Joseph Edward Davies papers, 1860-1958 (bulk 1912-1958).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 75,000 items; 224 containers plus 5 oversize; 97.6 linear feetSubject(s): - Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 -- Correspondence
- Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 -- Correspondence
- Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
- Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 -- Correspondence
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Correspondence
- Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé), 1870-1956 -- Correspondence
- Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 -- Correspondence
- Early, Stephen T. (Stephen Tyree), 1889-1951 -- Correspondence
- Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977 -- Correspondence
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Correspondence
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Correspondence
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 -- Correspondence
- Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965 -- Correspondence
- Gromyko, Andreĭ Andreevich, 1909-1989 -- Correspondence
- Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959 -- Correspondence
- Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 -- Correspondence
- Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 -- Correspondence
- Henderson, Loy W. (Loy Wesley), 1892-1986 -- Correspondence
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 -- Correspondence
- Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946 -- Correspondence
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 -- Correspondence
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Krock, Arthur, 1886- -- Correspondence
- Lange, Oskar, 1904-1965 -- Correspondence
- Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967 -- Correspondence
- Lunt, Alfred -- Correspondence
- Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959 -- Correspondence
- McIntyre, Marvin Hunter, 1878-1943 -- Correspondence
- Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-1986 -- Correspondence
- Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967 -- Correspondence
- Murrow, Edward R. -- Correspondence
- Novikov, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Vasilévich), 1903- -- Correspondence
- Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 -- Correspondence
- Pittman, Key, 1872-1940 -- Correspondence
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 -- Correspondence
- Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence
- Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973 -- Correspondence
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
- Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949 -- Correspondence
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 -- Correspondence
- Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961 -- Correspondence
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Correspondence
- Tydings, Millard E. (Millard Evelyn), 1890-1961 -- Correspondence
- Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953 -- Correspondence
- Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich, 1883-1954 -- Correspondence
- Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 -- Correspondence
- Warner, Harry Morris, 1881-1958 -- Correspondence
- Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961 -- Correspondence
- Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944 -- Correspondence
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Correspondence
- Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972 -- Correspondence
- United States. Federal Trade Commission
- United States. President's Advisory Commission on Military Training
- Sea Cloud (Yacht)
- Potsdam Conference (1945)
- Diplomatic and consular service, American
- Draft -- United States
- Elections -- United States
- International economic relations
- Military education -- United States
- Trade regulation -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Congresses
- Yachts
- Belgium
- Belgium -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Luxembourg -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
- United States -- Foreign economic relations
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Belgium
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Luxembourg
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Authors
- Diplomats
- Lawyers
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Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, subject files, newspaper diaries, biographical material, family papers, financial records, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to foreign affairs with emphasis on American-Soviet relations. The papers document Davies's career as chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (1915-1916), U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union (1936-1938) and to Belgium and Luxembourg (1938-1939), as special presidential envoy for Franklin D. Roosevelt to confer with Joseph Stalin (1943) and for Harry S. Truman to confer with Sir Winston Churchill (1945), as special adviser to Truman and U.S. secretary of state James F. Byrnes at the Potsdam Conference (1945 ), and as vice chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Commission on Military Training (1946-1947). Subjects include Belgium, economic relations, presidential and senatorial election campaigns, post-World War II conditions, universal military training, and Davies's yacht Sea Cloud. Includes manuscripts of two unpublished books titled In the Days of Their Power and Glory and Missions for Peace.
Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch; Max Aiken, Baron Beaverbrook; James F. Byrnes; Sir Winston Churchill; Homer S. Cummings; Josephus Daniels; Stephen T. Early; Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon; Albert Einstein; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Felix Frankfurter; Joseph C. Grew; Andreĭ Andreevich Gromyko; Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of Halifax; Warren G. Harding; W. Averell Harriman; Loy W. Henderson; J. Edgar Hoover; Harry L. Hopkins; Cordell Hull; Harold L. Ickes; Arthur Krock; Oskar Lange; Henry Robinson Luce; Alfred Lunt; George C. Marshall; Marvin Hunter McIntyre; Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov; Henry Morgenthau; Edward R. Murrow; N.V. Novikov; Drew Pearson; Key Pittman; Sam Rayburn; Eddie Rickenbacker; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Samuel I. Rosenman; Edward R. Stettinius; Adlai E. Stevenson; Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, Harry S. Truman; Millard E. Tydings; Fred M. Vinson; Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky; Henry A. Wallace; Harry Morris Warner; Sumner Welles; Wendell L. Willkie; Woodrow Wilson; and Edward, Duke of Windsor.
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Diplomat, lawyer, and author. Born 1876; died 1958.
Collection material in English.
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