Guide to the William Lockhart Clayton Papers, 1897-1966
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| Creator: | Clayton, William Lockhart |
| Title | William Lockhart Clayton - Papers, |
| Dates: | 1897-1966, Bulk dates 1934-1964 |
| ID | MS 7 |
| Extent | 34.5 linear feet |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Rice UniversityFondren Library Houston, TX 77251-1892 |
William Lockhart Clayton was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on February 7th, 1880. In August 1902 he was married to Susan Vaughan. He was a co-founder of Anderson, Clayton and Company, based in Houston, Texas. In 1918 Clayton was a member of the Committee on Cotton Distribution with the War Industries Board. From 1940 to 1942 he was the Vice President of the Export-Import Bank.
His career in government service began in 1942 with his appointment as Assistant Secretary of Commerce, followed by appointments as Administrator of the Surplus War Property Administration (1944), Assistant Secretary of State (1944-1945), Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-1947), and as head of the U.S. delegation at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, which took place in Havana, Cuba, in 1947.
Clayton also served in the following capacities: Alternate Governor, World Bank (1946-1949), Vice President, Atlantic Union Committee (1949-1961), member on the National Security Training Commission (1951-1954), Chairman, National Committee on Campaign Contributions and Expenditures (1960), member on the Board of Governors of the Atlantic Institute (1960), and as co-Chairman of the U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO (1961).
In the 1950s Clayton authored a number of books primarily dealing with economics and their political remifications. These included "We Must Trade Sovereignty For Freedom" (1950), "The Road To Peace" (1955), "What Price Oil?" (1958), and "We Are Losing The Cold War" (1958).
William L. Clayton died on February 9th, 1966, in Houston, Texas.
The Clayton collection, covering the years 1897 to 1966, consists of sixty-five boxes of originals and photocopies of business and personal correspondence, speeches, reports, and telegrams. Many of the photocopies are of original material held by other repositories. Also included are photographs, memorabilia, and some oversize material such as certificates of appointment.
The papers are arranged chronologically.
RESTRICTIONS AND LITERARY RIGHTS
No restrictions, but permission to publish materials from William Lockhart Clayton's papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
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| | Anderson, Clayton and Company. |
| | Marshall Plan. |
| | Statesmen--United States. |
| | Economic assistance, American--Europe--20th century. |
| | United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953. |
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Other significant William L. Clayton papers are at the National Archives, the Truman Library, and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Lesser holdings are at the Cossitt-Goodwyn branch of the Memphis/Shelby County Public Library. Some time in the early 1980s a small group of papers went to the Houston Metropolitan Center of the Houston Public Library when Anderson, Clayton and Co. was acquired by Quaker Oats.
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William Lockhart Clayton - Papers, 1897-1966, MS 7, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
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Dobney Project Correspondence
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| Box 1 | | | Correspondence with libraries related to Dobney project of collecting photocopies of WLC papers in other repositories |
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Papers
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| Box 2 | | | Papers, 1919-1929 |
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| Box 3 | | | Papers, 1930-1933 |
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| Box 4 | | | Papers, January-October 1934 |
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| Box 5 | | | Papers, November 1934-1935 |
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| Box 6 | | | Papers, 1936-1938 |
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| Box 7 | | | Papers, 1939 |
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| Box 8 | | | Papers, 1940 |
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| Box 9 | | | Papers, 1941 |
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| Box 10 | | | Papers, 1942 |
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| Box 11 | | | Papers, 1943 |
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| Box 12 | | | Papers, January-August 1944 |
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| Box 13 | | | Papers, September-December 1944 |
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| Box 14 | | | Papers, January-June 5, 1945 |
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| Box 15 | | | Papers, June 6 - September 15, 1945 |
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| Box 16 | | | Papers, September 16 - December, 1945 |
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| Box 17 | | | Papers, January-August 1946 |
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| Box 18 | | | Papers, September 1946 - May 1947 |
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| Box 19 | | | Papers, June-December 1947 |
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| Box 20 | | | Papers, January-October 1948 |
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| Box 21 | | | Papers, November 1948 - February 1949 |
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| Box 22 | | | Papers, March-September 1949 |
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| Box 23 | | | Papers, October 1949 - March 1950 |
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| Box 24 | | | Papers, April-December 1950 |
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| Box 25 | | | Papers, 1951 |
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| Box 26 | | | Papers, 1952 |
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| Box 27 | | | Papers, 1953-1955 |
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| Box 28 | | | Papers, 1956 - June 1958 |
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| Box 29 | | | Papers, June - September 15, 1958 |
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| Box 30 | | | Papers, September 16 - December 1958 |
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| Box 31 | | | Papers, January - April 1959 |
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| Box 32 | | | Papers, May-August 15 1959 |
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| Box 33 | | | Papers, August 17 - December 1959 |
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| Box 34 | | | Papers, January-May 1960 |
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| Box 35 | | | Papers, June-September 1960 |
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| Box 36 | | | Papers, October-December 1960 |
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| Box 37 | | | Papers, January-March 1961 |
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| Box 38 | | | Papers, April-June 1961 |
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| Box 39 | | | Papers, July - September 11, 1961 |
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| Box 40 | | | Papers, September 15 - December 1961 |
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| Box 41 | | | Papers, January-May 1962 |
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| Box 42 | | | Papers, June-December 1962 |
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| Box 43 | | | Papers, January-May 1963 |
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| Box 44 | | | Papers, June-October 1963 |
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| Box 45 | | | Papers, November 1963 - March 1964 |
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| Box 46 | | | Papers, April-December 1964 |
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| Box 47 | | | Papers, 1965 |
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| Box 48 | | | Papers, 1966 - January 1967 |
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| Box 49 | | | Photocopies of papers in Truman Library (unfoldered) |
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| Box 50 | | | Photocopies of WLC papers in Truman library (unfoldered) |
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Miscellaneous, 1929-1953
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| Box 51 | | | WLC/St. John Garwood personal corresp. 1929/30 - 1939/40 |
| | | Clayton (Will, Ellen) correspondence with the Hon. L.W. Douglas (photocopies) |
| | | French newspaper quotes on Clayton and Marshall Plan |
| | | London Times index to articles on Clayton 1947 |
| | | Newspaper clippings |
| | | Notes on Clayton's South American trip February 1937 |
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| Box 52 | | | WLC-related photocopies and originals. Some grouped and labeled by category (e.g., “Misc. A 1950- 53,” “Congress 1952”, “ACCO - to be cataloged...,” “TL -not to be cataloged”) |
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Memorabilia
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| Box 53 | | | Family and WLC memorabilia |
| | e.g. passports, daughters' early drawings and notes, photographs Corresp, etc., re J.M. Clayton death 7/7/26 |
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Ellen Garwood
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| Box 54 | | | Correspondence (original and photocopy) to and from Ellen Garwood (incls. Atlantic Union, Clayton Center, recollections of WLC) |
| | | Transcripts (photocopy) of Ellen Garwood's interviews |
| | | Ellen Garwood notes from State Department files |
| | | Correspondence between State Dept. and Ellen Garwood |
| | | "Notes of W.L. Garwood" |
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Copies of Related Holdings
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| Box 55 | | | Microfilm: |
| | | Truman library, 5 reels: "Papers of WLC", Chron. file: ; Alpha. file - World Trade Fdtn.; "Papers of WLC", Papers of. E.C. Garwood, Official File, President's Personal File, Bill File. June 1, 1945-1964 |
| | | Library of Congress, 1 reel, no R.G. # |
| | | Princeton Library, 1 reel, no R.G.#. |
| | | National Archives, 4 reels. "Selected Documents Relating to WLC from the RFC, Commerce and Interior Records"; (R.G. 234, 40, 48); untitled, R.G. 16, 83, 145 |
| | | Audiotape, 4 reels. Will Clayton, Columbia University Oral History |
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Senate Hearing
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| Box 56 | | | Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the U.S. Senate... to Investigate the Causes of the Decline of Cotton Prices, vol. 1-13 |
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| Box 57 | | | Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the U.S. Senate... to Investigate the Causes of the Decline of Cotton Prices vol. 14-19 |
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Correspondence
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| Box 58 | | | Correspondence (photocopies) W. L. Clayton to Sue Vaughan, Sept. 1899 - Jan. 1901 |
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| Box 59 | | | Correspondence (photocopies) W. L. Clayton to Sue Vaughan, Feb. 1901 - May 1902 |
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| Box 60 | | | Correspondence (photocopies) W. L. Clayton to Sue Vaughan, June - August 1902 |
| | | W.L. Clayton personal business correspondence and miscellany (photocopies), 1898-99, 1903 |
| | | W. L. Clayton correspondence (photocopies) to Hattye Vaughan, 1900 |
| | | Sue Vaughan correspondence (photocopies) to W.L. Clayton, 1897-99 |
| | | Sue Vaughan correspondence (photocopies) to W.L. Clayton, Jan. 1900 - April 1901 |
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| Box 61 | | | Sue Vaughan correspondence (photocopies) to W.L. Clayton, May 1901 - May 1902 |
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| Box 62 | | | Sue Vaughan correspondence (photocopies) to W.L. Clayton, June - Aug. 1902 |
| | | Sue Vaughan correspondence (photocopies) to W.L. Clayton, 1902, 1904 |
| | | Misc. correspondence (photocopies) to Sue Vaughan and W.L. Clayton, 1898-1904 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), ca. 1895-1903 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), 1917-19 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), 1920-22 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), 1923 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), 1924-26 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), 1927-28 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), 1929-30 |
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| Box 63 | | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), 1931-32 |
| | | Personal family correspondence (photocopies), n.d. (ca. 1920-40) |
| | | Personal family correspondence (originals), 1907-63, n.d. |
| | | Personal correspondence (photocopies) to Ellen Garwood from parents, 1940-57. |
| | | WLC business, personal, and financial correspondence and records (original and photocopy), 1897-1958 |
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Miscellaneous, 1899-1904
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| | | Misc. news items, announcements, etc. (photocopies), ca. 1899-1904 |
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Personal Financial Records
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| | | Financial records re renovation of Clayton's Southmore residence, 1917 |
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Biographical Material
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| Box 64 | | | Ross Joseph Pritchard thesis, Will Clayton: A Study of Business Statesmanship..., 1955 |
| | | The Reminiscences of William Lockhart Clayton, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, 1962 |
| | | Photocopied materials from Truman Library; Diplomatic Branch, Civil Archives Div., Nat'l Archives; and Harry Hopkins Papers, Sherwood Collection, FDR Library. |
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| Box 65 | | | Typescript of Gregory Fossedal's WLC biography published in 1993 as Our Finest Hour. (March 1991, |
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Materials in Vault
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| | | Jewelry (watch fob, stickpin, ring mounting) |
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Oversized Materials
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| | | Photos, drawings of WLC |
| | | Certificates of appointment (Ass't Secretary of State, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, U.S. Alternate Governor of International Monetary Fund and of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Deputy Member to Conference of Food and Agricultural Organization of U.N.) |
| | | Certificate of appreciation for assistance in American Program for the Brussels Exhibition, 1958 |
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