Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American
newspaper publisher
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and
Democratic politician from
Lynchburg,
Virginia
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. He represented Virginia in both houses of
Congress
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and served as the
United States Secretary of the Treasury
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under President
Woodrow Wilson
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. He played a major role in the establishment of the U.S.
financial regulatory system, helping to establish the
Federal Reserve System
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and the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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.
After working as a newspaper editor and publisher, Glass won election to the
Senate of Virginia in 1899. He was a delegate to the
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1902
The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1902 was an assembly of delegates elected by the voters to write the fundamental law of Virginia. The 1902 Constitution severely restricting suffrage among blacks and whites was proclaimed without submittin ...
, where he was an influential advocate for
segregationist
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policies. Historian J. Douglas Smith described him as “the architect of disenfranchisement in the Old Dominion.” He also promoted
progressive fiscal and regulatory reform but these contributions were often superficial since Glass generally opposed the most reformist aspects of federal legislation and was a New Deal critic. Glass won election to the
United States House of Representatives
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in 1902 and became Chairman of the
House Committee on Banking and Currency in 1913. Working with President Wilson, he passed the
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
The Pani ...
, which established a
central bank
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and oversees their commercial banking system. In contrast to a commercial bank, a central ba ...
ing system for the United States. Glass served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1918 until 1920, when he accepted an appointment to represent Virginia in the
United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
. Glass was a favorite son candidate for the presidential nomination at the
1920 Democratic National Convention.
Glass served in the Senate from 1920 until his death in 1946, becoming Chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee
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The Senate Appropriations Committee is the largest committ ...
in 1933. He also served as
president pro tempore of the Senate from 1941 to 1945. He co-sponsored the
1933 Banking Act, also known as the Glass–Steagall Act, which created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and enforced the separation of
investment banking
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firms and
commercial bank
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It can also refer to a bank, or a division of a large bank, which deals with co ...
s. An ardent supporter of
states' rights
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, Glass opposed much of the
New Deal
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and clashed with President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
over the control of federal appointments in Virginia.
Youth and education
Carter Glass was born on January 4, 1858, in
Lynchburg, Virginia
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, the last child born to Robert Henry Glass and his first wife, the former Augusta Elizabeth Christian. His mother died on January 15, 1860, when Carter was only two years old, so his sister Nannie, ten years older (and Elizabeth's only daughter), became his surrogate mother. Carter, a slight boy, got his nickname, "Pluck", for his pugnacious willingness to stand up to bullies.
His father,
Robert Henry Glass, was Lynchburg's postmaster beginning in 1853, and in 1858 bought the ''Lynchburg Daily Republican'' newspaper (where he had worked since 1846). The city's other newspaper was the ''Lynchburg Daily Virginian'', then published by Joseph Button, who on June 23, 1860, (while R. H. Glass was out of town) died in a duel with Glass's editor at the time, George W. Hardwicke, over accusations that Glass used his postal office to disadvantage the rival paper.
When the
American Civil War
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(1861–1865) broke out, Lynchburg was pro-Union but also pro-slavery, since its economy depended on the manufacture of tobacco as well as slave-trading and the new railroads. R. H. Glass volunteered and joined the Virginia forces in 1861, and then joined the
Confederate Army, where he became a major on the staff of Brigadier General
John B. Floyd
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Early family life
John Buchan ...
, a former
Governor of Virginia
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Oath of office
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. Major Glass ultimately remarried and had seven more children, including
Meta Glass
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(president of
Sweet Briar College) and Edward Christian Glass (Lynchburg's school superintendent for five decades).
In poverty-stricken Virginia during the post-War period, Glass received only a basic education at a private school run by one-legged former Confederate Henry L. Daviess. However, his father kept an extensive library. He became an apprentice printer to his father (and Hardwicke) when he was 13 years old, and continued his education through reading
Plato
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,
Edmund Burke
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and
William Shakespeare
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, among others who stimulated his lifelong intellectual interest. He thought that Shakespeare's works were not written by William Shakespeare, refusing to accept that their author could have risen from humble origins. In 1876, Major Glass accepted an offer to edit the ''Petersburg News'', and Carter joined him as a journeyman printer. Not long afterward, Major Glass accepted the editorship of the ''Danville Post'', but Carter did not join him, instead returning to Lynchburg.
Early career
When Glass was 19 years old, he moved with his father to
Petersburg. However, when young Glass could not find a job as a newspaper reporter in Petersburg, he returned to Lynchburg, and went to work for former Confederate General (and future U.S. Senator)
William Mahone
William Mahone (December 1, 1826October 8, 1895) was an American civil engineer, railroad executive, Confederate States Army general, and Virginia politician.
As a young man, Mahone was prominent in the building of Virginia's roads and railroa ...
's
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
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(AM&O), which was in receivership from 1877 to 1880. Glass was a clerk in the auditor's office at the railroad's headquarters. Several years later, under new owners and with headquarters relocated to
Roanoke, the railroad became the
Norfolk and Western
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(N&W). However, by then Glass had found the newspaper job he had initially wanted. His formative years as Virginia struggled to resolve a large pre-War debt (Mahone being a leading figure in the
Readjuster Party
The Readjuster Party was a bi-racial state-level political party formed in Virginia across party lines in the late 1870s during the turbulent period following the Reconstruction era that sought to reduce outstanding debt owed by the state. Readj ...
) and dealing with boom-and-bust economic cycles (some linked with stock speculation), helped mold Glass' conservative fiscal thinking, much as it did many other Virginia political leaders of his era.
![Young Carter Glass](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Young_Carter_Glass.jpg)
At the age of 22, Glass finally became a reporter, a job he had long sought, for the ''Lynchburg News''. He rose to become the morning newspaper's editor by 1887. The following year, the publisher retired and offered Glass an option to purchase the business. Desperate to find financial backing, Glass received the unexpected assistance from a relative who loaned him enough for a $100 down payment on the $13,000 deal. Free to write and publish whatever he wished, Glass wrote bold editorials and encouraged tougher reporting in the morning paper, which increased sales. Soon, Glass was able to acquire the afternoon ''Daily Advance'', then to buy out the competing ''Daily Republican''. Thus he became Lynchburg's sole
newspaper publisher
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; the modern-day ''Lynchburg News and Advance'' is the successor publication to his newspapers.
Entry into politics
As a prominent and respected newspaper editor, Glass often supported candidates who ran against Virginia's Democrats of the post-
Reconstruction
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period, who he felt were promoting bad fiscal policy. In 1896, the same year his father died, Glass attended the
Democratic National Convention
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as a delegate, and heard
William Jennings Bryan
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speak. Glass was elected to the
Senate of Virginia in 1899, and was a delegate to the
Virginia constitutional convention of 1901–1902. He was one of the most influential members of the convention, which instituted measures associated with
the Progressive movement, such as the establishment of the
State Corporation Commission to regulate railroads and other corporations, replacing the former
Virginia Board of Public Works
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.
Advocacy of segregation and disenfranchisement
The 1902 Constitution required that to be eligible to vote a man prove that he had paid a
poll tax of in each of the past three years, making voting a luxury. The Constitution also required that voters pass a
literacy test with their performance graded by the registrar. When questioned as to whether these measures were potentially discriminatory, Glass exclaimed, "Discrimination! Why that is exactly what we propose. To remove every negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate." Indeed, the number of African-Americans qualified to vote dropped from 147,000 to 21,000 immediately. Carter Glass remained one of the strongest advocates of segregation and continued to dedicate much of his political career to the perpetuation of Jim Crow laws in the South.
Congress, Secretary of the Treasury
![1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/1527_New_Hampshire_Avenue%2C_NW.JPG)
Glass was elected to the
United States House of Representatives
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as a
Democrat
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in 1902, to fill a vacancy. In 1913, he became Chairman of the
House Committee on Banking and Currency, where he worked with President
Woodrow Wilson
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to pass the Glass-Owen
Federal Reserve Act
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The Pani ...
. In 1918, Wilson appointed him
Secretary of the Treasury
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, succeeding
William Gibbs McAdoo
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. His signature as Secretary of the Treasury can be found on series 1914 Federal Reserve Notes, issued while he was in office. At the
1920 Democratic National Convention Glass was nominated for President as a
favorite son
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candidate from Virginia.
Glass served at the Treasury until 1920, when he was appointed to the
United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virginia's senior senator,
Thomas Staples Martin. Martin had been widely regarded as the head of Virginia's Democratic Party, a role filled during the 1920s by
Harry Flood Byrd
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of Winchester, another Virginia newspaperman who shared many of Glass's political views and who headed the political machine of
Conservative Democrats known as the
Byrd Organization
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, which dominated Virginia's politics until the 1960s. In 1933, Byrd became Virginia's junior Senator, joining Glass in the Senate after former Governor and then-senior U.S. Senator
Claude A. Swanson was appointed as
U.S. Secretary of the Navy by President
Franklin Roosevelt
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. Both Glass and Byrd were opposed to Roosevelt's
New Deal
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policies. Each was a strong supporter of fiscal conservatism and
states' rights
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. Glass and Byrd invoked senatorial courtesy to defeat Roosevelt's nomination of
Floyd H. Roberts to a federal judgeship, as part of a broader conflict over control of federal patronage in Virginia.
Glass served in the U.S. Senate for the remainder of his life, turning down the offer of a new appointment as Secretary of the Treasury from President Roosevelt in 1933. When the Democrats regained control of the Senate that year, Glass became Chairman of the
Appropriations Committee. He was
President pro tempore from 1941 to 1945, being succeeded as such by
Kenneth McKellar at the start of the custom of giving that post to the senior senator of the majority party. As a Senator, Glass's most notable achievement was passage of the
Glass–Steagall Act, which separated the activities of banks and securities brokers and created the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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. Glass, however, opposed the concept of bank deposit insurance and was “very unhappy” about this reform. A less successful minor legislative initiative from Glass was a 1930 resolution to ban dial telephones from the Senate, a measure that was successfully resisted by younger Senators who favored dial telephony.
Electoral history
* 1902; Glass was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 79.41% of the vote, defeating Republican Aaron Graham, Independent James S. Cowdon, and Socialist Labor H.D. McTier.
* 1904; Glass was re-elected with 69.07% of the vote, defeating Republican Samuel H. Hoge and Socialist Elory R. Spencer.
* 1906; Glass was re-elected unopposed.
* 1908; Glass was re-elected with 65.92% of the vote, defeating Republicans M. Hartman and John M. Parsons and Independent Jacob Harvey.
* 1910; Glass was re-elected with 87.64% of the vote, defeating Republican William F. Allison.
* 1912; Glass was re-elected with 72.84% of the vote, defeating Populist James S. Browning and Independents Adon A. Yoder and Jacob Harvey.
* 1914; Glass was re-elected with 90.72% of the vote, defeating Socialist B.F. Ginther.
* 1916; Glass was re-elected unopposed.
* 1918; Glass was re-elected unopposed.
Family, decline, death
![Montview historical marker, Lynchburg, VA IMG 4117](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Montview_historical_marker%2C_Lynchburg%2C_VA_IMG_4117.JPG)
Carter Glass was a Methodist. When he was twenty-eight, Glass married Aurelia McDearmon Caldwell, a school teacher. They had four children. She died of a heart ailment in 1937. Glass remarried in 1940 at the age of 82. His second wife, Mary Scott, was his constant companion as his health began to fail over the next few years. They lived at the
Mayflower Hotel
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Apartments in Washington, D.C. Starting in 1942, Glass began suffering from various age-related illnesses and could not attend Senate meetings after that time. However, he refused to resign from the Senate, despite many requests that he do so, and even kept his committee chairmanship. Many visitors were also kept away from him by his wife.
A confidential 1943 analysis of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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by
Isaiah Berlin for the British
Foreign Office
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** Foreign office and foreign minister
* Unit ...
stated that Glass
Glass died of
congestive heart failure
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in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 1946. He is interred at Spring Hill Cemetery in Lynchburg. His fellow sponsor of the Glass-Owen Act, Senator
Robert Latham Owen
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Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railroa ...
, lies nearby.
Legacy
"Montview", also known as the "Carter Glass Mansion", was built in 1923 on his farm outside of the-then boundaries of Lynchburg in
Campbell County. It is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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and now serves as a museum on the grounds of
Liberty University
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. It lies within the expanded city limits of Lynchburg. The front lawn of "Montview" is the burial site of Dr.
Jerry Falwell
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, founder of
Liberty University
Liberty University (LU) is a private Baptist university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Liberty i ...
.
The
Virginia Department of Transportation
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's
Carter Glass Memorial Bridge was named in his honor in 1949. It carries the Lynchburg bypass of
U.S. Route 29
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, the major north-south highway in the region, across the
James River between Lynchburg and
Amherst County.
A chair in the Department of Government was created in Glass's honor at
Sweet Briar College. It has been held by notable faculty including Dr.
Barbara A. Perry.
An administrative building at
Harvard Business School
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was named for Glass in the late 1920s. In 2020, the name Glass was removed from this building due to the efforts by Glass to "strip Black citizens of their voting rights through means such as a poll tax and literacy test — efforts that intentionally disenfranchised Blacks and promulgated segregation, with pernicious and long-lasting effects." In a letter to the Harvard community, Dean Nitin Nohria said, "We therefore cannot allow the Glass name to remain at the School." The building was renamed as Cash House, in honor of
James Cash Jr., a distinguished Professor who served at Harvard for 36 years beginning in 1976.
Glass is one of the few Americans to appear on a U.S. coin during his lifetime. As a very prominent citizen of the city of Lynchburg, the 1936
Lynchburg Sesquicentennial commemorative half dollar has his image and name on the obverse. Only 20,000 were minted as they were not intended for regular circulation.
Silver Commemoratives 1936 LYNCHBURG 50C MS
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See also
Notes and references
Further reading
* ''Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, 1789–1995'' By Bernard S. Katz, C. Daniel Vencill, Greenwood Press
* ''Carter Glass: A Biography'' By Rixey Smith, Norman Beasley (1939) republished by Ayer Company Publishers,
External links
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Statements and Speeches of Carter Glass
A collection of works by Carter Glass
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