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Retired chairman and chief executive officer, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Nationality: American.

Born: May 16, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Education: Yale University, BA, 1952; Harvard Law School, JD, 1955.

Family: Son of David Farrow and Emily Ogden Nelson; married Joan Clark Paddock, 1968.

Career: U.S. Navy, 1955–1959, naval officer; Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell, and Hippel, 1959–1967, associate, partner; State of Pennsylvania, 1967–1968, insurance...