Glass, Carter, 1858-1946

LC control no.	n 82098418
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Glass, Carter, 1858-1946 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Located	Virginia
Birth date	1858-01-04
Death date	1946-05-28
Field of activity	Banking law Financial institutions--Law and legislation
Profession or occupation	Politicians Newspaper editors
Found in	U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Changes in the banking and currency systems of the United States, 1913. Federal Reserve history website, August 9, 2021: people (Carter Glass; ex officio Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 1918-1920; born: January 4, 1858 in Lynchburg, Virginia; died: May 28, 1946; a Virginia state senator (1899-1903), an eight-term US representative (1902-1918), the U.S. Treasury secretary (1918-1920), and a four-term U.S. senator (1920-1946); Glass was married for fifty-four years to Aurelia Caldwell; they had four children; widowed in 1937, Glass married his second wife, Mary Scott, in 1940; along with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, Glass' most notable achievements include work toward the passage of the Banking Act of 1932, the Banking Act of 1933 (commonly called the Glass-Steagall Act), and the Banking Act of 1935; much of Glass' early career was spent in the newspaper industry, where he worked his way up from reporter to editor, to publisher and finally, owner of the Lynchburg Daily News and the Daily Republican) Fink, Matthew P. The unlikely reformer: Carter Glass and financial regulation, [2019]: page xiv (... active in Virginia politics with his crowning racist achievement being provisions in the state's new constitution depriving most blacks of the right to vote)
Associated language	eng