Charles Sumner Hamlin

Charles Sumner Hamlin ( born August 30, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts, † April 25, 1938 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer and 1914-1916 First Chairman of the Federal Reserve System.

Life

After schooling Hamlin graduated in law at the Law School of Harvard University and graduated in 1886 from. After that he worked as a lawyer before he was first Assistant Secretary 1893-1897 in the U.S. Treasury in the administration of President Grover Cleveland. Hamlin, who was 1902-1903 Lecturer in Administrative Law at Harvard University, 1902 wrote his first application for the post of governor of Massachusetts, but was defeated by incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor John L. Bates.

He then resumed his career as a lawyer again, before he ran again in 1910 for the governorship of Massachusetts, and this time the Democratic Congressman Eugene Foss subject.

After 1912 he was Vice President of the Woodrow Wilson College Men's League and president of the Woodrow Wilson League in Massachusetts, he was in 1913 in the government of President Wilson once again Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

On August 10, 1914 Hamlin was after the creation of the Federal Reserve System whose first Chairman as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. He continued in this function for two years until his replacement by William Harding on August 10, 1916.

Publications

Hamlin also published several reference books on statistics and financial policy issues such as:

• Index Digest of Interstate Commerce Laws ( 1907)
• Index Digest of the Federal Reserve Bulletin ( 1921)