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Chester Morrill COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Register of Papers Processed: MA Date: 10/31/55 CHESTER MORRILL The papers of Chester Morrill, lawyer, government official, Secretary and Special Adviser to the Federal Reserve Board, Secretary to the Open Market Committee, are mostly incorporated in the files of the government agencies with -which he worked. He has dictated his memoirs to the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University, New lork, including in them substantial sections concerned with his years at the Federal Reserve Board, These memoirs will not be open for use until five years after Mr, Morrill1s death. Chester Morrill II - 2 Biographical Note 1885, Aug. 22 Born, Shelby County, Missouri 1909 ia^.B., ueorgetovn University, Washington D.C. 1909 Admitted to bar and began practice at Knoxville, Tennessee 1909, Oct. 20 Married Anna Margaret Anderson (2 children) 1914-24 Held various responsible positions in the Department of Agriculture 1921 Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture 1925-31 General Counsel, War Finance Corporation 1927 Secretary and General Counsel, Federal Farm Loan Boerd Secretary, Board of Governors of Federal Reserve 1931-50 System, then Special Adviser 1936-50 Secretary to Federal Opeh Market Committee 1954- President, Cosmos Club, Washington D. C. See: Internal memorandum 5/20/54 for further data
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