<Table> <Tr> <Th> No </Th> <Th> Name ( chair ) ( birth -- death ) </Th> <Th> Photo </Th> <Th colspan="2"> Term of office </Th> <Th> Appointed by ( term ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Start of term </Th> <Th> End of term </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Charles Sumner Hamlin ( 1861 -- 1938 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> August 10 , 1914 </Td> <Td> August 10 , 1916 </Td> <Th> Woodrow Wilson ( 1913 -- 1921 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> William P.G. Harding ( 1864 -- 1930 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> August 10 , 1916 </Td> <Td> August 9 , 1922 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Daniel R. Crissinger ( 1860 -- 1942 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> May 1 , 1923 </Td> <Td> September 15 , 1927 </Td> <Th> Warren G. Harding ( 1921 -- 1923 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Roy A. Young ( 1882 -- 1960 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> October 4 , 1927 </Td> <Td> August 31 , 1930 </Td> <Th> Calvin Coolidge ( 1923 -- 1929 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 5 </Td> <Td> Eugene Meyer ( 1875 -- 1959 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> September 16 , 1930 </Td> <Td> May 10 , 1933 </Td> <Th> Herbert Hoover ( 1929 -- 1933 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> Eugene Robert Black ( 1873 -- 1934 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> May 19 , 1933 </Td> <Td> August 15 , 1934 </Td> <Th> Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1933 -- 1945 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> Marriner S. Eccles ( 1890 -- 1977 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> November 15 , 1934 </Td> <Td> February 3 , 1948 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> Thomas B. McCabe ( 1893 -- 1982 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> April 15 , 1948 </Td> <Td> April 2 , 1951 </Td> <Th> Harry S. Truman ( 1945 -- 1953 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> William M. Martin ( 1906 -- 1998 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> April 2 , 1951 </Td> <Td> February 1 , 1970 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td> Arthur F. Burns ( 1904 -- 1987 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> February 1 , 1970 </Td> <Td> January 31 , 1978 </Td> <Th> Richard Nixon ( 1969 -- 1974 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 11 </Td> <Td> G. William Miller ( 1925 -- 2006 ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> March 8 , 1978 </Td> <Td> August 6 , 1979 </Td> <Th> Jimmy Carter ( 1977 -- 1981 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> Paul Volcker ( 1927 -- ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> August 6 , 1979 </Td> <Td> August 11 , 1987 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 13 </Td> <Td> Alan Greenspan ( 1926 -- ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> August 11 , 1987 </Td> <Td> January 31 , 2006 </Td> <Th> Ronald Reagan ( 1981 -- 1989 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 14 </Td> <Td> Ben Bernanke ( 1953 -- ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> February 1 , 2006 </Td> <Td> January 31 , 2014 </Td> <Th> George W. Bush ( 2001 -- 2009 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 15 </Td> <Td> Janet Yellen ( 1946 -- ) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> February 1 , 2014 </Td> <Td> Incumbent </Td> <Th> Barack Obama ( 2009 -- 2017 ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 16 </Td> <Td> Jerome Powell <P> ( 1953 -- ) </P> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> <Td> Donald Trump <P> </P> <P> ( 2017 -- ) </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table>
who is the current chair of the u.s. central bank and on what date did this person take office
Janet Yellen February 1 , 2014