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Jerome Powell

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Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell (born February 4, 1953) is an American investment banker and lawyer who has been the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve, serving since 2018. A native of Washington, D.C., Powell graduated from Princeton University and from the Georgetown University Law Center. After working as an attorney for five years, he switched to investment banking in the mid-1980s and worked for several financial institutions, including as a partner of the Carlyle Group. In 1992, Powell briefly served as under secretary of the Treasury for domestic finance under President George H. W. Bush. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerome Powell is the 938th most popular politician (up from 7,205th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,336th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jerome Powell ranks 938 out of 19,576Before him are Antiochus III the Great, Carloman II, Enrico Dandolo, Constantine I of Greece, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy. After him are Sargon II, Isabella II of Spain, Halime Sultan, John III of Sweden, Baudouin of Belgium, and Thutmose II.

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Among people born in 1953, Jerome Powell ranks 7Before him are Xi Jinping, Richard Stallman, Brigitte Macron, Zico, Moon Jae-in, and Herta Müller. After him are Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Tony Blair, and Pierce Brosnan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerome Powell ranks 292 out of 20,380Before him are John Travolta (1954), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Barry Barish (1936), Tony Curtis (1925), Val Kilmer (1959), and William Boeing (1881). After him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Pete Conrad (1930), and Axl Rose (1962).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jerome Powell ranks 46Before him are Grover Cleveland (1837), James Madison (1751), Sitting Bull (1831), Geronimo (1829), John Quincy Adams (1767), and James Buchanan (1791). After him are Jerry Brown (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Steve Bannon (1953), Benjamin Harrison (1833), and Edith Roosevelt (1861).