Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 9421—Designating the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

February 08, 1944

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act (38 Stat. 260), as amended by section 203 (a) of the Act of August 23, 1935 (49 Stat. 704), I hereby designate Marriner S. Eccles as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to serve as such for a term of four years effective February 1, 1944.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 8, 1944.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9421—Designating the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/355160

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