Warren Randolph Burgess

Warren Randolph Burgess (May 7, 1889 – September 16, 1978) was an American banker and diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1957 to 1961. Early life Burgess was born in Newport, Rhode Island (where his father was teaching at the Rogers High School) and grew up in the Chicago, Illinois, area. He was the son of Isaac Bronson Burgess, a Philips Exeter Academy and Brown University graduate who was a teacher, and Ellen (née Wilber) Burgess, an Abbot Academy graduate. His elder brother was Robert Wilbur Burgess (b. 1887), who served as Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1953 to 1961. Burgess attended Brown University and joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He did graduate work at McGill University in Montreal and earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1920. His dissertation at Columbia was entitled "Trends of School Costs." Career He became a prominent banker in New York City. In 1920, as a statistician, he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and remained with the bank for 19 years until he resigned in 1938 as vice president in charge of the Banks government security operation. In 1927, he published "The Reserve Banks and the Money Markets." In 1938, he joined National City Bank of New York (now known as Citibank) becoming vice chairman of the board of directors; later becoming chairman of the Bank's executive committee.