Carter Glass

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American politician United States representative United States senator human journalist newspaper publisher

Carter Glass was an influential American politician and newspaper publisher who served as a U.S. senator from Virginia and played a key role in shaping early 20th-century banking and financial regulation.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American politician → United States representative → United States senator → human → journalist → newspaper publisher →
appointedBy	Woodrow Wilson →
burialPlace	Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States →
chairpersonOf	House Committee on Banking and Currency →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1858-01-04 →
dateOfDeath	1946-05-28 →
employer	Lynchburg News → News and Advance (Lynchburg newspaper, predecessor titles) →
endTime	1918-12-06 (as U.S. Representative) → 1920-02-01 (as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) → 1946-05-28 (as U.S. Senator) →
familyName	Glass →
fullName	Carter Glass →
givenName	Carter →
ideology	conservative Democrat →
knownFor	advocacy for the creation of the Federal Reserve System → co-authoring the Glass–Steagall banking reforms → shaping early 20th-century U.S. banking and financial regulation →
memberOf	United States Senate Committee on Appropriations → United States Senate Committee on Finance →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Democratic Party (United States) →
notableWork	Federal Reserve Act → Glass–Steagall Act →
occupation	banking reformer → journalist → newspaper editor → newspaper publisher → politician →
owned	Lynchburg News →
participatedIn	drafting of the Banking Act of 1933 → drafting of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 →
placeOfBirth	Lynchburg, Virginia, United States →
placeOfDeath	Washington, D.C., United States →
positionHeld	United States Representative from Virginia → United States Secretary of the Treasury → United States Senator from Virginia → member of the Virginia State Senate →
religion	Presbyterianism →
residence	Lynchburg, Virginia, United States → Washington, D.C., United States →
startTime	1902-03-04 (as U.S. Representative) → 1918-12-16 (as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) → 1920-02-02 (as U.S. Senator) →
stateRepresented	Virginia →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Federal Reserve Act of 1913 → Glass–Owen Act → Glass–Steagall Act →	sponsor
Glass–Owen Act → Glass–Steagall Act →	namedAfter
Carter Glass →	fullName
77th United States Congress →	presidentProTempore
76th United States Congress →	senatePresidentProTempore