Henry Wallich

Henry Christopher Wallich Council of a Economic Advisers under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Wallich also held a professorship of economics at Yale University. He was best known as an economic columnist for Newsweek magazine, from 1965 until he joined The Federal Reserve. For a period he wrote one week in three, with Milton Friedman as well as Paul Samuelson, with their 1967 columns earning the magazine a Gerald Loeb Special Award in 1968.

Personal life in addition to later years

In 1950 he married Mable Inness Brown, an economist from Floral Park, Long Island. They met while both were works at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. After failing health as well as an operation on a brain tumour, he died in 1988 at George Washington University Hospital aged 74. He was survived by his wife, Mable, mother Hildegard, and children, Christine Wallich, Anna Wallich and Paul Wallich.