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George

William Miller (March

9, 1925 – March 17, 2006) was an Miller served as the 65th United

States Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter from August 6, 1979 to January 20, 1981.

He previously served as the 11th Chairman of the Federal

Reserve, where he began service on March 8, 1978. Miller came from

a corporate background, rather than from economics or finance, an unusual background for a Federal Reserve Chairman.

He is also the first person to have served both as Federal Reserve Chairman and

as Treasury Secretary. William Miller was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma in 1925. His family soon moved to Borger, the largest city in Hutchinson County, Texas,

where Miller spent his childhood and picked up the accent he would use into

adulthood. The nascent town experienced an oil boom up until the Great

Depression, during which it underwent extensive development under the Work father, previously a cab driver,

became the town's fire chief. After attending Amarillo College for the 1941–1942 school year, he

received an appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy,

and he graduated from there in 1945 with a B.S. degree in marine engineering. From

1945 to 1949, Miller served as a Coast Guard officer in Asia and on the U.S.

West Coast. During his time with the Coast Guard, he met Ariadna Rogojarsky, a

Russian emigre; they married in 1946. After leaving the Coast Guard, Miller

enrolled in the Boalt Hall School of

Law at the University of California,

Berkeley and graduated the top of the class of 1952 From

there he joined the law firm of Cravath, Swaine &

Moore in New York City.

In 1956, Miller joined the rapidly growing Rhode Inc as an assistant

secretary. He became a Vice President of the company in 1957, CFO in 1958, and

both the COO and company president in 1960. In the following years,

Textron's sales boomed across a range of consumer goods, industrial equipment,

and aerospace products. He became Textron's CEO in 1968 and retained that role

following his 1974 election as chairman of Textron's board of directors. He

held these posts until he joined to the Federal Reserve Board. Despite the

economy's weakening state during his time as CEO, Textron's sales grew 65% to

$2.8bn as the company operated 180 plants worldwide. This allowed the company's

sales and net income to keep pace with the decade's accelerating inflation

(albeit with a temporary dip in inflation-adjusted net income during the

1973-75 recession). Miller also forayed into politics and public

service. From 1963 to 1965, Miller was Chairman of the Industry Advisory

Council of the President's Committee on Equal Employment

Opportunity. In 1966 and 1967, he was a member of the National Council on the Humanities. Miller also served in the

think tank Club of Rome. In 1968, he aided Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign as chairman of a

Democratic-leaning business group. He also played a minor role in Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. After Carter's

election, Miller chaired the President's Committee on HIRE, which tried to

explore the issues surrounding veteran employment. At the time he

joined the Washington-based Federal

Reserve Board of Governors in 1978, Miller had been a Class B director

of the Federal Reserve Bank of

Boston for about eight years (Textron's headquarters is in the

Boston Fed's district), and he was on the board of several corporations. He was

also a member of the Business Council and the Business Roundtable, and he was

Chairman of both the Conference Board and

the National Alliance of Businessmen. He also served on two bilateral

international economic councils: the US-USSR Trade and Economic Council and the

Polish-US Economic Council.