{{Short description|American businessman (1863–1953)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Frederic Delano | image = Portrait of Frederic Adrian Delano.jpg | office = 1st Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve | president = Woodrow Wilson | term_start = August 10, 1914 | term_end = August 9, 1916 | predecessor = Position established | successor = Paul Warburg | office2 = Member of the Federal Reserve Board | president2 = Woodrow Wilson | term_start2 = August 10, 1914 | term_end2 = July 21, 1918 | predecessor2 = Position established | successor2 = Henry A. Moehlenpah | office3 = President of Monon Railroad | term_start3 = 1913 | term_end3 = 1914 | predecessor3 = Fairfax Harrison | successor3 = Harry Kurrie | birth_name = Frederic Adrian Delano II | birth_date = {{birth date|1863|9|10}} | birth_place = Hong Kong | death_date = {{death date and age|1953|3|28|1863|9|10}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | party = Democratic | spouse = | children = 5 | relatives = Warren Delano Jr. (Father)<br>Sara Ann Delano (Sister)<br>Warren Delano IV (Brother)<br>Franklin D. Roosevelt (Nephew) | education = Harvard University (BA) | caption = Delano in 1914 }} '''Frederic Adrian Delano II''' (September 10, 1863 – March 28, 1953) was an American railroad president<ref name="fdrlibrary">{{cite web |title=Roosevelt Genealogy |url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/resources/genealogy.html |website=www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu |publisher=Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum |accessdate=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301034423/http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/resources/genealogy.html |archive-date=1 March 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> who served as the first vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1914 to 1916. After his term as vice chairman, Delano continued to serve as a member of the Federal Reserve Board until 1918.
==Early life== thumb|left|125px|At Harvard, c. 1885
Delano was born in Hong Kong on September 10, 1863.<ref name="FADObit1953"/><ref name="fdrlibrary"/> He was a member of the Delano family as a son of Warren Delano Jr. and Catherine Robbins Lyman. He was a brother of Warren Delano IV and Sara Ann Delano, and uncle of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.<ref name="FADObit1953"/>
Like his older brother Warren, he graduated from Harvard University in 1885.<ref name="FADObit1953">{{cite news |title=Frederic A. Delano is Dead in Capital; Uncle of Late President Ran Railroads, Had Long Career as Planner of Cities |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/29/93401783.pdf |accessdate=26 February 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=94 |date=March 29, 1953 |language=en |url-access=subscription}}</ref> {{Clear left}}
==Career== After his graduation from Harvard, Delano was employed by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad in various capacities, rising from the position of civil engineer to be general manager at Chicago. For a time he was consulting engineer to the United States War Department in respect to the railroads of the Philippine Islands. In 1905, he became president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, of the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and of the Wabash Railroad. Delano was appointed one of the receivers for the Wabash in 1911, and in 1913, he was elected president of the Monon Railroad (succeeding Fairfax Harrison<ref name="MononPres">{{cite web| url=http://www.monon.org/history2.html| title=Presidents, Receivers and Trustees| author=Monon Railroad Historical and Technical Society| year=2004–2006| accessdate=November 22, 2013| archive-date=July 19, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719024413/http://www.monon.org/history2.html| url-status=dead}}</ref>). He was vice president of the American Unitarian Association in 1907.
His addresses were published under the titles ''Questions of the Hour'' (1911) and ''Are Our Railroads Fairly Treated?'' (1913). He was also the chairman of the influential National Capital Park and Planning Commission and helped approve and oversee the building of the Pentagon.<ref>{{NIE}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301296.html |title=How the Pentagon Got Its Shape |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=26 May 2007}}</ref> He held an informal role as an advisor during his nephew's presidency, particularly on issues of land conservation and regional planning.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brinkley|first=Douglas|title=Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America|url=https://archive.org/details/rightfulheritage0000brin|url-access=registration|year=2016|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-208923-6|pages=193, 213}}</ref>
==Legacy== His philanthropic work through the Commercial Club of Chicago, which has been said to have strongly impacted his nephew's presidential policies. Delano was Chairman of the Committee on the Regional Plan for New York and Its Environs, which released the regional plan for New York on May 27, 1929.<ref name="CommissionGutheim2006">{{cite book|author1=United States. National Capital Planning Commission|author2=Frederick Gutheim|author3=Antoinette J. Lee|title=Worthy of the Nation: Washington, DC, from L'Enfant to the National Capital Planning Commission|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vz8xV7NVw-8C&pg=PA170|accessdate=27 July 2013|date=15 November 2006|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8328-6|pages=170–}}</ref>
He was also a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago which affected the development of Chicago in the 19th and 20th centuries. Delano was the first vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve and the National Resources Planning Board.
His house on 2244 S Street NW in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC, designed by Waddy Butler Wood in 1924, survives as the Residence of the Irish Ambassador.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District|date=1989|url={{NRHP url|id=89001743}}|author=Emily Hotaling Eig and Julie Mueller, Traceries}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1888, Frederic was married to Matilda Anne Peasley (1867–1953). Together, they were the parents of five children, all daughters, including:<ref name="fdrlibrary"/>
* Catherine Lyman Delano (1889–1951),<ref name="hrvh">{{cite web |title=Portrait of Catherine Lyman Delano :: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library |url=https://www.hrvh.org/cdm/ref/collection/fdr/id/116 |website=www.hrvh.org |accessdate=18 July 2018}}</ref> who married Alexander Galt Grant. * Louise Delano (1891–1923), who married Sherwood Cheney (1873–1949), Commandant of the U.S. Army Engineer School. * Laura Delano (1893–1978), who married James Lawrence Houghteling (1883–1962). His sister Josephine Houghteling was married to financier Frank Gray Griswold.<ref name="1907Announce">{{cite news |title=Roosevelt Will Visit Newport; President and Wife Expected to Be the Guests of Commodore and Mrs. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Canfield Remarries; Wedded to Frank Gray Griswold in London -- Ambassador Reid Present at the Ceremony. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123463173/roosevelt-will-visit-newport/ |accessdate=2023-04-24 |newspaper=The New York Times |place=Newport |page=7 |date=1907-07-29 |publication-date=July 30, 1907 |language=en |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="1907Wedding">{{cite news |title=Griswold – Canfield. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123463319/griswold-canfield/ |accessdate=2023-04-24 |newspaper=The New York Times |place=London |date=1907-07-29 |publication-date=July 30, 1907 |language=en |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * Matilda Delano (1899–1911), who died young. * Alice Delano (1903–1904), who died young.
Delano died in Newburgh, New York on March 28, 1953.<ref name="FADObit1953"/>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *[https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/455 Statements and Speeches of Frederic A. Delano] *[https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/author/534 Collection of various works and letters written by Adrian Delano]
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