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Eccles Becomes Federal Reserve Board Chairman

United States of America · Politics / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1936

Marriner Stoddard Eccles1 February 1936

Washington · Politics / Federal Reserve

Marriner Eccles begins service as chairman of the reorganized Federal Reserve Board, taking the leading policy role in the central bank after the institutional changes made by the Banking Act of 1935.

Names involved

Marriner Stoddard Eccles

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