George William Miller, born March 9, 1925, in Sapulpa, Okla., served as the 11th chairman of the Federal Reserve from March 8, 1978, to Aug. 6, 1979. He then served as the 65th secretary of the treasury under President Jimmy Carter from Aug. 6, 1979, to Jan. 20, 1981.
Miller graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1945 with a B.S. in marine engineering and served until 1949 as a Coast Guard officer in the Far East and on the west coast of the U.S. He received a law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1952, and joined the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York.
In 1956, Miller joined Textron, Inc. He became a vice president of the company in 1957 and president in 1960. In 1968 he became chief executive officer of Textron and in 1974 was elected chairman and chief executive officer, a post he held until he came to the Federal Reserve.
At the time he joined the Federal Reserve Board, Miller was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and of several corporations. He was also a member of the Business Council and the Business Roundtable and chairman of the Conference Board and of the National Alliance of Businessmen.
From 1963 to 1965, Miller was chairman of the Industry Advisory Council of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and in 1966 and 1967, he was a member of the National Council on the Humanities.
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