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William J. Mcdonough

1993–2003

Reserve Bank PresidentWikipedia

Born

Apr 21, 1934

Died

Jan 22, 2018

Meetings at the table

102

102/102 (0 absent)

Geography

president at New York (2) · where the Board comes from

In their time

Meetings by Chair

Policy rate

3% → 1.25%

−175 bp · Jul 1993 – Jun 2003

Seats held

Reserve Bank PresidentNew York1993–2003
Jul 19, 1993 – Jun 11, 2003

Before the Fed

Banker · First Chicago Corporation

Education

Bachelor's, Economics — College of the Holy Cross
Master's, Economics — Georgetown University

Terminal: Master's · economics

Served alongside (411)

Chairs · 3

Alan Greenspan1993–2003
Ben S. Bernanke2002–2003
Janet L. Yellen1994–1997

Governors · 15

Donald L. Kohn1993–2003
Alan S. Blinder1994–1996
Alice M. Rivlin1996–1999
David W. Mullins, Jr.1993–1994
Edward M. Gramlich1997–2003
Edward W. Kelley Jr.

Rate moves

14 hikes · 18 cuts

53 holds at their meetings

Dissents witnessed

28

at 24 of 81 meetings

Unanimous

70%

57 of 81 meetings

Recessions

1

2001

US presidents

2

Clinton · G.W. Bush

1993–2001

Elizabeth A. Duke1998–2000

John P. Laware1993–1995

Laurence H. Meyer1996–2002

Lawrence B. Lindsey1993–1997

Mark W. Olson2001–2003

Roger W. Ferguson Jr.1997–2003

Susan M. Phillips1993–1998

Susan S. Bies2001–2003

Wayne D. Angell1993–1994

Reserve Bank presidents · 17

Sandra Pianalto1993–2003
Anthony M. Santomero2000–2003
Cathy E. Minehan1993–2003
Edward G. Boehne1993–2000
Gary H. Stern1993–2003
J. Alfred Broaddus Jr.1993–2003
Jack Guynn1993–2003
Jerry L Jordan1993–2003
Michael H. Moskow1994–2003
Richard F. Syron1993–1994
Robert D. Mcteer Jr.1993–2003
Robert P. Forrestal1993–1995
Robert T. Parry1993–2003
Silas Keehn1993–1994
Thomas C. Melzer1993–1998
Thomas M. Hoenig1993–2003
William Poole1998–2003

Staff · 46

J. Virgil Mattingly, Jr.1993–2003
Michael J. Prell1993–1999
David J. Stockton2000–2003
Edwin M. Truman1993–1997
Vincent R. Reinhart2001–2003
John B. Davis, Jr.1993–1996
Ernest T. Patrikis1995–1997
Jennifer J. Johnson1998–2003
Christine M. Cumming2002–2003
Jamie B. Stewart, Jr.1999–2003
James H. Oltman1993–1994
Barry R. Snyder1998–2003
Brent L. Bowen1993–1997
Clyde H. Farnsworth, Jr.1993–1998
Colleen K. Strand1993–1999
David L. Shannon1993–1997
Dolores S. Smith1998–2003
Gordon R. G. Werkema2001–2003
Griffith L. Garwood1993–1997
H. Fay Peters2003–2003
Helen E. Holcomb1996–2003
Henry R. Czerwinski1993–1993
James M. Lyon2000–2003
James R. Bowen1993–1995
Jimmie R. Monhollon1993–1994
John F. Moore1996–2003
Karen H. Johnson1998–2003
Louise L. Roseman1999–2003
Marianne M. Emerson2002–2003
Patrick K. Barron1993–2003
Paul M. Connolly1994–2003
Richard C. Stevens1999–2001
Richard K. Rasdall, Jr.1994–2003
Richard Spillenkothen1993–2003
Robert Christy Moore2003–2003
Robert E. Frazier1993–2000
S. David Frost1993–1998
Stephen J. Clark1999–2000
Stephen R. Malphrus1993–2003
Tony J. Salvaggio1993–1995
W. Legrande Rives1996–2003
Walter A. Varvel1995–2003
William C. Conrad1993–2000
William H. Stone, Jr.1993–2003
William R. Jones2001–2002
William W. Wiles1993–1997

Reserve Bank directors · 330

James J. Howard1996–2001
Dan M. Fisher2001–2003
Michael A. Alexander1995–2000
William G. Smith, Jr.2001–2003
A. Charlene Sullivan1993–1996
A. Drue Jennings1995–1997
A. William Reynolds1993–1996
Alan R. Tubbs1999–2003
Albert B. Murry1996–1998
Albert J. Simone2000–2002
Alfred C. Leist1993–1996
Andre M. Rubenstein1993–1996
Ann M. Fudge1996–2002
Anne Marie Whittemore1993–1993
Arnold C. Schultz1993–1998
Arthur C. Martinez1996–2001
Barbara Harding1993–1993
Barbara L. Wilson2001–2003
Barry J. Fitzpatrick2003–2003
Bert Greenwalt1999–2003
Bick Weissenrieder2003–2003
Blenda J. Wilson2002–2003
Bradly W. Small2001–2003
Bruce A. Schriefer1998–2003
Bruce Parker1998–2000
Burton A. Dole, Jr.1993–1994
Candace Hunter Wiest2003–2003
Carl J. Schmitt1993–1995
Carl L. Campbell1993–1995
Cece Smith1993–1997
Charisse R. Lillie1996–2002
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.1999–2000
Charles E. Bunch2003–2003
Charles E. Weller1993–1995
Charles I. Moyer1993–1994
Charles L. Seaman1993–1993
Charles V. Wait2003–2003
Charles W. Mueller1999–2003
Charles W. Nichols1994–1999
Cheryl L. Krueger-Horn1998–2003
Clarence D. Mortenson1994–1996
Claudine B. Malone1994–1999
Colleen D. Hernandez1994–1999
Connie E. Evans2000–2003
Craig A. Ruppert1996–2001
Cynthia A. Parker1993–1998
D. Greg Heineman2001–2003
D. Paul Jones, Jr.1994–2000
Dale J. Emmel1996–1998
Dan Duane Angel1997–1999
Dan L. Dillingham2003–2003
Daniel E. Sweat, Jr.1994–1996
David A. Daberko1996–1998
David A. Hamburg1994–1994
David A. Koch1994–1999
David A. Page1993–1994
David B. Lee1997–1999
David H. Hoag1997–2002
David K.Y. Tang2003–2003
David L. Nichols1997–2002
David M. Ratcliffe2002–2003
David R. Jones1996–1998
David S. Barnard2002–2003
David S. Dahlmann1995–2000
David S. Outhouse2001–2003
David W. Fox1993–1996
David W. Huggins1993–1995
Delbert W. Johnson1993–1993
Dennis E. Barrett1997–2002
Dennis W. DiLazzero1995–1997
Dennis W. Johnson1993–1998
Don E. Adams1993–1993
Donald J. Kennedy1993–1997
Donald J. Schneider1993–1998
Doris M. Damm2001–2003
Douglas E. Olesen1993–1994
Douglas M. Lester1993–1998
Duane E. Dingmann1993–1994
Duane L. Burnham1993–1994
Dudley K. Montgomery1996–2001
E. Kay Stepp1993–1995
E. Lynn Caswell1997–2002
Earl R. St. John, Jr.1993–1993
Eddie Canterbury2002–2003
Edward B. Brandon1993–1995
Edward Dugger, III1995–2000
Edward H. Ladd1993–1994
Edwin A. Huston1993–1993
Edwin N. Clift1998–2000
Egbert L. J. Perry2002–2003
Ellen Victoria Futter1993–1993
Eugene M. Phillips1993–1996
Eugene R. McGrath1995–2000
Frank A. Potenziani1996–2001
Frank J. Yaklich, Jr.1993–1994
Frank Kaminski, Jr.2000–2001
Frank L. Sims2003–2003
Frank Moore2002–2003
Fred L. Green, III2000–2002
Frederick J. Mancheski1997–1997
G. Kenneth Perine1996–1999
G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.1993–1999
Garry L. Maddox2003–2003
Gary F. Simmerman1993–1993
Gary G. Michael1994–2000
Gayle Maltby Earls1994–1999
Gayle P.W. Jackson2000–2003
George A. Didden, III1996–1998
George M. Scalise2000–2003
George W. Hamlin, IV1997–2002
Gerald A. Rauenhorst1993–1995
Gerald M. Levin2001–2002
Gerry Boyd Cameron1995–1997
Glenn A. Schaeffer1998–2003
H. Bernard Lynch1993–1994
Hans Helmerich1997–2003
Harry Elwell, III1998–2000
Henry Bartell Zachry, Jr.1999–2002
Henry G. River, Jr.1993–1994
Henry J. Faison1993–1995
Herbert L. Washington1993–1995
Herman Cain1993–1995
Howard E. Cosgrove1996–2001
Howard L. McMillan, Jr.1997–1999
Hugh M. Brown1993–1997
I.N. Rendall Harper, Jr.1993–1998
Ira Stepanian1993–1994
Irwin Zazulia1999–2002
J. Carter Bacot1995–1997
J. Richard Jones1993–1999
J. Stephen Barger2003–2003
J. Thomas Holton1993–1995
J. Walter McDowell1997–1999
J. William Johnson1994–1996
J.B. Cooper, Jr.1993–1996
Jack B. Evans1998–2003
Jack McNally2001–2003
James A. Hagen1993–1994
James A. Martin1993–1999
James Arthur Vohs1993–1996
James B. Williams1993–1996
James E. Haden1998–2003
James F. Beall2002–2003
James G. Lindley1993–1993
James H. Keyes1999–2003
James J. Norton1998–2003
James M. Culberson, Jr.1999–2001
James M. Mead1993–1995
Jane C. Walsh1995–1997
Jane G. Pepper1993–1993
Janet McAfee Weakley1993–1993
Jay F. Hoeschler1999–2003
Jay T. Harris2003–2003
Jean D. Kinsey1993–1997
Jeff Austin, Jr.1993–1993
Jeffrey L. Gerhart1999–2003
Jeremiah J. Sheehan1997–2002
Jerome H. Grossman1993–1996
Jerry B. Melby1994–1996
Jerry I. Speyer2001–2003
Jill M. Considine2002–2003
Jo Marie Dancik1995–2001
Joan Carter1994–2000
Joan T. Bok1993–1995
Joe Edens2002–2003
John C. Whitehead1995–1999
John Dane III2000–2003
John E. Flynn1993–1996
John Edward Sexton2003–2003
John F. McDonnell1993–1998
John F. Wieland1997–2002
John N. Nordstrom1993–1993
John R. Cochran1999–2001
John R. Hodges1993–1993
John V. Rindlaub1998–2000
Joseph E. Gliessner, Jr.1997–2002
Juanita P. Baranco1997–2001
Judith Manville Runstad1993–1997
Judy Ley Allen1999–2003
Julie Spicer England1997–2003
Kathryn A. Ogren1995–2000
Kay Clevidence2002–2003
Kenneth R. Shoemaker2003–2003
Kenneth T. Murphy2000–2002
Kirk A. McLaughlin1995–2000
Krestine M. Corbin1995–2000
L. Newton Thomas, Jr.1993–1997
Larry W. Kinderman1996–1996
Lawrence K. Fish2002–2003
Lawrence W. Menefee1994–1996
Leo Benatar1993–1995
Leo E. Linbeck, Jr.1993–1993
Lester H. McKeever, Jr.1995–2000
Lewis F. Mallory, Jr.2002–2003
Linda Hall Whitman2000–2003
Loretta E. Lynch2003–2003
Lunsford W. Bridges2000–2003
Lynn M. Hoghaug1997–1999
Malcolm Gillis2000–2003
Maria Camila Leiva1995–2001
Marshall N. Carter1995–1998
Marta Tienda2003–2003
Matthew T. Doyle2001–2003
Maurice R. Greenberg1993–1995
Michele Tolela Myers1995–1997
Migdalia Rivera1997–1999
Miles D. White2002–2003
Milton Carroll1993–1996
Nelson C. Rising1998–2002
Orit Gadiesh2000–2003
P. Coleman Townsend, Jr.2002–2003
Patricia M. Patterson2000–2003
Paul A. DelaCourt1993–1996
Paul M. Ferguson2000–2000
Paula Lovell1998–2003
Paula Marshall-Chapman2000–2002
Peter G. Peterson1996–2003
Peyton Yates1993–1995
Philip L. McLaughlin1995–1997
Phillip R. Cox2000–2003
Rand V. Araskog1993–1993
Randy Peterson2003–2003
Ray L. Hunt1998–2003
Ray U. Tanner1993–1993
Rhonda Holman2000–2003
Richard C. Hartnack2001–2003
Richard C. White2001–2003
Richard E. Bell1993–1998
Richard G. Cline1993–1995
Richard G. Hickson2000–2003
Richard H. Bard2002–2003
Richard L. Carrion1999–1999
Richard L. Mount1993–1996
Richard W. Decker, Jr.2002–2003
Richard W. Evans, Jr.2003–2003
Rick L. Smalley2003–2003
Rob L. Wheeler1997–2002
Robert A. Funk2003–2003
Robert C. McNair1996–1998
Robert D. Burris1995–2000
Robert Dickson2003–2003
Robert E. Allen1993–1994
Robert E. Atkinson, Jr.1993–1995
Robert E. Chappell2000–2003
Robert G. Wilmers1993–1998
Robert H. Quenon1993–1995
Robert J. Darnall1997–2003
Robert J. Vanderslice2001–2003
Robert K. Kraft2003–2003
Robert L. Johnson1998–2003
Robert L. Strickland1996–1998
Robert M Freeman1994–1996
Robert M. Healey1993–1996
Robert M. Silva1993–1994
Robert R. Glauber1996–2001
Robert R. Yohanan1998–2003
Robert S. Attiyeh1997–2002
Robert W. Mahoney2000–2003
Robert Y. Farrington1994–1999
Roger L. Reisher1993–1993
Roger N. Berglund2000–2002
Roger R. Hemminghaus1994–2000
Ronald J. Naples2001–2003
Ronald N. Zwieg1998–2003
Ronay Menschel1998–2003
Rufus A. Fulton, Jr.1999–2001
Samuel O. Thier2002–2003
Samuel P. Baird1995–1997
Sandra B. Sanderson-Chesnut1993–1997
Sandra Feldman1994–1995
Sanford J. Weill2001–2003
Sheila D. Harris1999–2003
Sherwin Greenblatt2001–2003
Simpson Russell1993–1993
Stanley T. Skinner1996–1998
Stefan S. Anderson1993–1997
Stephen Brobeck1993–1996
Stephen L. Brown1994–1998
Stephen P. Wilson2001–2003
Stephen R. Levy1993–1993
Susan S. Elliot1996–2000
Susanne V. Boxer1993–1995
Suzanne E. Boas1998–2003
T. Joseph Semrod2000–2001
Tanny B. Crane2003–2003
Terrence Murray1999–2001
Terrence P. Dunn1998–2002
Terry K. Dunkle1994–1996
Theresa M. Stone2003–2003
Thomas C. Dorr1993–1997
Thomas Claiborne Frost1993–1993
Thomas E. Rodriguez1993–1993
Thomas G. Labrecque1993–1994
Thomas H. Jacobsen1999–2001
Thomas J. Mackell, Jr.2003–2003
Thomas M. Nies1994–1996
Thomas W. Jones1996–1997
Tiney M. McComb1997–2002
V. Larkin Martin2003–2003
Veo Peoples, Jr.1994–1999
Verna K. Gibson1993–1993
Verne G. Istock1997–2000
Victoria B. Jackson1993–1994
W. Henry Harmon2000–2003
W. James Farrell2001–2003
W.D. Glover1994–1999
W.H. Swain1993–1995
Walter E. Daller, Jr.2002–2003
Walter L. Metcalfe, Jr.2001–2003
Walter V. Shipley, II1998–2000
Warren Bruce Rudman1993–1994
Warren K.K. Luke1996–2001
Warren R. Lee1993–1996
Waymon L. Hickman1996–2001
Wayne R. Embry1999–2003
Wayne W. Allen1993–1995
Webb C. Hayes, IV1993–1994
Wesley S. Williams, Jr.1997–2003
Willard William LaJoie1999–2001
William A. Osborn2001–2003
William C. Brainard1995–2001
William C. Steere, Jr.1993–1996
William E.B. Siart1993–1994
William L. McQuillan1993–1998
William L. Tooley1993–1994
William Osgood Taylor1997–2002
William S. Pickerign1995–1997
William T. McConnell1993–1994
William W. Duncan, Jr.2001–2003
William W. Strausburg1993–1994

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