Person

Carter Glass

U.S. representative who led the House subcommittee that drafted the Federal Reserve bill; later a senator.

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According to Carter Glass

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Federal Reserve Act According to Carter Glass Scholarship & press 1
Glass claimed the key ideas as his own in his 1927 memoir; Samuel Untermyer, in a pamphlet, called the claim "fiction".
Federal Reserve Act According to Federal Reserve Scholarship & press 2
The Kansas City Fed on the House bill, before the Senate and conference changes.

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The Meeting at Jekyll Island, Federal Reserve History (Federal Reserve Banks and Board of Governors), 4 Dec 2015. Scholarship & press
Glass, by now a senator, claimed credit for the key ideas in the Federal Reserve Act
in which he asserted that Glass's claims of primary authorship were "fiction," "fable," and a "work of imagination"
Claims Glory for Owen. Wilson, McAdoo and Bryan also Entitled to Credit
Federal Reserve Act Signed into Law, Federal Reserve History (staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City), 22 Nov 2013. Scholarship & press
While Aldrich would have created a central body, the Glass bill provided for a system of regional banks.

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