Thread by @KalebNygaard

The @federalreserve Chair has been called the 2nd most powerful position in the world. How much do you know about the people that have sat in the chair?

Fed History thread🎉based on a massive new database we built for new Centralverse interactive centralverse.org/FedWatcher/Cha…
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To start, let me introduce you to the ten Chairs of the Federal Reserve. [2/19]

This is where life for each of the Fed Chairs began. [3/19]

Here are the Fed Chair birthdays. [4/19]

Here’s how old they were when they became Fed Chair (in blue) and how long they served as Fed Chair (in red). [5/19]

One of my favorite questions in our database - When the Chair left, did they wish they had had more time? [6/19]

This is an educated guess on the family wealth of the Chair at birth and then at death or current. [7/19]

How many children do the Fed Chairs have? [8/19]

What did the Fed Chairs study in undergrad? [9/19]

What did the Fed Chairs study in grad school? [10/19]

Did any of the Fed Chairs serve in the military? [11/19]

How much of their career did Fed Chairs spend in the public vs private sector? [12/19]

How much of their career did the Fed Chairs spend in academia? [13/19]

What books have the Fed Chairs written? [14/19]

The President of the United States appoints the Fed Chairs. Here’s a snapshot of which President appointed which Fed Chair. [15/19]

For those that have passed, here’s where the Fed Chairs died. [16/19]

Some fun things have been named after the Fed Chairs. [17/19]

Footnotes:
(a) w/200+ biographical data points per Chair, the above charts are just a sample of what’s available on the interactive
(b) I’ve started with the 10 Chairs since Eccles because that’s when the position became... [18/19]

Footnotes:
...powerful like we know it today (eventually I’ll do this for all Governors/RBPres from 1914)
(c) Data fully downloadable
(d) Data came from many places, but special shoutout to the wonderful folks over @fedhistory
(e) All errors are my own
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