biography
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Eccles, Marriner (Stoddard)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1977)
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| biography:
| Businessman and government official, born in Logan, Utah, USA. A Morman, he invested family money into a Rocky Mountain real-estate and banking empire, Eccles Investment Co (1916–34). As governor, then chairman, of the Federal Reserve Board (1934–51), he used the Banking Act of 1935 to centralize federal control over banking and currency, returning to business later. |
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