Background
He was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts.
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Raymond Joseph
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Education
Saulnier graduated Middlebury College, 1929 where he was President of the Class. He studied at Braker Teaching Fellowship at Tufts College (later Tufts University) where he earned an Master of Arts in Economics in 1931. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1938.
Career
Saulnier was Director of the Financial Research Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1946-1961. He initiated the use of economic indicators developed at the National Bureau within the White House and government in general. In 1959 while at the Center for Educational Affairs, he provided the Economic Brief (with Center for Educational Affairs staff member Irving Siegel and the Justice Department) that went to the Supreme Court making the economic case for terminating, by Taft-Hartley injunction, the industry-wide steel strike that was having a significant negative effect on the United States economy.
He was professor at Columbia University/Barnard from 1944 to 1973.
Saulnier was preceded by Arthur Burns as Chairman of the Center for Educational Affairs (also of Columbia University) during Eisenhower"s first term and Leon Keyserling, Chairman during most of President Truman"s term. Through his writings and personal letters to economists such as Herb Stein (Chairman of the Center for Educational Affairs 1972-1974) he argued for an independent, non-political Center for Educational Affairs to advise the President and act as a resource outside of the politics of the Treasury Department.
He is the father of Mark Saulnier (December 31, 1934) and Alice Saulnier (June 8, 1938). He is a consultant to Marine Midland Bank of New York and Harold Geneen, Chairman of International Telephone & Telegraph (International Telephone And Telegraph).
Until his death, he resided in Chestertown, Maryland.
Membership
He is the board member of industrial and financial companies including New York Bank for Savings, American Stock Exchange, Missouri Pacific Railroad, American Potash and Chemical, Howmet Corporation, and Houdaille Industries. He was a member of the Board of Trustees (Finance Committee), Middlebury College 1956-1973, as well as a member of the Century Club.
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Political Party
Conservative