Administrative files, 1930-1935.

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Administrative files, 1930-1935.

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The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the administering of executive decisions and actions. This series consists of the administrative files of Governor Benjamin Meek Miller. It contains correspondence, reports, photographs, pamphlets, publications, and telegrams. The records consist of correspondence and other material regarding the activities of the numerous state departments and agencies. Among the state agencies and organizations that reflect significant attention in the Governor's records are the Board of Administration and its subagency, the Convict Department; the Child Welfare Department; the Highway Department; the Public Service Commission; and the Tax Commission. Governor Miller's administrative files contain records regarding legislation and legislativ eissues, appointments, public relations activities, and state institutions that were later maintained in a separate filing system by his successors. Among the issues documented in these files are education, taxation and the income tax amendment, social welfare programs, pensions, highways, coal miners strikes, cotton acreage control, the repeal of the 18th Amendment (ending prohibition), and litigation regarding the salaries of public officials. In addition, there is considerable documentation of the relief and recovery programs establishe din the state after the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 March. These programs were in response to the massive unemployment brought on by the Great Depression. The records document the National Recovery Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and the Alabama Relief Administration. The files contain correspondence with Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and Jugh S. Johnson, the administrator of the National Recovery Administration. There is also correspondence with Alabama Senatro John H. Bankhead. This series also contains correspondence from Alabamians requesting jobs, money, or any type of assistance available. Miller's trip to Washington, D.C. to attend Roosevelt's inauguration is also documented in these records. Some of the files reflect incidents or issues that began during the first administration of Governor Bibb Graves.

40 cubic ft. (40 records center cartons).

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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