Tom Hoenig | |
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President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | |
In office October 1, 1991 – October 1, 2011 | |
Preceded by | J. Roger Guffey |
Succeeded by | Esther George |
Personal details | |
Born | Thomas Michael Hoenig September 6, 1946 Fort Madison, Iowa, U.S. |
Political party | Independent |
Education | Benedictine College (BA) Iowa State University (MA, PhD) |
Thomas Michael Hoenig[1] (born September 6, 1946) is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center.[2] He became a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on April 16, 2012,[3] and served as vice chairman from November 30, 2012 to April 30, 2018.[4] From 1991 to 2011, he served as the eighth chief executive of the Tenth District Federal Reserve Bank, in Kansas City, United States. In 2010, he was serving as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, as one of five of the twelve Federal Reserve Bank presidents that sit on the Committee on a yearly rotating basis. He is known as an "anti-inflation hawk".[5]