Who was the Federal Reserve Chairman before Bernanke?

Question

Who was the Federal Reserve Chairman before Bernanke?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure it was Allan Greenspan who held the post for about 17 years.

Answer 2

FORMER FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN Was ALAN GREENSPAN .

Ben S. Bernanke was sworn in on February 1, 2006, as Chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Bernanke also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policymaking body. He was appointed as a member of the Board to a full 14-year term, which expires January 31, 2020, and to a four-year term as Chairman, which expires January 31, 2010.

Answer 3

alan greenspan:  in the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.  There is no safe store of value.  If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold...  The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.  Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom ed Ayn Rand New York Signet Books 1967 p101

Greenspan was appointed chairman of fed in 1987 and quickly played a different tune

Answer 4

Alan Greenspan