Bernanke's Life in Photos
Courtesy Bernanke Family
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The son of a pharmacist and a teacher, Ben Bernanke was the smartest kid in Dillon, South Carolina, a small farming town near the North Carolina border. By age 11, he had won the state spelling bee, placing 26th in the national contest, after failing to spell edelweiss.
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