J. Roger Guffey was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City covers the 10th District of the Federal Reserve, which includes Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and portions of western Missouri and northern New Mexico. The Bank has branches in Denver, Oklahoma City, and Omaha. The current president is...

 from 1976 to 1991.

Among Guffey's contributions was starting the Bank's Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Symposium which began as a agricultural symposium in 1978 but had became broader when it moved to Jackson Hole in 1982.

Guffey was born in Kingston, Missouri

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. He received a degree in business administration from the University of Missouri

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, worked in the intelligence services in Germany during World War II

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 and then graduated from the University of Missouri School of Law

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He was a partner at the Kansas City firm Fallon, Guffey and Jenkins becoming general counsel for the Kansas City Federal Reserve in 1968 and became president of the bank on March 1, 1976.

A theatre at the bank's 1 Memorial Drive

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building is named for him.