Maximilian Bethune Wellborn (January 22, 1862, in Lewisville, Arkansas – November 28, 1957, in Anniston, Alabama) was the first chairman of the board and a governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
[2] After a protracted political struggle, the act creating the Federal Reserve System was finally signed into law late in 1913.
President Woodrow Wilson appointed Max Wellborn to be the first chairman of the Atlanta Federal Reserve bank.
Prior to his service with the Federal Reserve, he had served as a commissioner in Calhoun County, Alabama and had been a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1912.
He was a student of his heritage and presented many of his family papers to Auburn University, including those of naval hero Commodore John H. Dent, his great grandfather.