Register of the Will Clayton papers, 1896-1990
Register of the Will Clayton Papers, 1896-1990
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- Date Completed:
- 1991 (revised)
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- Xiuzhi Zhou
| 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 |
SERIES DESCRIPTION
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1799-1986.
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SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1925-1986.
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CORRESPONDENCE, 1896-1978.
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Access Information
ELLEN CLAYTON GARWOOD BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1953-1989.
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SUBJECT FILE, 1898-1990.
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AUDIOVISUAL FILE, c. 1899-c. 1960.
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CONTAINER LIST
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1799-1986
General
General. Notes, biographical sketches, itineraries, clippings, and miscellany, 1903-1986
Family background. Correspondence, legal documents, and genealogy, 1799-1984
Susan Vaughan Clayton (Mrs. William Clayton). Certificate, biographical sketches, printed material, resolution, correspondence, and miscellany, 1937-1978
Articles. List, speech, clippings, serial issue, and other printed material (includes Will Clayton: Economic Statesman, by William L. Garwood, Jr.), 1937-1978
Awards and honors. Correspondence, speeches (by George C. McGhee), newsletter, pamphlet, and resolutions, 1949-1977
Testimonials and memorials. Pamphlet, printed material, programs, resolutions, correspondence, and a serial issue, 1928-1983
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1925-1986
General
General. Notes, interviews conducted by Ellen Clayton Garwood, partial list of speeches, clippings, and miscellany, 1947-1986
Atlantic Union. Clippings, 1949-1950
Common markets. Typescript and printed copies describing statements by Clayton, 1960-1963
Cotton. Photocopies of printed articles from the ACCO Press, 1930-1937
Interview, 1925 Jan. 8. Typescript and letter
Testimony, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, 1936 April. Printed copy
"America's Stake in World Trade," 1943 Oct. 25. Printed copy
"How Will We Dispose of Surplus War Stocks?" Philadelphia Inquirer, 1944 April 23. Printed copy
Letter to the Editor, Life (unpublished?), 1944 Sept. 16. Relates to surplus government property. Mimeograph copy with related letter
Speech, 1944 April 30. Relates to surplus government property. Typescript
Speech, 1944 Oct. 19. Relates to post-World War II economic development. Typescript
"Comment on Dean Hoover's Study of International Trade and Domestic Employment," 1944 Nov. 18. Typescript
Statement, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1944 Dec. 12. Relates to confirmation as Assistant Secretary of State. Typescript
Statement at Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, 1945 Feb. 27. Press release
Speech, 1945 March 17. Relates to post-World War II foreign economic policy. Press release
Speech, 1945 March 24. Relates to post-World War II foreign economic policy. Press release
Testimony, House Ways and Means Committee, 1945 April 20. Relates to reciprocal trade agreements. Printed transcript
"The Foreign Economic Policy of the State Department," 1945 May 21. Press release
"Is UNRRA Doing Its Job?" 1945 Oct. 20. Printed transcript of a radio broadcast
"Proposals for Expansion of World Trade and Employment," 1945 Nov. Typescript excerpt with cover letter to James Byrnes
Testimony, Senate Appropriations Committee, 1945 Nov. 16. Holograph copy of transcript
"Answers to Arguments against the British Loan," c. 1946. Typescript
Speech, 1946 Jan. 21. Relates to a proposed loan to Britain. Typescript
"U.S. Information Service in Yugoslavia," Department of State Bulletin, 1946 Oct. 6. Printed copy
"The Foreign Economic Policy of the United States," Department of State Bulletin, 1946 Nov. 24. Printed copy
"Trade Agreement Negotiations," Department of State Bulletin, 1947 Jan. 26. Printed copy
Memorandum, 1947 March 5. Relates to post-World War II foreign economic policy. Holograph (photocopy)
Interview, 1947 Nov. 22. Relates to proposed international trade organization. Press release
Interview, 1947 Nov. 26. Relates to proposed international trade organization. Press release
Speech at United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, 1947 Nov. 27. Typescripts and memorandum
Statement, Houston Post, 1949 April. Relates to Atlantic Union. Printed copies
"The Atlantic Pact is a Natural and Necessary Step on the Road to Federal Union," 1949 June. Printed copy
Letter to the Editor, Freedom and Union, 1949 Oct. Printed copy
"The Economic Position of Western Europe Demands Complete Integration either with North America or Communist Russia," c. 1950. Typescript
Speech, 1950 April 25. Relates to a proposed Japan International Christian University. Mimeograph
Speech, 1950 June 2. Relates to the Atlantic Union. Typescript and clipping
Memorandum, 1950 Aug. 25. Relates to Atlantic Union and the Korean War. Typescript with cover letter
Speech, Texas State Legislature, 1951 March 6. Typescript
"Destiny of America is Linked Insolubly with West Europe," Wichita Sunday Beacon, 1951 March 18. Printed copy
"The Road to Peace," 1951 April 1. Printed copy
Universal Military Training: Foundation of Enduring National Strength, 1951 Oct. Pamphlet
Testimony, U.S. Congress, 1952 Jan. 15. Relates to National Security Training Corps Act. Mimeograph copy
Reply to Walter Lippmann, 1952 Feb. 26. Relates to U.S. foreign policy. Mimeograph
Letter to the Editor, Houston Post, 1958 Dec. 4. Printed copy
Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 1959 Aug. 2. Printed copy
"Foreign Policy," 1960. Typescript, correspondence, and a typescript copy of a clipping
"Tariffs and Trade," Western Business Review, 1960 Aug. Printed copy
"Uniquely Equipped," c. 1961. Printed copy relating to the Atlantic Council
Memorandum, 1961 Jan. 5. Relates to international trade. Typescript
"A New Look at Foreign Economic Policy," 1961 Oct. 23. Joint statement with Christian Herter to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Printed copy with letter
"Atlantic Convention of NATO Nations," 1962 Jan. 10. Mimeograph copy
"U.S. Relations with the Common Market," 1962 Feb. 20. Mimeograph copy
"U.S. Trade and the Common Market," Headline Series, 1962 July-Aug. Printed copy
"The European Common Market," Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association, 1962 Nov. Printed copy
"GATT, the Marshall Plan, and OECD," Political Science Quarterly, 1963 Dec. Printed copy
Statement, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1964 Jan. 16. Mimeograph copy
Excerpts from congressional testimony relating to Atlantic Union, Freedom and Union, 1966 April-June. Printed copies
The Testament of Will Clayton, 1968. Pamphlet
CORRESPONDENCE, 1896-1978
General
General
Letters by William Clayton and others. Includes material relating to the Garwood biography, 1896-1965
Letters to Susan Vaughan Clayton, 1901-1902
Letters to Ellen Clayton Garwood. Miscellaneous, 1944-1969.
SEE ALSO: GARWOOD BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL FILE/ Correspondence
Letters relating to William Clayton (primarily sympathy), 1966
Clayton family
General, 1898-1972
Clayton, Benjamin (brother), 1931-1971
Clayton, Martha Fletcher Burdine (mother), 1896-1905
Clayton, Susan Vaughan (wife). Outgoing
1899 Sept.-Dec.
1900 Jan.-Aug.
1900 Sept.-1901 Feb.
1901 Feb.-Sept.
1901 Oct.-1902 Aug.
Clayton, Susan Vaughan. Incoming
Undated
1897-1900 June
1900 July-1901 April
1901 May-Dec.
1902 Jan.-May
1902 June-1922
1923-1940
Garwood, Ellen Clayton (daughter), 1918-1966
McAshan, Susan Clayton, Burdine Clayton Johnson, and Julia Clayton Baker (daughters), 1919-1956
Alsop, Joseph and Stewart, 1958-1959
Baruch, Bernard, 1955
Bohlen, Charles, 1958-1968
Bradley, Omar N., 1966-1967
Burleson, Omar, 1962
Bush, George, 1968
Church, Frank, 1967-1968
Collado, Emilio G., 1958
Connally, John, 1966
Drummond, Roscoe, 1962
Duke, Angier Biddle, 1962
Dulles, Allen, 1966
Eastland, James O., 1978
Fowler, Henry, 1965
Fulbright, J. William, 1956-1966
Harriman, Averell, 1966
Herter, Christian, 1959-1966
Hey, W.A. van den, 1947
Humphrey, Hubert H., 1965
Irvine, Reed, 1978
Javits, Jacob, 1965
Johnson, Lyndon, 1950-1965
Kefauver, Estes, 1959-1961
Kennan, George, 1958
Kennedy, John F., 1962
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1965-1966
MacArthur, Douglas, 1958
McGhee, George, 1970
McCloy, John J., 1966
Mahon, George, 1962
Marshall, Katherine (Mrs. George C.), 1958
Mason, Edward, 1969
Monnet, Jean, 1959-1962
Murphy, Robert, 1964-1965
Nitze, Paul H., 1958
Norstad, Lauris, 1966
Poague, W.R., 1962
Rayburn, Sam, 1955-1961
Roper, Elmo. Includes typescript and printed articles and letters from Hubert Humphrey and James Reston, 1962-1968
Rostow, Walt W., 1969
Rusk, Dean, 1960-1966
Thomas, Albert, 1964-1965
Tower, John, 1965-1969
Truman, Harry S., 1955-1970
Vandenberg, Arthur, 1948
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1947-1948. Includes typescript and printed article
White, William S., 1959-1961
Yarborough, Ralph W., 1959-1966
ELLEN CLAYTON GARWOOD BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1953-1989
General. Promotional material, clippings, printed article, and miscellany, 1959-1972
Correspondence
General, 1954-1989
Garwood biography, Will Clayton: A Short Biography, 1953-1987
Rice University. Relates to the collection of William Clayton papers and their publication as The Public Papers of William L. Clayton, 1966-1974
Notes. Background material for Mrs. Garwood's book, c. 1957-1967;
SEE ALSO: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS/Interviews
SUBJECT FILE, 1898-1990
General. Clippings, 1961
Atlantic Union
Correspondence. Clarence Streit, Walden Moore, and others, 1949-1977
General. Clippings, printed articles (by Max Eastman and others), pamphlets, leaflet, programs, speech, newsletters, notes, serial issues, and miscellany, 1949-1969
Committee on the Present Danger. Clippings, speeches, and membership list, 1950-1951
Cotton. Statement, history of Anderson, Clayton & Co., printed articles, clippings, serial issues, reports, correspondence, notes, and miscellany, 1898-1979
European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan)
General. Memoranda and notes by Will Clayton, speeches, serial issue, letters, printed material, and bulletins, 1947-1990 with Dean Acheson, Will Clayton, Emilio Collado, Lewis Douglas, Livingston Merchant, Norman Ness, Paul Nitze, Arthur Stevens, James Stillwell, Leroy Stinebower, and Ivan White, 1962
Columbia University, Oral History Project. Interviews
Russia. Notes by Will Clayton, c. 1922-1923
Trade
General. Letter to the editor by Ellen Clayton Garwood, pamphlets, report, letter, speeches, printed articles, press release, memorandum, and clippings, 1947-1986
United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, Havana, Cuba, 1947-1948. Clippings, position papers, a copy of the charter agreement establishing the International Trade Organization, and a printed article ("The Promise of the World Trade Charter," by Clair Wilcox) 1947-1949
Wilson, Harold. Letter, program and text of three lectures given for the William Clayton lecture series at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1971
World War II. Printed article relating to war surplus, and book reviews, 1944-1960
AUDIOVISUAL FILE, c. 1899-c. 1960.
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