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Adolph C. Miller

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In 1914, Miller was appointed one of the original members of the Federal Reserve Board, which had been enacted late the previous year. The terms of the initial members were staggered, and Miller received the longest initial term, ten years. Miller was the sole economist on the Board during World
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Miller was born in San Francisco on January 7, 1866. After receiving his degree from the University of California, he studied abroad in Paris and Munich. Miller served as an instructor at
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He served 22 years in that capacity before retiring in 1936. He remained a significant benefactor to the University of California, and its
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War I, and he supported policies which would reduce spending by the public, principally through higher taxes.
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and then spent one year each as an assistant professor at his alma mater and
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was endowed with money left to the university and named for him.
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from 1914 to 1936. Miller was a notable benefactor of the
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before being hired as a full professor of finance at the
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Emily Hotaling Eig and Julie Mueller, Traceries (1989).
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American economist and government official (1866–1953)
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Federal Reserve Board
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John McKee
San Francisco
California
Washington, D.C.
Independent
University of California, Berkeley
BA
Harvard University
MA
Federal Reserve Board
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Cornell University
University of Chicago
Benjamin Wheeler
Haas School of Business
Franklin Knight Lane
Woodrow Wilson
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
Kalorama
Washington DC
Baltimore
Hall Pleasants Pennington

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