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Wood, Ralph Clinton, 1911-1994


  • [Ralph Clinton Wood (b. January 2, 1911, Pittsfield, Massachusetts-d. March 8, 1994, Fairfax, Virginia), was an economist. Wood spent most of his youth in Albany, New York. He attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1934 and a master's degree in economics in 1935. In 1936 Wood was hired on as an agent of the National Bureau of Economic Research for the Works Progress Administration's National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques. He studied at Columbia University from 1937 until 1940, when he took a position with the Department of Commerce in Washington D.C. Wood served with the United States Army in World War II. In 1948 he was hired as Assistant Chief of Finance with the Economic Cooperation Administration. This sent him to France to help administer the Marshall Plan aid program. Wood and his family spent seven years in Paris, where Wood also served as an alternate United States representative to the Managing Board of the European Payments Union, as well as Deputy Director of the Finance Division of the United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations (USRO). Wood returned to the United States in 1955 where he joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, first as Chief of the Central and Eastern European Section, Division of International Finance, and later, Chief of the European Section. In 1963 Wood took a leave of absence to study at the Brookings Institution as a Federal Executive Fellow. After returning to the Fed, Wood worked in areas of international economic cooperation, especially the Group of Ten nations and the International Monetary Fund, retiring in 1973. He married Dorothy Hays in 1936.]

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      • found: NUCMC data from Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum (West Branch, Iowa) for Ralph C. Wood papers, 1931-1992(Ralph C. Wood, 1911-1994; Ralph Clinton Wood; economist; monetary policy advisor on international banking and balance of payments for the Federal Reserve Board)
      • found: U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 via Ancestry.com, September 1, 2016(Ralph Clinton Wood; b. January 2, 1911, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; d. March 8, 1994)
      • found: OCLC, July 28, 2016(hdgs.: Wood, Ralph C. (Ralph Clinton), 1911-1994; usages: Ralph C. Wood)

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      • [Ralph Clinton Wood (b. January 2, 1911, Pittsfield, Massachusetts-d. March 8, 1994, Fairfax, Virginia), was an economist. Wood spent most of his youth in Albany, New York. He attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1934 and a master's degree in economics in 1935. In 1936 Wood was hired on as an agent of the National Bureau of Economic Research for the Works Progress Administration's National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques. He studied at Columbia University from 1937 until 1940, when he took a position with the Department of Commerce in Washington D.C. Wood served with the United States Army in World War II. In 1948 he was hired as Assistant Chief of Finance with the Economic Cooperation Administration. This sent him to France to help administer the Marshall Plan aid program. Wood and his family spent seven years in Paris, where Wood also served as an alternate United States representative to the Managing Board of the European Payments Union, as well as Deputy Director of the Finance Division of the United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations (USRO). Wood returned to the United States in 1955 where he joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, first as Chief of the Central and Eastern European Section, Division of International Finance, and later, Chief of the European Section. In 1963 Wood took a leave of absence to study at the Brookings Institution as a Federal Executive Fellow. After returning to the Fed, Wood worked in areas of international economic cooperation, especially the Group of Ten nations and the International Monetary Fund, retiring in 1973. He married Dorothy Hays in 1936.]

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