Facts: - profession: economist - death place: washington , d.c. - president: harry johnson richard nixon truman dwight eisenhower john f. kennedy lyndon b. - birth name: william mcchesney martin , jr. - order: 9th federal reserve chairman of the board of governors of the - successor: arthur f. burns - party: democrat - death date: 27 july 1998 - predecessor: thomas b. mccabe - term end: february 1 , 1970 - term start: april 2 , 1951 - birth date: 17 december 1906 - nationality: american - image: william mcchesney martin jr.jpg - birth place: st. louis , missouri Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william mcchesney martin .
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william mcchesney martin , jr. -lrb- december 17 , 1906 -- july 27 , 1998 -rrb- was the ninth and longest-serving chairman of the united states federal reserve bank , serving from april 2 , 1951 to january 31 , 1970 under five presidents .martin , who once considered becoming a presbyterian minister , was described by a washington journalist as '' the happy puritan '' .