Papers of E. Barrett Prettyman, 1901-1971 (bulk 1945-1965).

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Papers of E. Barrett Prettyman, 1901-1971 (bulk 1945-1965).

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Correspondence, diaries, subject and case files, writings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to Prettyman's career as judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Subjects include the District of Columbia, Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, efforts to establish a legal aid agency for the District of Columbia, federal tax law, federal administrative law, appeal of the seizure of the steel industry by President Truman (Sawyer v. U.S. Steel), criminal law on insanity, and communist subversion. Includes papers (1873-1945) relating to the ministerial career of his father, Forrest Johnston Prettyman, especially the ecclesiastical trial of Methodist Episcopal Bishop James Cannon, Jr. Correspondents include Walter M. Bastian, David L. Bazelon, Warren E. Burger, John Anthony Danaher, Henry White Edgerton, Charles Fahy, Benjamin McKelway, Wilbur K. Miller, Henry L. Shepherd, Harold M. Stephens, and George Thomas Washington.

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Washington, George Thomas

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Bastian, Walter M. (Walter Maximillian), 1891-1975

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Bazelon, David L. (David Lionel), 1909-

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