Earl Warren papers, 1864-1974 (bulk 1953-1974).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 250,000 items; 846 containers plus 1 classified and 12 oversize; 340.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Biggs, John, 1895- -- Correspondence
- Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971 -- Correspondence
- Brennan, William J. (William Joseph), 1906-1997 -- Correspondence
- Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 -- Correspondence
- Burger, Warren E., 1907-1995 -- Correspondence
- Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964 -- Correspondence
- Carty, Edwin L. -- Correspondence
- Clark, Charles Edward, 1889-1963 -- Correspondence
- Clark, Tom C. (Tom Campbell), 1899-1977 -- Correspondence
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980 -- Correspondence
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Correspondence
- Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991 -- Correspondence
- Fortas, Abe -- Correspondence
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 -- Correspondence
- Freund, Paul Abraham, 1908- -- Correspondence
- Goldberg, Arthur J. -- Correspondence
- Harlan, John M. (John Marshall), 1899-1971 -- Correspondence
- Jackson, Robert Houghwout, 1892-1954 -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Correspondence
- Jones, Walter P. (Walter Parker), 1894-1974 -- Correspondence
- Kaufman, Irving R. (Irving Robert), 1910-1992 -- Correspondence
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Correspondence
- Knight, Goodwin, 1896-1970 -- Correspondence
- Kuchel, Thomas H. -- Correspondence
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 -- Correspondence
- Minton, Sherman A., 1890-1965 -- Correspondence
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Correspondence
- Olney, Warren, 1904-1978 -- Correspondence
- Parker, John Johnston, 1885-1958 -- Correspondence
- Phillips, Orie Leon, 1885- -- Correspondence
- Prettyman, E. Barrett, (Elijah Barrett), 1891-1971 -- Correspondence
- Reed, Stanley Forman, 1884-1980 -- Correspondence
- Stewart, Potter -- Correspondence
- Storke, Thomas M. (Thomas More), 1876-1971 -- Correspondence
- Swig, Benjamin Harrison, 1893-1980 -- Correspondence
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Correspondence
- White, Byron R., 1917-2002 -- Correspondence
- Whittaker, Charles Evans, 1901-1973 -- Correspondence
- United States. Supreme Court
- United States. Warren Commission
- Harry S. Truman Library
- Smithsonian Institution
- Apportionment (Election law)
- Church and state
- Civil rights
- Constitutional law -- United States
- Criminal procedure
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Law -- United States
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1948
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1952
- Race relations
- Jurists
Microfilm edition available of containers 152-171 (Microfilm 23,480), containers 347-366 (Microfilm 23,481), 570-602 (Microfilm 23,479), and 603-630 (Microfilm 23,588) available; cataloged in record 2007061504.
Open to research.
Classified, in part.
Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Personal, family, and official correspondence; speeches and writings; Supreme Court files consisting of calendars, docket books, conference lists, bench memoranda, notes, opinions, and correspondence with associate justices; records relating to lower courts; and organizational files, scrapbooks, and other papers. Dating chiefly from Warren's appointment as Chief Justice, the papers relate principally to his activities with the Supreme Court and to the various landmark decisions identified with his tenure (1953-1969) in such areas as civil rights, race relations, criminal procedure, legislative reapportionment, freedom of speech and press, and church-state relations. Also includes material relating to the election campaigns of 1948 and 1952, Warren's connection with the Smithsonian Institution and the Harry S. Truman Library, and his chairmanship of the commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Correspondents include John Biggs, Jr., Hugo LaFayette Black, William J. Brennan, Edmund G. Brown, Warren E. Burger, Harold H. Burton, Edwin L. Carty, Charles Edward Clark, Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Louis Finkelstein, Abe Fortas, Felix Frankfurter, Paul Abraham Freund, Arthur J. Goldberg, John M. Harlan, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter P. Jones, Irving R. Kaufman, John F. Kennedy, Goodwin Knight, Thomas H. Kuchel, Thurgood Marshall, Sherman A. Minton, Richard M. Nixon, Warren Olney III, John Johnston Parker, Orie Leon Phillips, E. Barrett Prettyman, Stanley Forman Reed, Potter Stewart, Thomas M. Storke, Benjamin Harrison Swig, Harry S. Truman, Byron R. White, and Charles Evans Whittaker.
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Collection material in English.
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