Andrew Felton Brimmer Jr

Dr. Brimmer was the assistant secretary of commerce for economic affairs when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to the Fed board in 1966. After graduating from high school he went to Washington State, where one of his sisters lived. He joined the Army near the end of World War II and attained the rank of staff sergeant, remaining in the United States. Besides his daughter, Esther Brimmer, who is the assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the State Department, he is survived by his wife, Doris Scott Brimmer. Dr. Brimmer attended the University of Washington in Seattle on the G.I. Bill of Rights, earning an undergraduate degree in economics in 1950 and a master’s degree the next year. He then went to India before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, where he earned a doctorate.