Harold H. Burton papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Petroleum law and legislation; United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program; United States. Office of Price Administration; United Nations; Correspondence; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Law and legislation; United States. Supreme Court; American Unitarian Association; Steel industry and trade; American Legion; Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education; Cases; Law; United States. Federal Trade Commission; Politics and government; Trials, litigation; Standard Oil Company; Social life and customs; Segregation in education; United States. Congress. Senate; United States; Inc Townsend Plan; Constitutional law; Bowdoin College; Practice of law; American Association of the Red Cross; United States. Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit); Topeka (Kan.).
Description: Correspondence, diaries (1941-1963), legal case files, speeches, writings, reports, broadsides, maps, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and photographs, chiefly relating to Burton's service as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1945-1958) and U.S. senator from Ohio (1941-1945).  Subjects include his Cleveland law practice, Ohio and Republican Party politics, social life in Washington, D.C., Townsend Plan, Inc., the Truman Committee (U.S. Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program), U.S. Office of Price Administration, United Nations, Alaska, American Association of the Red Cross, American Unitarian Association, American Legion, Bowdoin College, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.  Included in Burton's extensive Supreme Court files are bench and certiorari memoranda, conference lists, notes, drafts, opinions, docket books, and other files relating to such cases as Standard Oil v. Federal Trade Commission, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer, and Brown v. Board of Education.  Also includes material on the Hitz family.

Correspondents include William J. Brennan, Owen Brewster, John W. Bricker, Styles Bridges, Harry Flood Byrd, Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John M. Harlan, Earl E. Hart, William Hitz, J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Frank J. Lausche, Sherman Minton, Frank Murphy, Stanley Forman Reed, Donald R. Richberg, Harlan Fiske Stone, Robert A. Taft, Harry S. Truman, Fred M. Vinson, Henry Agard Wallace, and Charles Evans Whittaker.
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Microfilm edition of diaries available, in part, no. 17,858.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1980.

Gift, Harold H. Burton, 1959-1963.

Gift, William S. Burton, 1965.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Lawyer, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. senator from Ohio, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.