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Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 – July 17, 1959) was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher. Through his public career, he served as the 5th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933.
He was an influential financier when President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 named him an adviser to the government on nonferrous metals. He later served as managing director of the War Finance Commission under Wilson and in various high-ranking positions under the next six presidents.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 – July 17, 1959) was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher. Through his public career, he served as the 5th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933.
A highly respected financier and government official, Meyer was responsible for all economic policy-making under president Hoover. In 1931, he sought to overcome the free gold problem by advocating for the creation of a Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Eugene Meyer may refer to: Eugene Meyer (financier) (1875–1959), American financier, public official, and Washington Post publisher. Marc Eugene Meyer (1842–1925), Franco-American businessman, father of Eugene Isaac Meyer.
He developed a firm reputation on Wall Street as a solid manager of investment funds and as an innovator. His firm pioneered the use of a research department – scientific investing – to perform detailed economic analyses of businesses.
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The subject files, 1929-1959, of investment banker, financier, public official, and newspaperman Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) relating to his tenure as fifth chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1930-1933, consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, copies of congressional legislation, printed material, and other papers (2,134 ...