Abram F. Myers

Abram F. Myers (1889 – after July 1960) was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from December 1, 1928 to January 15, 1929,[1] and thereafter general counsel and board chairman of the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors (ASAMPE) until July 1960.[2]

Born in Fairfield, Iowa,[3] Myers joined the United States Department of Justice in a sub-clerical position,[3] and received a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1912.[4] He eventually became a senior attorney on the department before receiving a recess appointment to the FTC by President Calvin Coolidge in July 1926.[3] Myers served until 1929, chairing the commission in his final year, when he resigned to serve in his dual roles with ASAMPE,[5][6] where he was sometimes regarded as "one of the film industry's controversial figures", holding those positions from 1929 until his resignation in July 1960.[2] In 1943, Abrams wrote a review of the 1943 film Deerslayer for the publication Harrison's Reports; as the film was produced by the publisher of this periodical, P. S. Harrison, this was their first review acknowledged not to have been written by Harrison.[7]