The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 41, September 25, 2005, Article 15

ASSAY COMMISSIONER ROOS DIES

The following is from the Saturday, September 24th St. Louis
Dispatch:

"Lawrence K. Roos, one of the most influential St. Louis-area
political leaders of the 20th century, died Friday evening after
a short battle with stomach cancer. He was 87."

"Mr. Roos was born in St. Louis on Feb. 1, 1918, and graduated
from St. Louis Country Day School and Yale University. He
entered the U.S. Army as a private in 1941 and rose to the rank
of major in 3 1/2 years of service in Europe during World War II.
His military service earned him a Bronze Star and five battle stars.

Upon his return to St. Louis after the war, Mr. Roos was elected
a Republican state representative from the 1st District in 1946 -
at 28, the youngest member of the state Legislature. He served
two terms in the state House before beginning his banking career."

"In the presidential campaign of 1952, he was chairman of
Missouri Citizens for Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1954, he was
named Missouri chairman of the Crusade for Freedom and
was a member of the delegation that traveled to Europe to
observe the operation of Radio Free Europe.

In 1955, Mr. Roos was appointed a member of the United
States Assay Commission by President Eisenhower. Meanwhile,
Mr. Roos was beginning years of service on the boards of
numerous civic and philanthropic organizations in the St. Louis
area."

"In 1975, he was elected executive vice president and a director
of the First National Bank in St. Louis, and served in that
capacity until becoming president of the Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis in March 1976."

"As president of the local Federal Reserve Bank, Mr. Roos
supervised the activities of more than 1,200 employees providing
central banking functions to a seven-state area. In 1980, he
became a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee,
on which he was an outspoken advocate of a conservative monetary
policy, including controls on the growth of the money supply and
reductions in federal spending."

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[Also serving on the 1955 Assay Commission was numismatist
Mrs. R. Henry Norweb. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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