson1988–1988
Vincent C. Burke, Jr.1981–1981
Virgil H. Moore1986–1988
Virginia A. Dwyer1985–1987
W.L. Hadley Griffin1982–1987
Walter J. Robb1981–1981
Willard H. Derrick1983–1985
William A. Fickling, Jr.1981–1983
William A. Stroud1983–1988
William B. Walton1981–1981
William C. Bullock, Jr.1987–1988
William G. Phillips1981–1984
William H. Knoell1981–1986
William H. May1988–1988
William H. Stroube1981–1981
William L. Mathers1982–1987
William M. Dickson1981–1982
William S. Cook1981–1985
William S. Edgerly1984–1986
William S. Lee, III1982–1984
William Wardwell Treat1983–1985
Zane G. Murfitt1981–1981