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Emmett J. Rice
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Emmett John Rice was a former governor of the Federal Reserve System, a Cornell University economics professor, expert in the monetary systems of developing countries and the father of the current Ambassador to the United Nations in the Cabinet of President… Read More
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Letter: Good Citizens Reflect Good Community The ColumbianGoogle News - Jun 07, 2011
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Banking Expert Nominated To Be Fed Vice ChairmanNYTimes - Aug 07, 1999
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Fed Nominee ConfirmedNYTimes - May 22, 1987
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Monetary Policy Stayed Steady In Mid DecemberNYTimes - Feb 14, 1987
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1919
Birth
Born in 1919.
TWENTIES
1941
22 Years Old
Rice studied at the City College of New York, receiving a B.B.A. in 1941 and an M.B.A. in 1942 from City College of New York.
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THIRTIES
1950
31 Years Old
Rice was a research assistant in economics at Berkeley from 1950 to 1951 and was then a teaching assistant in economics in 1953 and 1954.
1952
33 Years Old
In between, he spent 1952 as a research associate at the Reserve Bank of India as a Fulbright Fellow.
1954
35 Years Old
From 1954 to 1960, Rice was an assistant professor of economics at Cornell University.
FORTIES
1960
41 Years Old
From 1960 to 1962, he took leave from Cornell to work as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and he then went on to be an adviser to the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos in 1963 and 1964.
1964
45 Years Old
From 1964 to 1966, Rice was Deputy Director, then Acting Director, of the Treasury Department's Office of Developing Nations.
1966
47 Years Old
From 1966 to 1970, he was U.S. Alternate Executive Director for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the International Development Association, and the International Finance Corporation.
FIFTIES
1970
51 Years Old
In 1970, Rice took leave from the U.S. Treasury department to be executive director of the Mayor's Economic Development Committee for Washington, D.C..
1972
53 Years Old
In 1972 he left public service to assume the position of senior vice president of the National Bank of Washington.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1979
60 Years Old
Rice was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.
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1986
67 Years Old
After leaving the Federal Reserve in 1986, Rice served on corporate boards and consulted.
2011
92 Years Old
Rice died at of congestive heart failure on March 10, 2011 at his home in Camas, Washington.
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