Donald R. Richberg papers, 1900-1960 (bulk 1953-1958).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 17,300 items; 58 containers; 24 linear feetSubject(s): - Bryan, D. Tennant (David Tennant), 1906-1998 -- Correspondence
- Creel, George, 1876-1953 -- Correspondence
- Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 -- Correspondence
- Crow, Allen B. -- Correspondence
- Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé), 1870-1956 -- Correspondence
- Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 -- Correspondence
- Davies, Joseph Edward -- Correspondence
- DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959 -- Correspondence
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 -- Correspondence
- Hawkes, Albert W. (Albert Wahl), 1878-1971 -- Correspondence
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 -- Correspondence
- Hutchinson, B. E. (B. Edwin), 1888-1961 -- Correspondence
- Hutton, Edward F. (Edward Frances), 1875-1962 -- Correspondence
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 -- Correspondence
- Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010 -- Correspondence
- Lewis, William Draper, 1867-1949 -- Correspondence
- Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981 -- Correspondence
- Lindsey, Ben B. (Ben Barr), 1869-1943 -- Correspondence
- Locke, Peter, -1960 -- Correspondence
- Lord, John S., 1881-1979 -- Correspondence
- McIntyre, Marvin Hunter, 1878-1943 -- Correspondence
- Merriam, Charles Edward, 1874-1953 -- Correspondence
- Moreell, Ben, 1892-1978 -- Correspondence
- Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 -- Correspondence
- Robertson, A. Willis (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973 -- Correspondence
- Rumely, Edward A. (Edward Aloysius), 1882-1964 -- Correspondence
- Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971 -- Correspondence
- Stagg, Amos Alonzo, 1862-1965 -- Correspondence
- Swope, Gerard, 1872-1957 -- Correspondence
- Wallace, DeWitt, 1889-1981 -- Correspondence
- Watson, Edwin (Edwin Martin), 1883-1945 -- Correspondence
- United States. National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
- National Emergency Council (U.S.)
- Progressive Party (1912)
- American literature
- Conservatism -- United States
- Industrial policy -- United States
- Labor laws and legislation -- United States
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Practice of law -- Washington (D.C.)
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
- United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- Authors
- Lawyers
- Public officials
Open to research.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, interviews, subject files, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Richberg's service during the New Deal era including his work as adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in formulating the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, general counsel and chairman of the U.S. National Recovery Administration, and executive director of the National Emergency Council (U.S.). Includes material pertaining to Richberg's authorship of labor legislation and to his political career in the Bull Moose movement, as director of the National Legislative Reference Bureau of the Progressive Party, and later as a conservative. Also includes material on his law practice in Washington, D.C., and on his literary and public speaking career.
Correspondents include David Tennant Bryan, George Creel, Herbert David Croly, Allen B. Crow, Homer S. Cummings, Clarence Darrow, Joseph Edward Davies, Cecil B. DeMille, Felix Frankfurter, Albert W. Hawkes, Herbert Hoover, B.E. Hutchinson, Edward F. Hutton, Harold L. Ickes, Joseph P. Kennedy, James Jackson Kilpatrick, William Draper Lewis, David Eli Lilienthal, Ben B. Lindsey, Peter Locke, John S. Lord, Marvin Hunter McIntyre, Charles Edward Merriam, Ben Moreell, Frances Perkins, A. Willis Robertson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman, Edward A. Rumely, Richard B. Russell, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Gerard Swope, DeWitt Wallace, and Edwin Watson.
Lawyer, author, and public official.
Collection material in English.
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