Thomas G. Corcoran papers, 1792-1982 (bulk 1965-1980).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 175,175 items; 638 containers plus 1 classified; 245.6 linear feetSubject(s): - Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 -- Correspondence
- Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968 -- Correspondence
- Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971 -- Correspondence
- Burling, Edward B. 1870-1966 -- Correspondence
- Chennault, Anna
- Chennault, Anna -- Correspondence
- Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958
- Cohen, Benjamin V
- Cohen, Benjamin V. -- Correspondence
- Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993
- Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993 -- Correspondence
- Denman, William, 1872-1959 -- Correspondence
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980 -- Correspondence
- Dupuy, Paul, Mme
- Eicher, Edward C. -- Correspondence
- Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 -- Correspondence
- Frank, Jerome, 1889-1957 -- Correspondence
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 -- Correspondence
- George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957
- Halbach, Ernest K
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935
- Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946 -- Correspondence
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 -- Correspondence
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 -- Correspondence
- Jackson, Robert Houghwout, 1892-1954 -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Correspondence
- Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964 -- Correspondence
- Murphy, Frank, 1890-1949 -- Correspondence
- Norris, George W. (George William), 1861-1944
- O'Connor, John J., Jr
- Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989 -- Correspondence
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence
- Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973 -- Correspondence
- Rowe, James H. (James Henry), 1909-1984 -- Correspondence
- Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961 -- Correspondence
- Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988 -- Correspondence
- Corcoran family
- United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
- United States. Supreme Court -- History
- 14th Air Force Association (U.S.)
- 14th Air Force Association (U.S.). Flying Tigers
- American International Underwriters
- American Law Institute
- Brown University
- China Defense Supplies
- Corcoran, Youngman and Rowe
- Cotton, Franklin, Wright and Gordon
- District of Columbia Bar
- Harvard University
- Sterling Drug
- Tennessee Gas Transmission Company
- United Fruit Company
- Mines and mineral resources
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Political campaigns
- Practice of law
- Taxation -- United States
- China
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
- United States -- History -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
- Lawyers
Restrictions apply.
Classified, in part.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, notes, reports, briefs, opinions, testimonies, family papers, business records, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly documenting Corcoran's private legal practice and his government service during the first two presidential terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Includes material pertaining to his service in the New Deal era as legislative draftsman, litigator, employment bureau director, and speech writer.
Subjects include politics, political reform, campaigns, domestic issues, foreign affairs, China, reorganization of the Supreme Court in 1937, Securities and Exchange Commission, taxation, the 14th Air Force Association and the Flying Tigers, and minerals and mining. Individuals, institutions, and organizations represented include Anna Chennault, Claire Lee Chennault, Benjamin V. Cohen, John Bowden Connally, Walter F. George, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lyndon B. Johnson, George W. Norris, John J. O'Connor, Jr., the American Law Institute, Brown University, District of Columbia Bar, and Harvard University.
Documents his work with Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon, New York, N.Y., (1927-1932) and with Corcoran, Youngman & Rowe (1941-1981). Includes material on clients such as China Defense Supplies, American International Underwriters, Mme. Paul DuPuy, Ernest K. Halbach, Sterling Drug, Tennessee Gas Transmission Company, and United Fruit Company.
Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Francis Biddle, Hugo Lafayette Black, Edward B. Burling, Anna Chennault, Benjamin V. Cohen, John Bowden Connally, William Denman, William O. Douglas, Edward C. Eicher, James Aloysisus Farley, Jerome Frank, Felix Frankfurter, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Hubert H. Humphrey, Harold L. Ickes, Joseph P. Kennedy, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, James McCauley Landis, Frank Murphy, Claude Pepper, Sam Rayburn, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Irving Rosenman, James H. Rowe, Walter Bedell Smith, and Stuart Symington.
Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Motion pictures and sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Most photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Illustrated leaf from a 19th century Persian book transferred to Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division.
Issues of Upton Sinclair's EPIC News transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Lawyer. Full name: Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. Born 1900; died 1981.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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