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Title: Edwin Wendell Pauley Papers
Date (inclusive): 1907-2001
Collection number: 435
Creator:
Pauley, Edwin Wendell, 1903-1981
Extent:
93 boxes (46.5 linear ft.)
6 shoe boxes
51 oversize boxes
Abstract: Edwin Wendell Pauley was born in 1903. In 1940 Pauley served as a member of the University of California, Board of Regents,
a position he kept for 30 years. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, photo albums, and news clippings of Edwin
Pauley with his family, friends, and numerous political figures of the twentieth century. Personal and political correspondence,
correspondence and memorabilia from the 1960 Democratic National Convention, awards for public services, biographical information
on Edwin Pauley, and books regarding political history are also included.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Stephen M. Pauley, Susan P. French, and Robert V. Pauley.
[Identification of item], Edwin Wendell Pauley Papers (Collection Number 435). Department of Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Processed by Piyapong Kong Phongpatanakhun, 2005.
Edwin Wendell Pauley was born in 1903 to Elbert L. Pauley and Ellen Van Petten. He received his Bachelor degree in Business
Administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 1923 and soon thereafter began a successful career as an oilman.
In 1940 Pauley served as a member of the University of California, Board of Regents, a position he kept for 30 years. He
also served as a delegate from California at the 1944 Democratic National Convention and by 1960 he was the treasurer of the
Democratic National Committee. After the war from 1945 to 1947, Pauley was the United States representative to the Allied
Reparations Committee, serving and advising Presidents Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. Pauley was first married to Norma Barrett.
They had a son, Edwin Wendell Pauley, Jr. He later married Bobette J. McHenry (Bobbe) and had a daughter and two sons: Susan
Jean, Stephen M., and Robert V. (Buzz). In 1947, Pauley and four other wealthy oilmen bought an island off the eastern coast
of Oahu in Kaneohe Bay. Eventually, Pauley bought the other four shares and became the sole owner calling it Coconut Island
where he and his family and friends spent many vacations together. After his death in 1981, the island was put up for sale
by his wife and children, and eventually became the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, photo albums, and news clippings of Edwin Pauley with his family, friends,
and numerous political figures of the twentieth century. The rest of the collection includes personal and political correspondence,
correspondence and memorabilia from the 1960 Democratic National Convention, awards for public services, biographical information
on Edwin Pauley, and books regarding political history.
Arranged in the following series:
- Awards
- Biography of EWP (O.W. Van Petten)
- Books
- Business
- EWP biography files
- Herb Childs - Interviews - History - Information for Edwin W. Pauley Book - Bekins Files
- Memorabilia
- News clippings
- News clippings albums
- Personal
- Photo albums
- Photographs
- Political files
- Postcards
- Scrapbooks
- U.S. politics
- University of California and U.S. Politics.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903- --Archives.
Businessmen --California --Archival resources.
Politicians --United States --Archival resources.
Edwin W. Pauley Papers, 1928-1996
. Available at the Harold S. Truman Library and Museum.