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The Federal Reserve Bank of
New York (New York Fed) is one of 12 regional reserve banks of
the Federal Reserve System, which is
the American central bank. It is
described as being the most important of the banks, due to it being
in the the world's center of finance and
serving as the Federal Open Market
Committee's operating arm. This is also due to its conducting
of open market operations and foreign exchange market
intervention.[1]
The former title for the chief executive officer of the New York
Fed was governor and was renamed to president due to the Banking Act of 1935.[2]
Akin to all other reserve bank presidents, the President of the New
York Fed is nominated by the Board of Directors of
the New York Fed and is approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.[1]
The Federal Reserve Act states that the president of a Federal
Reserve Bank is the chief executive officer of the
bank in question and has a term that ends the last day in February
in years ending in 1 or 6. Reserve Bank presidents must retire when
they reach the age of 65, nevertheless, if the Board of Governors
allows, a president who assumed his position after age 55 may serve
until they have served 10 years or reached age 70, whichever is
attained first.[3]
The areas of the bank involved in business report to both the
President and First Vice President of the New York Fed. They in
turn report to the Board of Directors of the New York Fed.[4]
The President of the New York Fed is a permanent member of the
Federal Open Market Committee, which is responsible for open market
operations.[5]
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has had ten presidents
since its inception, of which some have gone on to hold positions
in government. Benjamin Strong, Jr., who had been
the president of Bankers Trust
Company, became the first President of the New York Fed on
October 5, 1914.[6]
He said the bank at that point "consisted of little more than a
copy of the Federal Reserve Act," but it
consumed 100 million US dollars from 211 member banks during the
course of that day.[7]
United States President Jimmy Carter
appointed former New York Fed President Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979 and
US President Ronald
Reagan reappointed him in 1983.[8]
US President Barack
Obama later appointed him to be the first Chairman of the President's
Economic Recovery Advisory Board on February 6, 2009.[9]
President Obama also appointed former New York Fed President Timothy
Geithner to be the United States
Secretary of the Treasury and he was confirmed by the Senate on January 26, 2009.[10]
Key
| † |
Stepped down due to reaching retirement age |
| * |
Died in office |
Governors and Presidents
| # |
CEO |
Life span |
Term start |
Term end |
Ref |
|
Governors |
| 1 |
Benjamin Strong, Jr.* |
1872–1928 |
October 5, 1914 |
October 1928 |
[2][6] |
| 2 |
George
L. Harrison |
1887–1958 |
1928 |
— |
— |
|
Presidents |
| – |
George
L. Harrison |
1887–1958 |
— |
December 1940 |
[11] |
| 3 |
Allan
Sproul |
1896–1978 |
January 1941 |
June 1956 |
[12] |
| 4 |
Alfred
Hayes |
1910–1989 |
August 1, 1956 |
August 1, 1975 |
[13] |
| 5 |
Paul
Volcker |
1927– |
August 1, 1975 |
August 5, 1979 |
[14] |
| 6 |
Anthony M.
Solomon† |
1919–2008 |
April 1, 1980 |
December 31, 1984 |
[15] |
| 7 |
E.
Gerald Corrigan |
1941– |
January 1, 1985 |
July 19, 1993 |
[16] |
| 8 |
William J. McDonough |
1934– |
July 19, 1993 |
June 10, 2003 |
[17] |
| 9 |
Timothy
Geithner |
1961– |
November 17, 2003 |
January 26, 2009 |
[10] |
| 10 |
William
Dudley |
1953– |
January 27, 2009 |
incumbent |
[18][19] |
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