Background
Burgess, Warren Randolph was born on May 7, 1889 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Isaac Bronson and Ellen (Wilbur) Burgess.
Burgess, Warren Randolph was born on May 7, 1889 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Isaac Bronson and Ellen (Wilbur) Burgess.
Bachelor of Arts, Brown U., 1912, Doctor of Laws 1937. Doctor of Philosophy. Columbia University, 1920.
Honorary Doctor of Laws, U. Rochester, 1948, Bowdoin College, 1959, University of California, 1962.
July 1953); married second, Helen Hamilton Woods, March 5, 1955. Children—Leonard Randolph, Julian Ayres. With Federal Reserve Bank, New York City, 1920-1938, deputy governor, 1930-1936, vice president, 1936-1938.
Vice chairman National City Bank of New York 1938-1948, chairman of the executive committee, 1948-1952. Chairman of the Board City Bank Farmers Trust Company. Director Discount Corporation, International Banking Corporation, United Pacific Railroad Royal-Liverpool Group Insurance Companies in the United States.
Deputy to Secretary Treasury, 1953-1954, undersecretary of Treasury, 1955-1957. United States permanent representative on North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1957-1961. Regent professor of University California at Berkeley, 1962.
Served as major, assistant acting chief of statistics branch General Staff World War I. Fellow Brown U. Trustee Robert College Teachers College, (Columbia). Chairman, New York State War Finance Committee, 1943-1944.
President, Per Jacobsson Foundation. Fellow American Statistical Association (president 1937), Academy Political Science (trustee, president 1939), American History assosiation, New York State Bankers Association (president 1940-1941, Reserve City Bankers Association (president 1952), American Bankers Association (chairman economics policy Commission, 1940-1944, president, 1944-1945, Chairman of Commission public debt policy, 1946-1947). Member International Chamber of Commerce (chairman monetary committee 1946-1947), Atlantic Treaty Association (chairman 1961-1963, vice chairman since 1963), Atlantic Council United States (chairman 1971), American Economics Association, American Philosophical Society, Foreign Policy Association (director), Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa.
Clubs: Metropolitan (Washington).
Married May Ayres, May 17, 1917 (deceased.; married second, Helen Hamilton Woods, March 5, 1955. Children: Leonard Randolph, Julian Ayres.