James Kerr Pollock papers, 1920-1968.

Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

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Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, born Dean Gooderham Acheso, in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11, 1893. After being educated at Yale University (1912-1915) and Harvard Law School (1915-18) he became private secretary to the Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis from 1919 to 1921. A supporter of the Democratic Party, Acheson worked for a law firm in Washington, D.C., before President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. During World War II (1941),...

Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Ha...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Political Science

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Department formally established in 1910 within the College of Literature, Science and the Arts; offers coursework in American government and politics, comparative government and politics, world politics, political theory, public policy, public law, and political science research methodology. From the description of Dept. of Political Science (University of Michigan) records, 1972-1988. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 79910718 ...

DeFoe, Murl Holcomb, 1879-

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Editor of the Charlotte, Michigan, R̲e̲p̲u̲b̲l̲i̲c̲a̲n̲ T̲r̲i̲b̲u̲n̲e̲, personal secretary to Governor Chase S. Osborn, and member of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. From the description of Murl Holcomb Defoe papers, 1920-1960. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423312 ...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Brown, Prentiss M. (Prentiss Marsh), 1889-1973

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Democratic Congressman and U. S. Senator from St. Ignace, Michigan. From the description of Prentiss Marsh Brown papers, 1902-1973. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419930 Prentiss M. Brown was born at St. Ignace, Michigan on June 18, 1889. He was the son of James J. and Minnie Brown, his father having been at one time Detroit city attorney and later prosecuting attorney of Cheboygan and Mackinac counties. Brown was educated in the St. Ignace scho...

American political science association

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Brownrigg, William, 1893-1969.

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William Brownrigg was a native of Manistee, Michigan. Following graduation from the University of Michigan, Brownrigg devoted his career to civil service reform, serving at one time as the executive officer of the California State Personnel Board before being selected as Michigan's personnel director in the gubernatorial administration of Frank Murphy in the mid-1930s. When Murphy came to Washington DC as Attorney General, Brownrigg was selected to head the justice department's new Division of P...

Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971

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Ralph Bunche was Secretary of United Nations. From the description of Letter (typewritten) to Abraham Stavsky, 1967, February 28. (Regent University). WorldCat record id: 49291995 Ralph Johnson Bunche b 1904; educated at University of California, Los Angeles (AB), Harvard University (AM, PhD); Chairman, Dept of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC, 1928-1950; Director, Trusteeship Department, Unted Nations, 1946-1954; acting UN Mediator on Palestine, 1948-1949...

United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

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The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) was an independent, bipartisan intergovernmental agency established by Public Law 86-380 in 1959. The ACIR was disbanded in September of 1996. ACIR's original mission was "to strengthen the American federal system and improve the ability of federal, state, and local governments to work together cooperatively, efficiently, and effectively." From the description of Records of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Rela...

Michigan. Constitutional Convention (1961-1962)

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Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978

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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist, educator and public servant. Conant taught chemistry at Harvard from 1917-1933; he served as Harvard's president from 1933-1953. He was the national director of defense research from 1941-1945, and was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb. He continued as President of Harvard until 1953, at which time he was made United States High Commissioner for Germany. When allied military occupation of Germany ended in 1955, Conant became the U.S. A...

Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967

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Konrad Adenauer was born in 1876 in Cologne, Germany. He was chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963. He died in 1967. From the description of Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581751 Chancellor of West Germany, 1949-1963. From the description of Konrad Adenauer miscellaneous papers, 1953-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869086 Politician, statesman and C...

Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948

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American historian and educator From the guide to the Charles Austin Beard letters, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Historian, political scientist. From the description of Austin Charles Beard letters, 1929-1939. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279213 Charles Austin Beard was born in 1874 and died in 1948. He was a political science professor and historian at Columbia Univer...

Republican Party (Mich.)

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Pollock, James K. (James Kerr), 1898-1968

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Professor of political science at University of Michigan, special adviser to U.S. Military Government in Germany, 1945-1848, special adviser to U.S. High Commissioner in Germany in 1950, member of Hoover Commission on the Re-Organization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, 1947-1949, and participant in the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1961-1962. From the description of James Kerr Pollock papers, 1920-1968. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80055237...

Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951

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Randolph Greenfield Adams was an Assistant Professor in History at Duke University from 1921-1923. From the description of Randolph Greenfield Adams Papers, undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 227206656 Director of William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. From the description of Randolph G. Adams papers, 1923-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80292571 From the description of Randolph G. Adams papers...

Bentley, Alvin M. (Alvin Morell), 1918-1969

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Businessman, Foreign Service officer, and U.S. Representative, of Owosso, Michigan. From the description of Alvin M. Bentley papers, 1945-1969. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422291 Alvin M. Bentley, III, the only child of Alvin M. Bentley, Jr., and Helen Webb Bentley, was born in Portland, Maine August 30, 1918, three months before his father died while serving in France during World War I. Although fatherless, Bentley was not penniless for he ...

Clay, Lucius D. (Lucius Dubignon), 1897-1978

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Lucius DuBignon Clay (1897-1978) was born in Marietta, Georgia, the son of U.S. Senator Alexander Stephen and Sarah (Francis) Clay. After graduating from West Point in 1918, he commissioned in the Army Corps of Engineers. From 1937 to 1938, he was chief engineer under General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. During his tenure with the War Department General Staff, he made brigadier general in March 1942 and major general nine months later. From 1944 to 1945, he served as deputy director for...

Comstock, William Alfred, 1877-1949

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The Republic was an association of Syracuse High School students who agreed to meet regularly to discuss current events under the guidance of William K. Wickes, a teacher at the school. From the description of Syracuse High School Republic scrapbook, 1892. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155416535 Alpena, Michigan, businessman, University of Michigan regent and Democratic governor of Michigan, 1933-1934. From the description of William ...

Ackley, Gardner

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Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915-1998) worked for the Office of Price Administration in Washington, D.C. from 1941 to 1943 and 1944 to 1946, and he worked for the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1944. He was a member of the Presidents' Council of Economic Advisers from 1962 to 1968, and chairman from 1964 to 1968. Ackley also served as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1968 to 1969. From the description of Ackley, Gardner, 1915-1998 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administrati...

Michigan Merit System Association.

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Bricker, John W. (John William), 1893-1986

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of John W. Bricker : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528156 John Bricker (1893 - 1986), 54th Governor of Ohio from 1939 to 1945. From the guide to the John W. Bricker letter to John F. Ahlers, February 5, 1940, (Ohio University) ...

Dana, Samuel Trask,, 1883-1978

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Professor of forestry and dean of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, member of the Hoover Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, and fellow and president of the Society of American Foresters. From the description of Samuel Trask Dana papers, 1893-1970. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423096 Samuel T. Dana, a specialist in forestry and forest economics, was the first dean of ...

Cudlip, William B., 1904-1988

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William B. Cudlip was born in Iron Mountain, Michigan on March 4, 1904. He attended Swarthmore College (1921-1922), then graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1926. After being admitted to the bar of Michigan, he joined the firm of Campbell, Bulkley & Ledyard in Detroit. He became a partner in the firm in 1933 and in the firm's successor, Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip. In 1961-1962, Cudlip was a delegate to the Michigan Constitutional Convention. In 1963, he was el...

Couzens, James, 1872-1936

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U.S. senator from Michigan, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and industrialist. From the description of James Couzens papers, 1903-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982271 Detroit Mayor and civic leader, U.S. Senator, Ford Motor Co. executive James Couzens was born in Chatham, Ont., Aug. 26, 1872, son of James J. and Emma (Clift) Couzens; married Margaret A. Manning, Aug. 31, 1898. Began the manufacture of automobiles in 1903 ; vice-president, genera...

United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1947-1949)

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Historical Note The First Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, chaired by former President Herbert Hoover, was established by act of July 7, 1947 (61 Stat. 246). The commission studied and investigated the organization and methods of operation of the Executive branch of the federal government, and recommended organization changes to promote economy, efficiency, and improved service. Operating through functiona...

Dickinson, Luren Dudley, 1859-1943

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Bromage, Arthur W. (Arthur Watson), 1904-1979

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Professor of political science at the University of Michigan, specialist in problems of municipal government and administration. From the description of Arthur W. Bromage papers, 1917-1979 (bulk 1935-1975). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419179 Arthur Watson Bromage was born in East Windsor, Connecticut on February 27, 1904. He attended Enfield High School in Connecticut from 1917 to 1921. His undergraduate education took place at Wesleyan Unive...

Adams, James P. (James Pickwell), 1895-1969.

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Brandt, Willy, 1913-1992

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Connable, Alfred B. (Alfred Barnes), 1904-

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Republican regent of the University of Michigan. From the description of Alfred B. Connable papers, 1925-1992 (bulk 1941-1957). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423217 Alfred B. Connable, Jr. served as a regent of the University of Michigan for sixteen years beginning in 1941. Connable, who was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on February 20, 1904, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1925. After completing a master's degree in business adminis...