Eugene Meyer

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American financier, first president of the World Bank (1875-1959)

United States AcademicsLived 1875 to 1959 · aged 83

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Eugene Isaac Meyer was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher. He was the fifth chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933.

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The former Meyer Elementary School in Washington, D.C., which functions as a swing space for District of Columbia Public Schools being renovated

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SpouseAgnes E. Meyer

FatherMarc Eugene Meyer

MotherHarriet Newmark Meyer

ChildKatharine Graham

ChildFlorence Meyer

SiblingFlorence Meyer Blumenthal

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José Horacio Gómez52.9 Trevanian52.8

John Tate52.9

Judith Jarvis Thomson52.8

Martin Edward Hellman53.0

Hubert Dreyfus52.8

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Eugene Isaac Meyer was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher. He was the fifth chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. Meyer purchased The Washington Post in 1933, and was its publisher from 1933 to 1946, with the paper staying in his family throughout the rest of the 20th century. He was the first president of the World Bank Group from June to December 1946.

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