Papers, 1893-1957 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1893-1957 (inclusive).

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Contains personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts; classnotes Merriam took as a student; memoranda; election campaign material; minutes; reports; scholarly and political speeches; articles; diaries; book reviews; degrees; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. Materials record Merriam's influence as academic and politician and his vision of national policy-making and social reform, the first fifty years of the University of Chicago, and early twentieth-century Chicago politics. Correspondents include Grace and Edith Abbott, Jane Addams, William Benton, Louis Brownlow, William A. Dunning, Harold Gosnell, Luther Gulick, Harold Ickes, Hiram Johnson, A.C. Krey, Harold Lasswell, Beardsley Ruml, and Leonard D. White. Topics include Merriam's activities in the Progressive Party, his interests in urban planning, the development of a behavioral approach to political science, the establishment of the University of Chicago as a center for social science research, and the formation of the Public Administration Clearing House. The Chicago City Council, scholarly organizations, federal agencies, and foundations with which Merriam was affiliated are also represented in the collection, including the Chicago Commission on City Expenditures, the Chicago Crime Commission, the Social Science Research Council, the President's Research Committee on Social Trends, the National Resources Planning Board, and the Spelman Fund.

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

United States. National Resources Committee

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Ruml, Beardsley, 1894-1960

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Educator and businessman. A.B., Dartmouth College, 1915. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1917. Director, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, 1922-1929. Dean of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1931-1933; professor of education, 1931-1933. Treasurer, R.H. Macy & Company, 1934-1945; Chairman of the Board, 1945-1951. From the description of Papers, 1817- 1960. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246985 Beardsley Ruml (1894-1960), probab...

Gulick, Luther Halsey, 1892-1993

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1892 (January 17): Born, Osaka, Japan 1914: B.A., Oberlin College 1920: Ph.D, Columbia University 1920-1960: Staff Member and Director, New York Bureau of Municipal Research 1920-1962 President, Institute of Public Administration 1931-1942 Eaton Professor of Municipal Science and Administration, Columbia University 1936-1938 Served on President's Committee on Administrative Management (better known as the Brownlow Committee) 1939-1946 Member of staff or consultant, War Department, War Production...

Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939

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Edith Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, in 1876. She received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1901 and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1905. From 1906 to 1908, she continued post-graduate studies in economics and political science at the University of London. In 1908, Edith returned to Chicago and became a resident of Hull House until 1920. Between 1908 and 1920, she served as Associate Director of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy at the...

Gosnell, Harold F. (Harold Foote), 1896-1997

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Political scientist, educator, and government consultant. From the description of Harold Foote Gosnell papers, 1931-1962 (bulk 1937-1959). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981982 Biographical Note 1896, Dec. 24 Born, Lockport, N.Y. 1918 A.B., University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. ...

United States. National Planning Board

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Krey, August C. (August Charles), 1887-1961

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August Charles Krey was born in Germany on June 29, 1887. At an early age, his family immigrated to Wisconsin. All of his degrees were earned from the University of Wisconsin between 1907 and 1914. In the same period, he taught high school in Milwaukee. In 1910 he was an instructor at the University of Texas and in 1912 he took an appointment at the University of Illinois. In 1913 he came to the University of Minnesota where he spent the remainder of his career teaching history. In 1915 he becam...

Spelman Fund

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Merriam, Charles Edward, 1874-1953

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Charles E. Merriam was a Political scientist and politician. A.B., Lenox College, 1893; A.B., State University of Iowa, 1895. A.M., Columbia University, 1898; Ph.D., 1900. Docent in political science, University of Chicago, 1900-1902; associate, 1902-1903; instructor, 1903-1905; assistant professor, 1905-1907; associate professor, 1907-1911; professor, 1911-1940; chairman, Department of Political Science, 1923-1940; Morton D. Hull Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Chicago alderman, 1...

Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952

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Lawyer and U.S. secretary of the interior. From the description of Harold L. Ickes papers, 1815-1969 (bulk 1933-1951). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980130 Harold Ickes (1874-1952) was a United States administrator and politician. He served as Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and afterwards he became a syndicated columnist writing on political topics. From the guide to the Harold Ickes ...

Public Administration Clearing House

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Benton, William, 1900-1973

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Senator, publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481066 From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721364 Art collector, politician; Chicago, Ill. Publisher of ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, Vice-President of the University of...

Social Science Research Council (U.S.)

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Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957

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Edith Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1876, daughter of the state's first Lieutenant Governor, Othman A. Abbott. She received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1901, her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1905, and spent the year 1906-1907 in post-graduate study at the University of London. Upon her return to Chicago in 1908, she became a resident of Hull House, where she remained until 1920. During this same period, 1908-1920, she served as Associate Director of the ...

Brownlow, Louis, 1879-1963

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Journalist and public administrator. Director of the Public Administration Clearing House and, earlier, president of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia. From the description of Louis Brownlow speech, 1941 June 2. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 230814504 Louis Brownlow (1879-1963), journalist and political scientist, wrote The President and the Presidency in 1949, A Passion for Politics in 1955, A Passion for Anonymity in 1958, and Anat...

Eaton, Charles S.

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Dunning, William Archibald, 1857-1922

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Professor at Columbia University. From the description of William Archibald Dunning records, 1900-1920. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 493895347 Professor of history and political philosophy at Columbia University. From the description of William Archibald Dunning papers, [ca. 1781]-1922]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 493895366 ...

United States. National Resources Planning Board

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Chicago Commission on City Expenditures

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Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight), 1902-1978

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Harold Dwight Lasswell was a political theorist, author, and professor of law and political science. Lasswell received a Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1926. From 1939-1946 Lasswell served as director of War Communications Research at the Library of Congress, and from 1946-1970 he taught law and political science at Yale University. In his later career Lasswell became increasingly interested in policy sciences and the Policy Sciences Center in New York City. From the descript...

White, Leonard Dupee, 1891-1958

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The Chicago Citizens Police Committee was active from 1929 to 1931. Its primary purpose was to investigate the Chicago Police Department. The results of the study were described in The Chicago Police Problems, which was published in 1931 by The University of Chicago. The Committee consisted of eight members who were selected from The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and The Chicago Crime Commission. The first Chairman of the Committee w...

Chicago Crime Commission

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