Beryl Wayne Sprinkel (November 20, 1923 – August 22, 2009) was a Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs in the US Treasury from January 1981 to April 1985, and member of the
Executive Office of the US President and
chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) between April 4, 1985 and January 21, 1989,
during the
Reagan administration
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following a landslide victory over ...
. Prior to government service, Dr. Sprinkel worked at the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago from 1952 to 1981, rising to the position of executive vice president.
Raised on a farm near
Richmond, Missouri
Richmond is a city in Ray County, Missouri, and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 6,013 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Ray County.
History
Richmond was platted in 1828. The comm ...
, Sprinkel was a member of the 2nd Armored Division, which led the attack that penetrated and defeated the German offensive near
Celles, Belgium, in the
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted from 16 December 1944 to 28 January 1945, towards the end of the war in ...
during World War II.
After the war he earned a degree in economics from the University of Missouri and, later, an MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago he was one of a circle of economists who was heavily influenced by the monetarist ideas of
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the ...
, who later won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Death
Sprinkel died on August 22, 2009, aged 85, from
Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome in a nursing and rehabilitation center in
Chicago
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He was survived by his wife, Lory, a son, two stepchildren and five grandchildren.
References
External links
United States Treasury website*
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1923 births
2009 deaths
American bankers
United States Army personnel of World War II
Neurological disease deaths in Illinois
People from Richmond, Missouri
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni
University of Missouri alumni
Economists from Missouri
20th-century American economists
Chairs of the United States Council of Economic Advisers
Member of the Mont Pelerin Society