Charles Sumner Hamlin

Charles Sumner Hamlin
1st Chairman of the Federal Reserve
In office
August 10, 1914 – August 9, 1916
PresidentWoodrow Wilson
DeputyFrederic Adrian Delano
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byWilliam P. G. Harding
Member of the Federal Reserve Board
In office
August 10, 1914 – February 3, 1936
PresidentWoodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byRalph Morrison
Personal details
Born(1861-08-30)August 30, 1861
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedApril 24, 1938(1938-04-24) (aged 76)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Huybertje Pruyn
(m. 1898)
EducationHarvard University (BA, MA)
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Charles Sumner Hamlin (August 30, 1861 – April 24, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1914 to 1916. He previously served as the United States assistant secretary of the treasury from 1893 to 1897, and again from 1913 until 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson nominated him as one of the original members of the Federal Reserve Board. After his term as chairman, Hamlin continued to serve on the Board through 1936.[1]

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