Adolph C. Miller

Adolph Caspar Miller (January 7, 1866 - February 11, 1953) was an American economist who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board from 1914 to 1936.

[citation needed] In 1902, Benjamin Wheeler, President of the University of California, persuaded Miller to return to Berkeley as Flood Professor of Finance and take charge of the College of Commerce, the predecessor of today's Haas School of Business.

[2] In 1914, Miller was appointed one of the original members of the Federal Reserve Board, which had been enacted late the previous year.

[3] Miller was the sole economist on the Board during World War I, and he supported policies which would reduce spending by the public, principally through higher taxes.

[1] His house in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC, designed in 1924 by Baltimore architect Hall Pleasants Pennington, still stands at 2230 S Street NW.