James P. McGranery and Regina Clark McGranery papers
Contributors: McGranery, Regina Clark, 1907-1975
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: Politics and government; Courts; United States. Commission on Government Security; New Deal, 1933-1939; Subversive activities; United States. District Court (Pennsylvania : Eastern District); Internal security; Emigration and immigration; Naturalization; Catholic Church; Political activity; Associated Alumnae of the Sacred Heart; Correspondence; Practice of law; United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Attorney General; Democratic Party (U.S.); Girl Scouts; Civil rights; Woman's National Democratic Club (U.S.); Allegiance; Laity; United States. Dept. of Justice; Espionage; Labor unions; Racketeering; United States; Girl Scouts of the United States of America; Women
Description: Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial and legal papers, family papers, appointment books, press releases, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating principally to McGranery's duties as assistant to U.S. attorneys general Francis Biddle and Tom C. Clark, as U.S. judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as U.S. attorney general, as a member of the U.S. Commission on Government Security, and as a law partner with his wife, Regina Clark McGranery, in Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington, D.C.  Reflects McGranery's role as a New Deal Democrat in Philadelphia, Pa., and as a leading Catholic layman.  Topics include questions of anti-racketeering, civil rights, espionage, immigration and naturalization, internal security, loyalty, political activities of organized labor, subversive activities, and reform of the U.S. Dept. of Justice.

Papers of Regina Clark McGranery reflect the political role of women during the New Deal and pertain to her career as a lawyer and to her  leadership in the Associated Alumnae of the Sacred Heart, Girl Scouts of the United States of America, and Woman's National Democratic Club.

Correspondents include Francis Biddle, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Tom C. Clark, Denis J. Dougherty, India Edwards, James Aloysius Farley, J. Edgar Hoover, John W. McCormack, Patrick O'Boyle, Eleanor M. O'Bryne, Samuel F. Pryor, Jr., and family, Joseph V. and Permelia Reed, Fulton J. Sheen, Francis Spellman, and James J. Vallely.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Deposit, Clark McGranery, James P. McGranery, Jr., and Regina McGranery, 1975-1976.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

James Patrick McGranery, U.S. attorney general, district court judge, and representative from Pennysylvania; and Regina Clark McGranery, lawyer.

Collection material in English.

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