Robert M. Ball papers, 1935-2007.

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Robert M. Ball papers, 1935-2007.

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Papers, 1935-2007, of Robert Ball, a career official and commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), who guided the development of the social security system from 1962 to 1973. As commissioner, Ball presided over several reorganizations of the SSA, major expansions of benefits, and the passage of the Medicare Act in 1965, and also served as a member of a number of Advisory Councils for Social Security (1938-1997) and of the President's National Commission on Social Security Reform, which led to a number of amendments to the Social Security Act in 1983. The papers primarily document Ball's career in the SSA, but also concern his many other social insurance and social welfare policy-related activities. The greater part of Ball's career involved social security, and he held a number of posts within the SSA prior to his assumption of the duties of commissioner, including the Head of the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance (1936-1946); assistant director for program analysis (1949-1952); deputy director (1952-1962); and acting director (1953). He was also a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, is the author or co-author of several books, and has spoken extensively throughout his career. Included are daybooks, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, subject files, notes, speeches, congressional testimony, writings, clippings, photographs, and sound recordings. Principal correspondents include Arthur Altmeyer, Anthony Celebrezze, Wilbur Cohen, John Conyers, Robert Finch, John Gardner, Wilbur Mills, Robert Myers, Elliot Richardson, and Elizabeth Wickenden. Ball was also an active member of many organizations including the American Public Welfare Association, the Center for the Study of Social Policy, the International Social Security Association, and the National Academy of Public Administration.

57.7 c.f.,75 tape recordings,18 photographs, and1 negative.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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