Albert Nickerson was the Chairman and C.E.O. of Mobil Oil, and chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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 from 1961 to 1966.

Nickerson graduated from Noble & Greenough School in 1929 and Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1933. He began working for Mobil in the year of his graduation from Harvard, and eventually rose to become the company's President in 1955, and then Chairman and Chief Executive from 1958 to 1969.

He served on the board of Rockefeller University

Rockefeller University

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 and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

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. He married his wife Elizabeth, in 1934, and had four children, Christine, Albert, Elizabeth and Victoria.