Frederick Albert Cleveland

Frederick Albert Cleveland (17 March 1865, Sterling, Illinois – 1946) was a United States economist.

He studied for the bar, but gave up practice in 1896 and thereafter gave his entire attention to economics, pursuing special studies in economics first at the University of Chicago and then at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

He served as accounting expert on several commissions, including that on the finances of New York City (1905) and President Taft's commission on economy and efficiency (1911) which recommended a national budget.

He was appointed director of the Bureau of Municipal Research in 1907.

In 1919 he joined the faculty of Boston University as professor of U.S. citizenship.