Anthony Morton Solomon (December 27, 1919 – January 15, 2008) was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs during the Carter administration, and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York between 1980 and 1984.
Solomon‘s affiliation with government service began with an appointment by President Franklin Roosevelt to be a consultant on economic affairs in Iran. When he was drafted into the Army, a letter from the President's office excused him. Under John F. Kennedy he headed an economic group scouting the Trust Territory of Micronesia in the early 1960s.[1]
Solomon served as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the Johnson administration between 1965 and 1969, and again as Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs from 1977 to 1980. During the Carter administration he helped organize the freezing of Iranian assets following Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[2]
He was appointed President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on January 21, 1980.[3]
^Schudel, M. (27 January 2008.) Anthony M. Solomon, 88; Adviser to 3 presidents on world economics. Washington Post.
^ abHevesi, Dennis (January 19, 2008). "Anthony Solomon, Finance Policy Maker, Is Dead at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-20. Anthony M. Solomon, a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an influential behind-the-scenes financial policy maker in three presidential administrations and at the World Bank, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. The cause was kidney failure, his son, Adam, said.
