Background
SMEAD, Edward Leon was born on February 23, 1884 in Branch Company, Michigan, United States. Son of Nelson and Mary (Smith) Smead.
chief Division of Bank Operations Federal Reserve Board
SMEAD, Edward Leon was born on February 23, 1884 in Branch Company, Michigan, United States. Son of Nelson and Mary (Smith) Smead.
Northern Indiana. Commercial College, Valparaiso, Indiana., 1904. Georgetown Law School, Washington, District of Columbia, 1914, Bachelor of Laws.
Teacher, public schools, 1901-1904. With Coldwater (Michigan) National Bank, 1904-1905. Accountant, Navy Department, Island of Guam, 1905-1910.
Assistant to chief clerk bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, 1911-1914. Assistant chief Division of Reports and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, 1914-1920. Chief of same division (now known as Division of Bank Operations, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve system), 1920-1944, and director of division, 1944-1948.
Administrator for War Loans, Board Governors of Federal Reserve System, October 1942-August 1946. Admitted to practice before District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1914, and before Supreme Court of United States, 1926.
Mason.; Club: Pasadena.
Married Marion E. Lake, April. Children: Fay Agana, Richard Peer, Ward Grayson (deceased).