Charles Carroll Glover, Jr.

Charles Carroll Glover Jr.

Library of Congress

Quick Facts

Place of Birth:

Washington, DC

Date of Birth:

January 1, 1888

Place of Death:

Washington, DC

Date of Death:

November 13, 1976

Place of Burial:

Washington, DC

Cemetery Name:

Oak Hill Cemetery

Early life and education

Charles Carroll Glover Junior was the son of Annie Cunningham Poor Glover and banker, philanthropist, and developer Charles Carroll Glover, Sr.He followed in his father's footsteps and became a banker and philanthropist in Washington, DC. He was educated at Yale, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1910 before attending George Washington University where he received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1912. Charles Glover, Jr. continued his education and received a Doctor of Laws from George Washington University in 1952.

Career

Like his father before him, Charles worked as a banker. He was president of Riggs Bank in 1916 while also working as an investment banker with his father in a firm called Glover and Father.He went on to become president of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Club and the Yale Club of Washington.During the Great Depression, Glover was the DC representative on the Unemployment Relief Commission.

Family

In 1913 Charles married Marion Everett Wise. Marion's father died one month after her birth in 1891. Her mother Marion McAllister, remarried Dr. Henry L. Wagner and they lived in San Francisco until her death in 1903. An orphan at the age of twelve, she was taken in by her aunt and uncle, Edith McAllister and Senator Francis G. Newlands.They had two children, Charles Carroll Glover III, and Nancy E. Symington.

Glover-Archbold Park

Charles Carroll Glover, Sr. and Anne Archbold had donated land in the 1920s which included a right-of-way for what was then known as the "Glover-Archbold Parkway." The right of way was not exercised by developers initially. After twenty years, and the conclusion of World War II, a four lane divided highway was proposed to cut through the valley and run in a north-south direction. Anne Archbold was vehemently against this development. Anne recruited Charles Carroll Glover, Jr. to help combat the development of what had become a quiet and beautiful "wealth of wild flowers and bird life." In 1961, they filed an injunction against the DC Commissioners who were proposing an even wider highway and bridge crossing the Potomac River. Supported by Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, Senate majority leader Michael Mansfield submitted a failed bill to transfer the right-of-way to the National Park Service. Archbold and Glover, Jr. continued to fight the development of the highway and won the fight in 1967. Thanks to their tenacity, the land was transferred to management by the National Park Service and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Charles Carroll Glover, Jr. died in 1976 and is buried near his parents in Washington, DC.