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(Triis was held to take to White House in April 1939
Was not taken)

B, Magruder Wingfield, son of the late John Richard
Wingfield and Ida Vest Wingfield, was born at Chariottesville,
Virginia, on October 9, 1899• He attended McGuirefs School for
Boys at Richmond, Virginia, and the Augusta Military Acadeirqr at
Fort Defiance, in the Valley of Virginia. He took his collage
and law courses at the University of Virginia and received the
degree of LL.B. at that University in 1922. He then engaged
in the general practice of law at Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia,
until May 1923, when he was employed as a law clerk by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Since that
time he has been engaged in the legal work of the Reserve Board,
being promoted successively to Assistant Counsel and Assistant
General Counsel to the Reserve Board. The latter position he
now occupies. In the fall of 1918 Mr. Wingfield entered the
United States Arny and served until after the termination of
the World War. Mr. Wingfield has retained his residence at
Charlottesvilie, Virginia* He has always been a Democrat; but,
in view of his absence from Virginia while engaged in the legal
work of the Reserve Board, he is not connected with any faction




in the Democratic Party in Virginia*