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 threadbased on a massive new database we built for new Centralverse interactive https://centralverse.org/FedWatcher/Chair
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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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