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Richard F. Syron

1989–1994

Reserve Bank PresidentWikipedia

Born

Oct 25, 1943

Meetings at the table

71

71/76 (5 absent)

Geography

president at Boston (1) · where the Board comes from

In their time

Meetings by Chair

Policy rate

8.69% → 3.5%

−519 bp · Jan 1989 – Mar 1994

Seats held

Reserve Bank PresidentBoston1989–1994
Jan 1, 1989 – Mar 31, 1994

Before the Fed

Economist · Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston

Education

Bachelor's — Boston College (1966)
PhD, Economics — Tufts University (1971)

Terminal: PhD · economics

Served alongside (291)

Chairs · 1

Alan Greenspan1989–1994

Governors · 10

Donald L. Kohn1989–1994
David W. Mullins, Jr.1990–1994
Edward W. Kelley Jr.1989–1994
H. Robert Heller1989–1989
John P. Laware1989–1994
Lawrence B. Lindsey1991–1994
Manuel H. Johnson1989–1990
Martha R. Seger

Rate moves

4 hikes · 16 cuts

37 holds at their meetings

Dissents witnessed

44

at 23 of 48 meetings

Unanimous

52%

25 of 48 meetings

Recessions

1

1990–91

US presidents

3

Reagan · G.H.W. Bush · Clinton

1989–1991

Susan M. Phillips1991–1994

Wayne D. Angell1989–1994

Reserve Bank presidents · 19

Cathy E. Minehan1991–1993
E. Gerald Corrigan1989–1993
Edward G. Boehne1989–1994
Gary H. Stern1989–1994
J. Alfred Broaddus Jr.1993–1994
J. Roger Guffey1989–1991
Jack Guynn1989–1994
Jerry L Jordan1992–1994
Robert D. Mcteer Jr.1991–1994
Robert H. Boykin1989–1991
Robert P. Black1989–1992
Robert P. Forrestal1989–1994
Robert T. Parry1989–1994
Sandra Pianalto1993–1994
Silas Keehn1989–1994
Thomas C. Melzer1989–1994
Thomas M. Hoenig1991–1994
W. Lee Hoskins1989–1991
William J. Mcdonough1993–1994

Staff · 36

Michael J. Prell1989–1994
J. Virgil Mattingly, Jr.1989–1994
Edwin M. Truman1989–1994
John B. Davis, Jr.1989–1994
William W. Wiles1989–1994
James H. Oltman1989–1994
Ernest T. Patrikis1993–1994
Allen E. Beutel1989–1990
Brent L. Bowen1989–1994
Bruce M. Beardsley1989–1990
Carl E. Powell1989–1990
Clyde H. Farnsworth, Jr.1989–1994
Colleen K. Strand1993–1994
Daniel M. Doyle1989–1991
David L. Shannon1989–1994
Griffith L. Garwood1989–1994
Henry R. Czerwinski1989–1993
James R. Bowen1989–1994
Jimmie R. Monhollon1989–1994
Patrick K. Barron1991–1994
Paul M. Connolly1994–1994
Richard K. Rasdall, Jr.1994–1994
Richard Spillenkothen1991–1994
Robert E. Frazier1989–1994
Robert W. Eisenmenger1989–1990
S. David Frost1989–1994
Stephen R. Malphrus1991–1994
Theodore E. Allison1989–1990
Thomas E. Gainor1989–1992
Tony J. Salvaggio1991–1994
William C. Conrad1992–1994
William H. Hendricks1989–1992
William H. Stone, Jr.1989–1994
William H. Wallace1989–1990
William Taylor1989–1990
Williiam R. Jones1989–1990

Reserve Bank directors · 225

A. Charlene Sullivan1991–1994
A. Pierce Stone1990–1992
A. William Reynolds1991–1994
Alberto M. Paracchini1989–1989
Alfred C. Leist1991–1994
Andre M. Rubenstein1991–1994
Anne Marie Whittemore1989–1993
Arnold C. Schultz1993–1994
B.F. "Chip" Backlund1989–1992
Barbara Harding1991–1993
Barry F. Sullivan1989–1990
Bobby R. Inman1989–1990
Bradley Currey, Jr.1989–1989
Bruce C. Adams1989–1992
Burton A. Dole, Jr.1989–1994
Carl E. Singley1989–1989
Carl J. Schmitt1993–1994
Carl L. Campbell1993–1994
Carolyn S. Chambers1989–1991
Cece Smith1992–1994
Charles Dickie Williamson1989–1989
Charles E. Weller1993–1994
Charles F. Seymour1989–1990
Charles I. Moyer1992–1994
Charles L. Seaman1991–1993
Charles S. McNeer1989–1991
Charles T. Doyle1989–1991
Charles W. Ekstrum1989–1989
Charles W. Nichols1994–1994
Charles W. Parry1989–1990
Chester A. Duke1989–1989
Clarence D. Mortenson1994–1994
Claude R. Hill, Jr.1989–1991
Claudine B. Malone1994–1994
Colleen D. Hernandez1994–1994
Constantinos I. Costalas1989–1990
Cordell W. Hull1989–1990
Cynthia A. Parker1993–1994
Cyrus R. Vance1989–1992
D. Paul Jones, Jr.1994–1994
Daniel E. Sweat, Jr.1994–1994
David A. Hamburg1994–1994
David A. Koch1994–1994
David A. Page1992–1994
David W. Fox1991–1994
David W. Huggins1990–1994
David W. Kemper II1989–1989
Delbert W. Johnson1989–1993
Dennis W. Johnson1993–1994
Don E. Adams1991–1993
Donald J. Kennedy1991–1994
Donald J. Schneider1993–1994
Douglas E. Olesen1989–1994
Douglas M. Lester1993–1994
Duane E. Dingmann1989–1994
Duane L. Burnham1992–1994
E. Kay Stepp1991–1994
E.B. Robinson, Jr.1989–1990
Earl R. St. John, Jr.1989–1993
Edward B. Brandon1993–1994
Edward D. Powers1989–1990
Edward H. Covell1989–1991
Edward H. Ladd1989–1994
Edwin A. Huston1989–1993
Ellen Victoria Futter1989–1993
Eugene M. Phillips1992–1994
Frank A. McPherson1990–1992
Frank J. Yaklich, Jr.1989–1994
Frank M. Mitchener, Jr.1989–1992
Frank Wobst1989–1992
Frederick W. Lyons, Jr.1989–1991
G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.1993–1994
Gary E. Burl1989–1989
Gary E. Wood1989–1992
Gary F. Simmerman1991–1993
Gary G. Michael1994–1994
Gary J. Chouest1989–1990
Gayle Maltby Earls1994–1994
George A. Butler1989–1989
George Nicholas Hatsopoulos1989–1989
Gerald A. Rauenhorst1990–1994
Gunnar E. Sarsten1989–1989
H. Bernard Lynch1990–1994
H. Edwin Trusheim1989–1992
Hanne Merriman1989–1990
Harold L. Gerhart, Jr.1989–1992
Henry G. Cisneros1991–1991
Henry G. River, Jr.1989–1994
Henry J. Faison1990–1994
Herbert L. Washington1993–1994
Herman Cain1992–1994
Hugh G. Robinson1989–1991
Hugh L. Hembree III1989–1990
Hugh M. Brown1992–1994
I.N. Rendall Harper, Jr.1993–1994
Ira Stepanian1993–1994
J. Kirby Fowler1989–1990
J. Richard Jones1993–1994
J. Thomas Holton1990–1994
J. William Johnson1994–1994
J.B. Cooper, Jr.1991–1994
Jack C. Smith1989–1990
James A. Hagen1992–1994
James A. Martin1993–1994
James Arthur Vohs1990–1994
James B. Williams1991–1994
James G. Lindley1991–1993
James H. Hearon, III1989–1991
James M. Mead1991–1994
Jane G. Pepper1989–1993
Janet McAfee Weakley1989–1993
Jean D. Kinsey1991–1994
Jeff Austin, Jr.1993–1993
Jerome H. Grossman1990–1994
Jerry B. Melby1994–1994
Joan Carter1994–1994
Joan T. Bok1990–1994
Joel B. Alvord1989–1989
Joel S. Harris1989–1990
John A. Georges1989–1992
John A. Rollwagen1989–1989
John C. Hampton1989–1989
John E. Flynn1991–1994
John F. McDonnell1993–1994
John F. McGillicuddy1989–1991
John F. McNair, III1989–1990
John F. Welch, Jr.1989–1990
John N. Nordstrom1989–1993
John R. Hodges1991–1993
John R. Miller1989–1992
John W. Gabbert1989–1991
Judith Manville Runstad1992–1994
L. Newton Thomas, Jr.1992–1994
Laban P. Jackson, Jr.1989–1992
Larry L. Prince1989–1991
Lawrence W. Menefee1994–1994
Leo Benatar1990–1994
Leo E. Linbeck, Jr.1989–1993
Leroy T. Canoles, Jr.1989–1989
Marcus Alexis1989–1990
Mary W. Walker1989–1989
Maurice R. Greenberg1989–1994
Max J. Naylor1989–1991
Michael W. Wright1989–1990
Milton Carroll1993–1994
Nicholas Riso1989–1991
Norman F.C. Kent1991–1991
Paul A. DelaCourt1991–1994
Paul J. Schierl1989–1992
Paul W. Green1989–1989
Peter A. Benoliel1989–1992
Peyton Yates1990–1994
R. Blair Hawkes1989–1990
Rand V. Araskog1991–1993
Ray U. Tanner1991–1993
Rayburn S. Dezember1989–1989
Richard D. Harrison1989–1989
Richard D. Wardell1989–1990
Richard E. Bell1993–1994
Richard G. Cline1990–1994
Richard L. Gelb1989–1991
Richard L. Mount1991–1994
Richard L. Taylor1989–1990
Richard M. Oster1989–1989
Richard Newell Cooper1989–1992
Robert D. Storey1989–1990
Robert E. Allen1992–1994
Robert E. Atkinson, Jr.1990–1994
Robert F. Erburu1989–1992
Robert G. Greer1989–1992
Robert G. Wilmers1993–1994
Robert H. Quenon1990–1994
Robert J. Day1989–1989
Robert L. Hollis1989–1991
Robert L. Pfluger1989–1990
Robert L. Virgil, Jr.1989–1989
Robert M Freeman1994–1994
Robert M. Healey1991–1994
Robert M. Silva1992–1994
Robert Y. Farrington1994–1994
Rodney W. Fouberg1990–1992
Roger L. Reisher1989–1993
Roger R. Hemminghaus1994–1994
Roger W. Schipke1989–1990
S. Dean Evans, Sr.1989–1990
Samuel A. McCullough1990–1992
Sandra B. Sanderson-Chesnut1992–1994
Sandra Feldman1994–1994
Saundra H. Gray1989–1991
Simpson Russell1992–1993
Stefan S. Anderson1992–1994
Stephen Brobeck1991–1994
Stephen L. Brown1994–1994
Stephen R. Levy1989–1993
Susanne V. Boxer1993–1994
Terrence Murray1990–1992
Terry K. Dunkle1994–1994
Thomas B. Cookerly1989–1989
Thomas C. Dorr1992–1994
Thomas Claiborne Frost1989–1993
Thomas E. Rodriguez1989–1993
Thomas F. McLarty III1989–1991
Thomas G. Labrecque1992–1994
Thomas M. Nies1994–1994
Veo Peoples, Jr.1994–1994
Verna K. Gibson1989–1993
Victor J. Riley, Jr.1990–1992
Victoria B. Jackson1992–1994
Virgil H. Moore1989–1991
W.D. Glover1994–1994
W.E. Ayres1990–1992
W.H. Swain1990–1994
Warren Bruce Rudman1993–1994
Warren K.K. Luke1990–1992
Warren R. Lee1991–1994
Wayne W. Allen1993–1994
Webb C. Hayes, IV1992–1994
William C. Steere, Jr.1993–1994
William E.B. Siart1989–1994
William H. Chadwick1989–1991
William H. May1989–1990
William L. McQuillan1993–1994
William L. Tooley1989–1994
William T. McConnell1989–1994
William W. Strausburg1992–1994

Lineage

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