The case for Alexander Hamilton

Do the presidents of the regoinal Fed banks act as directors? Does the president appoint them?

The central board does all of the important regulatory duties that have national importance. The regional banks, for instance, don't have any control over the money supply.
 
The original National Bank (FBUS) was actually chartered so that a percentage of it's board was private sector, and a percentage civil service employees. It ran beautifully, and was not noted for waste or corruption. I don't know what the SBUS was like in comparison, but it was chartered by Madison, who was anti-Bank (but changed his mind after the War of 1812 out of panic for how difficult public financing was for the war, absent the FBUS), and it was rife with corruption and waste.

I don't think the Fed is modeled much after the FBUS, though...
 
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