Huston Thompson papers
Contributors: United States. Federal Trade Commission
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1500
Subjects: Correspondence; Industries; Strikes and lockouts; Labor disputes; Law and legislation; New Deal, 1933-1939; Securities industry; Politics and government; Social conditions; Tennessee Valley Authority; History
Description: Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, articles, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating to Thompson's service as legal counsel in the investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and his service (1934-1952) as mediator in national industrial strike emergencies.  Subjects include the New Deal and Fair Deal eras, securities legislation, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and Woodrow Wilson.  Correspondents include Helen Woodrow Bones, John W. Davis, Robert Lansing, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, W.G. McAdoo, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Willis Van Devanter, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. John Farr Simmons, 1967.

Lawyer and government official.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012039