List of Fed Chairs
Here is a list of the chairs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
The term of the appointment is four years. Chair might serve ensuring terms if reappointed by the President of the United States.
Below is the list along with the dates the position was held.
- William Gibbs McAdoo - ex officio chair (Dec 1913-August 1914)
- Charles Sumner Hamlin (August 1914-August 1916)
- William P.G. Harding (August 1916-August 1922)
- Daniel Richard Crissinger (May 1923-September 1927)
- Roy A. Young (October 1927-August 1930)
- Eugene Meyer (September 1930-May 1933)
- Eugene Robert Black (May 1933-August 1934)
- Marriner S. Eccles (November 1934-January 1948)
- Thomas B. McCabe (April 1948-March 1951)
- William McChensey Martin (April 1951-January 1970)
- Arthur F. Burns (February 1970-January 1978)
- G. William Miller (March 1978-August 1979)
- Paul Volcker (August 1979-August 1987)
- Alan Greenspan (August 1987-January 2006)
- Ben Bernanke (February 2006-January 2014)
- Janet Yellen (February 2014-February 2018)
- Jerome Powell (February 2018-Present)