Eugene Meyer

Meyer chaired the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933, steering the nation's central bank through the depths of the Depression, then bought The Washington Post out of bankruptcy in 1933 and spent thirteen years rebuilding it into a serious paper his family would keep for the rest of the century. He capped his career by becoming the first president of the World Bank in 1946. His daughter, Katharine Graham, later ran the Post through Watergate.