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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaCarter GLASS
(1858-1946)
Senate Years of Service:
1920-1946Party: DemocratGLASS, Carter, a
Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Lynchburg,
Campbell County, Va., January 4, 1858; attended private and public
schools; newspaper reporter, editor and owner; member, State senate
1899-1903, when he resigned; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1901; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peter J. Otey;
reelected to the Fifty-eighth and to the eight succeeding
Congresses and served from November 4, 1902, until December 16,
1918, when he resigned to accept a cabinet position; chairman,
Committee on Banking and Currency (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth
Congresses); member of the Democratic National Committee 1916-1928;
appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Woodrow Wilson and
served from 1918 to 1920 when he resigned, having been appointed a
Senator; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate on
November 18, 1919, and subsequently elected on November 3, 1920, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas S. Martin in the
term ending March 3, 1925, but did not qualify until February 2,
1920, preferring to retain his Cabinet portfolio; reelected in
1924, 1930, 1936, and again in 1942, and served from February 2,
1920, until his death on May 28, 1946; served as President pro
tempore during the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses;
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department
(Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-third
through Seventy-ninth Congresses); declined an appointment as
Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt; died in Washington, D.C., May 28, 1946; interment in
Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Koeniger, Alfred C. ”‘Unreconstructed
Rebel’: The Political Thought and Senate Career of Carter
Glass, 1929-1936.” Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University,
1980; Lyle, John O. “The United States Senate Career of
Carter Glass, 1920-1933.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of
South Carolina, 1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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