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Title: Will Clayton Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1896-1990
Collection number: 88015
Creator:
Clayton, Will (William Lockhart), 1880-1966
Extent:
18 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
(7.9 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, interview transcripts, speeches and writings, memoranda, notes, printed
matter, and photographs, relating to post-World War II American foreign policy,
especially formulation of the Marshall Plan, international trade policy, and Atlantic
unity; the cotton industry; and family affairs. Includes original family correspondence,
especially between Will Clayton and his fiancee Susan Vaughan, 1897-1902; copies of State
Department documents and other papers; and papers of Ellen Garwood, daughter and
biographer of Will Clayton, relating to her father.
Language:
English.
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[Identification of item], Will Clayton papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1988.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953
Economic assistance, American--Europe
Commerce
United States--Foreign relations--Europe
Europe--Foreign relations--United States
Cotton trade--United States
United States. Dept. of State
United States--Foreign relations
Europe
Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe
Statesmen--United States
| 1880 Feb. 7 | Born, Tupelo, Mississippi |
| 1902 Aug. 14 | Married Susan Vaughan |
| 1904 | Co-founder, Anderson, Clayton & Co., Houston, Texas |
| 1918 | Member, Committee on Cotton Distribution, War Industries Board |
| 1940-1942 | Vice-President, Export-Import Bank |
| 1942-1944 | Assistant Secretary of Commerce |
| 1944 | Administrator, Surplus War Property Administration |
| 1944-1945 | Assistant Secretary of State |
| 1945-1947 | Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs |
| 1947 | Head, U.S. Delegation, United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, Havana, Cuba |
| 1946-1949 | Alternate Governor, World Bank |
| 1949-1961 | Vice President, Atlantic Union Committee |
| 1950 | Author, We Must Trade Sovereignty for Freedom |
| 1951-1954 | Member, National Security Training Commission |
| 1955 | Author, The Road to Peace |
| 1958 | Author, What Price Oil? |
| 1958 | Author, We Are Losing the Cold War |
| 1960 | Chairman, National Committee on Campaign Contributions and Expenditures |
| 1960- | Board of Governors, Atlantic Institute |
| 1961 | Co-Chairman, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO |
| 1966 Feb. 9 | Died, Houston, Texas |