- Chairman of the Board of the United States Federal Reserve System under United States presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987).
- He was nominated for the 2010 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services and contributions to Enterprise.
- He was nominated for the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his contributions to Enterprise.
- He was nominated for a 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame for Enterprise.
- He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Public Service category.
- He was nominated for the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Enterprise category.
- He was nominated for the 2018 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Public Service category.
- Economist, senior Federal Reserve official from 1975 to 1987 and author.
- He was hired at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1952, where he prepared reports for policymakers on the financial markets. He left to work at Chase Manhattan Bank, where he gained practical knowledge of banking. He joined the Kennedy administration in 1962 as a Treasury official, working on international financial matters.
- He attended Princeton University, where he played basketball (poorly, despite his 6'7" height) and excelled in economics courses. After graduating summa cum laude, he received a master's degree in public policy at Harvard and attended the London School of Economics.
- Son of Alma Louise (Klippel) and Paul Adolph Volcker, a municipal manager for the township of Teaneck, New Jersey. His paternal grandparents were German immigrants, and his maternal grandparents were German-Americans with deeper roots in the U.S.
- He was nominated in the 2019-2020 Class of New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Enterprise category.
- He was inducted into the 2021 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Enterprise category.
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