- Anthony M. Solomon
Anthony M. Solomon (
December 27 ,1919 –January 18 2008 ) was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs during the Carter administration, and President of theFederal Reserve Bank of New York between 1980 and 1985.Born in Arlington,
New Jersey , Solomon was educated at theUniversity of Chicago , receiving an economics BA in 1941. He later received his masters and doctorate degrees fromHarvard University in, respectively, 1948 and 1950.He served as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the Johnson administration between between 1965 and 1969, and again as Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs from 1977 to 1980.
He was appointed President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on
April 1 ,1980 .Solomon was a major donor to the
Peterson Institute in 2006. [cite web
url=http://www.petersoninstitute.org/publications/newsreleases/namechangepr.pdf
title=Institute for International Economics renamed in honour of founding chairman Peter G. Peterson
date=2006-10-24
publisher=The Peterson Institute|format=PDF]References
External links
* [http://www.ny.frb.org/aboutthefed/ASolomonbio.html Anthony M. Solomon] at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York website
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