William McChesney Martin, Jr., Papers, 1931-1986

<P>William McChesney Martin, Jr., was born December 16, 1902, in St. Louis, the son of Rebecca Woods and William McChesney Martin. He attended Yale University, 1928, and Benton College of Law in St. Louis in 1931, and received honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws from Temple University in 1951, Tulane University in 1953, and Amherst College in 1954. He served in the bank examination department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 1928-1929, and as the head of statistics with A.G. Edwards in St. Louis, 1931-1938. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1931 to 1938 and served as the governor of that institution from 1935 to 1938. He was appointed a member of the board of directors for the Export-Import Bank in 1945 and served as chairman and president from 1946 to 1948. He was also the assistant secretary of the treasury from February 1949 to March 1951. President Truman appointed him chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 1951, a position in which he served until 1970, during six administrations. He died July 29, 1998.</P>

<P>The papers are representative of the different positions and organizations in which William McChesney Martin, Jr., was involved. They include papers relating to the New York Stock Exchange, 1936-1949; the Federal Reserve Board; the National Geographic Society; minutes of the Rockefeller Center, 1978-1980; the United States Senate Subcommittee of the Committee of Banking and Currency, 1957-1962; Export-Import Bank, 1945-1950; and personal correspondence and diaries, 1945-1949 and 1961-1963.</P>

<P>Finding aid available. A partial finding aid with select digitized items is available at the Federal Reserve Archive (FRASER) website <a href=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/archival/1341>here</a>.</P>

<P>62 boxes; 13 volumes; 4 oversize folders</P>

<P>Cite as: William McChesney Martin, Jr., Papers, Missouri Historical Society Archives, St. Louis.</P>

<P>威廉·麦克切斯尼·马丁（小）生于1902年12月16日，圣路易斯，为丽贝卡·伍兹和威廉·麦克切斯尼·马丁之子。1928年，马丁就读于耶鲁大学，1931年进入圣路易斯的本顿法学院学习，并于1951年、1953年及1954年分别获得坦普尔大学、杜兰大学和阿默斯特学院的荣誉法学博士学位。1928至1929年，他在圣路易斯联邦储备银行担任银行检查部门职务，1931至1938年，担任圣路易斯A.G.爱德华兹公司统计部门负责人。1931至1938年，马丁成为纽约证券交易所的成员，并自1935年起担任该机构的董事长直至1938年。1945年，他被任命为进出口银行董事会成员，1946至1948年担任董事长兼总裁。1949年2月至1951年3月，他还担任财政部的助理部长。1951年，杜鲁门总统任命他为联邦储备委员会主席，在此职位上，他一直服务至1970年，历经六届政府。马丁于1998年7月29日去世。</P>

<P>该档案反映了威廉·麦克切斯尼·马丁（小）参与的不同职位和组织。其中包括与纽约证券交易所（1936-1949年）、联邦储备委员会、美国国家地理学会、洛克菲勒中心会议记录（1978-1980年）、美国参议院银行和货币委员会下属小组委员会（1957-1962年）、进出口银行（1945-1950年）以及个人信件和日记（1945-1949年及1961-1963年）相关的文件。</P>

<P>检索指南可用。部分检索指南及精选数字化项目可在联邦储备档案（FRASER）网站<a href=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/archival/1341>此处</a>获取。</P>

<P>共计62个盒子；13卷；4个超大型文件夹</P>

<P>引用格式：威廉·麦克切斯尼·马丁（小），档案，密苏里历史学会档案馆，圣路易斯。</P>