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Glass was elected to the Virginia legislature in 1899.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History">[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/03/30/carter-glass-the-most-significant-american-senator-in-banking-history/ Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History]. ''Fascinating Politics''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> Deeply racist, he was mostly responsible for the disenfranchisement of blacks in [[Virginia]] during the 1901–02 state constitutional convention through the use of [[poll tax]]es and [[literacy test]]s after the Southern Democrats took power.<ref>[https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-is-it-time-to-reappraise-carter-glass/article_bd04976a-1ff8-5256-a1df-e9ea41871e58.html Editorial: Is it time to reappraise Carter Glass?]. ''The Roanoke Times''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> The same convention also instituted [[progressive]] "reforms" aimed at targeting [[corporation]]s.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>
Glass was elected to the Virginia legislature in 1899.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History">[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/03/30/carter-glass-the-most-significant-american-senator-in-banking-history/ Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History]. ''Fascinating Politics''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> Deeply racist, he was mostly responsible for the disenfranchisement of blacks in [[Virginia]] during the 1901–02 state constitutional convention through the use of [[poll tax]]es and [[literacy test]]s after the Southern Democrats took power.<ref>[https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-is-it-time-to-reappraise-carter-glass/article_bd04976a-1ff8-5256-a1df-e9ea41871e58.html Editorial: Is it time to reappraise Carter Glass?]. ''The Roanoke Times''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> The same convention also instituted [[progressive]] "reforms" aimed at targeting [[corporation]]s.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>
While Glass would sometimes show respect for individual blacks he knew, he viewed down on them as not being equal to whites.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>
While Glass would sometimes show respect for individual blacks he knew, he viewed down on them as not being equal to whites.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>
[[File:Harry Byrd and Carter Glass.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Glass (left) with [[Harry F. Byrd|Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.]] (right).]]
==U.S. Senate==
==U.S. Senate==
Glass supported [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] for president in the [[United States presidential election, 1932|1932 election]].<ref name="Glass, Carter (1858–1946)">[https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/glass-carter-1858-1946/ Glass, Carter (1858–1946)]. ''Encyclopedia Virginia''. Retrieved April 21, 2021.</ref>
Glass supported [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] for president in the [[United States presidential election, 1932|1932 election]].<ref name="Glass, Carter (1858–1946)">[https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/glass-carter-1858-1946/ Glass, Carter (1858–1946)]. ''Encyclopedia Virginia''. Retrieved April 21, 2021.</ref>