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Overview

Agency History

Scope and Contents of the Records

Arrangement of the Records

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Description of Series

Attorney General Price Daniel records, 1934, 1938-1941, 1944-1962, 1969-1970, 1978, 1986-1987, bulk 1947-1952,

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas Attorney-General's Office:

An Inventory of Attorney General Price Daniel Records at the Texas State Archives, 1934, 1938-1941, 1944-1962, 1969-1970, 1978, 1986-1987, bulk 1947-1952



Overview

Creator:Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Title:Attorney Genral Price Daniel records
Dates:1934, 1938-1941, 1944-1962, 1969-1970, 1978, 1986-1987
Dates: bulk 1947-1952
Abstract: Price Daniel was Attorney General of Texas from January 1947 to January 1953. The attorney general functions as the state's lawyer, provides legal advice in the form of opinions, and also represents the state in litigation. These records consist of correspondence, reports, briefs, subject files, publications, campaign files, reference materials and historical documents of Texas Attorney General Price Daniel. The records are dated 1934, 1938-1941, 1944-1962, 1969-1970, 1978, 1986-1987, bulk 1947-1952. Records dating from after Daniel's term as Attorney General were added later at Daniel's request. Records listed in the inventory as dating before 1934 are probably copies of historical materials gathered for the Tidelands case. Subjects include the Tidelands Case (state title to submerged lands), organized crime, and Sweatt v. Painter (racial segregation in public education).
Quantity:approximately 60 cubic ft.
Location: Please note that these records are housed at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, P.O. Box 310, Liberty, Texas 77575, 936-336-8821.
Language:These materials are written predominately in English .
Repository: Texas State Archives

Agency History

The office of the Texas attorney general was created by an executive ordinance passed by the 1836 Constitutional Convention. Successors were presidential appointees by act of the First Congress, October 6, 1836. The practice of executive appointment continued during the first years of statehood, but in 1850 the office became elective.

Seven constitutions, scores of penal code revisions, and several hundred civil statutes have defined the duties of this executive officer. Primarily, the attorney general functions as the state's lawyer, provides legal advice in the form of opinions, and also represents the state in litigation. The attorney general has also occupied several positions on state boards and commissions.

During the 19th century, the attorney general provided legal advice to all upon request; requests are now limited to officials and agencies of state and local government. Opinions of the attorney general are not binding upon the judiciary, although they are persuasive to the courts. Moreover, problems that are the subject of official opinions are not often litigated, and such opinions stand as the highest available interpretation of the current law. In civil disputes, the attorney general serves as counsel for state agencies.

While Price Daniel was Attorney General of Texas, January 1947-January 1953, the size of the staff was less than 100 full-time employees of which over 50 were lawyers. In 2001, the Attorney General's office employed 3,660.

Price Daniel Biographical Sketch

Price Daniel's political career spanned more than four decades and included all three branches of state government. Born in 1910 at Dayton, Texas, he was reared in Liberty and Fort Worth. After graduating from high school in Fort Worth, he attended Baylor University where he earned a degree in journalism. The following year, 1932, he received a law degree and returned to Liberty where he opened a law office.

During the next seven years, Price Daniel practiced law and assisted with publishing two local newspapers that he co-owned. In 1939 he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives and became a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee. The following year he married Jean Houston Baldwin and they had four children. After serving three terms in the legislature, he was chosen Speaker of the House in 1943. However, he resigned to enlist in the army as a private, though he soon completed officer candidate school. Stationed in Japan and the Pacific, he attained the rank of captain when he was discharged in May 1946.

Upon his return to Texas, he entered the race for attorney general and won the election. Running unopposed, he was reelected twice. His five years as Attorney General were noted for efforts against organized gambling and for Texas' rights to the Tidelands, the hallmark of his career. Daniel was elected U.S. Senator in 1952, serving as chairman of the senate's judiciary subcommittee and continuing to argue for Texas' rights to three million acres of submerged lands. He sponsored a bill that would return the Tidelands to Texas. His efforts resulted in passage and it became a law with President Eisenhower's signature. After four years as senator Price Daniel was elected governor, an office he held for three consecutive terms, from 1957 to 1963. Attempting to run for an unprecedented fourth term, he was defeated by John Connally in the gubernatorial primaries.

Although he established law offices in Austin and Liberty, Price Daniel returned to politics after a brief respite. He served as director in the office of Emergency Preparedness during the presidential administration of Lyndon Johnson. Soon thereafter, he was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court, remaining an associate justice from 1971 until his retirement in 1979. Daniel served as a special assistant to the Texas Attorney General for the Texas v. Louisiana boundary case. Maintaining memberships in many legal professional organizations, he was also active in a variety of civic and church activities until his death on August 25, 1988.

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Scope and Contents of the Records

Price Daniel was Attorney General of Texas from January 1947 to January 1953. The attorney general functions as the state's lawyer, provides legal advice in the form of opinions, and also represents the state in litigation. These records consist of correspondence, reports, briefs, subject files, publications, campaign files, reference materials and historical documents of Texas Attorney General Price Daniel. The records are dated 1934, 1938-1941, 1944-1962, 1969-1970, 1978, 1986-1987, bulk 1947-1952. Records dating from after Daniel's term as Attorney General were added later at Daniel's request. Records listed in the inventory as dating before 1934 are probably copies of historical materials gathered for the Tidelands case. Subjects include the Tidelands Case (state title to submerged lands), organized crime, and Sweatt v. Painter (racial segregation in public education).

These records have not been processed. This folder inventory is a transcription of the original box and folder titles as they were received. Rough, non-exclusive groupings by title and date were formed to comply with the TARO project's file size restrictions. Researchers are advised to review all the finding aids for subjects of interest. Inconsistent titles and dates are evident. Misidentifications and misfilings are possible.

This finding aid describes one series of Price Daniel records. See Texas Governor Price Daniel records and U.S. Sentator Price Daniel papers for more records and papers.

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Arrangement of the Records

These records are arranged in order as received.

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

None.

Restrictions on Use

Most records created by Texas state agencies are not copyrighted and may be freely used in any way. State records also include materials received by, not created by, state agencies. Copyright remains with the creator. The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).

Technical Requirements

None.

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Index Terms

The terms listed here were used to catalog the records. The terms can be used to find similar or related records.
Personal Names:
Daniel, Price.
Sweatt, Heman Marion.
Corporate Names:
University of Texas at Austin. School of Law.
Subjects:
Attorneys general--Texas.
Submerged lands--Texas.
Petroleum in submerged lands--Texas.
Segregation in higher education--Texas.
Discrimination in education--Texas.
Political campaigns--Texas.
Organized crime--Texas.
Places:
Texas--Public lands.
Document Types:
Correspondence--Texas--Attorneys general--1947-1952.
Reports--Texas--Attorneys general--1947-1952.
Briefs (legal documents)--Texas--Attorneys general--1947-1960.
Functions:
Enforcing laws.

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Related Material

The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the records. The listing is not exhaustive.

Texas State Archives
Texas Attorney-General's Office, Correspondence and subject files, 1850, 1870-1957, 189.12 cubic ft.
Texas Attorney-General's Office, Court cases and investigations, 1880-1987, 762.13 cubic ft. (Restricted)
Texas Governor Allan Shivers, Records, 1937-1964, 1968, undated (bulk 1949-1956), 561 cubic ft.
Texas State Archives Manuscripts Collections
Chrys Dougherty, Tidelands collection, undated, fractional
Inaugurations of Texas Governors, Papers, 1895-1965, 5 inches
Humble Oil and Refining Company v. State of Texas, Legal brief, 1953, 1 volume
Texas Democratic Executive Committee, Publications, 1961, fractional, [inaugural address]
Sweatt v. Painter, [court records], 1946-1948, fractional (The Texas Attorney General retains its Sweatt v. Painter litigation case file. It is case number AG 7416.)
Texas State Archives at the Sam Houston Center
(Please note that these records are housed at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, P.O. Box 310, Liberty, Texas 77575, 936-336-8821.)
Texas Governor Price Daniel records, 1944-1966, undated, bulk 1957-1962, approximately 466 cubic ft.
U.S. Senator Price Daniel papers, 1928, 1938-1939, 1942-1961, bulk 1952-1957, approximately 117 cubic ft.
Price Daniel Papers as Special Assistant to the Texas Attorney General for the Texas v. Louisiana boundary case, 1969-1973, 2.75 cubic ft.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

(Identify the item), Texas Attorney General Price Daniel records. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Accession Information

Accession numbers: 1989/250, 1989/251, 1989/260

Price Daniel transferred his records as Governor of Texas to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission at the close of his administration as Governor of Texas in 1963. Included with the gubernatorial records were the majority of Daniel's records as Texas Attorney General and a large quantity of his papers as the United States Senator from Texas.

The Texas State Library transferred these documents to the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in 1977. In 1989 Mrs. Price Daniel donated the private papers of Price Daniel as attorney general and governor in addition to his papers as U.S. Senator from Texas.

Processing Information

Carrie Griffin, April 1993

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Detailed Description of the Records

 

Attorney General Price Daniel records, 1934, 1938-1941, 1944-1962, 1969-1970, 1978, 1986-1987, bulk 1947-1952,
approximately 60 cubic ft.

Box
1Various File Folders (labeled by title, contents or subject):
No. 1 Petroleum Seeps
Ownership of Minerals
Recognition of Texas by the United States
Miscellaneous
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
Texas Navy
Recognition of Texas by France
Recognition of Texas by the Netherlands
Recognition of Texas by Great Britain
Recognition of Texas by Belgium
Knowledge and Recognition by United States Officials
Insistence on 1836 boundaries by Texas Officials
Unratified Treaty of 1844
Annexation Agreement - Vacant Lands
Annexation Agreement - Territory Included
Annexation Agreement - Means for Defense
Annexation Agreement - Meaning of Equal Footing
Annexation Agreement - Effect of Equal Footing
Miscellaneous papers re: Historical Background
International Laws on Seabed Boundaries
Miscellaneous Historical Research
Tidelands Expenses
Pre-annexation ownership
Galveston Bay Lighthouse Site
Grants to other States
Statement on Federal Claims
The Naval Petroleum Oil Shale Reserves
Tidelands Resolutions -1- Mississippi Valley Association
Galveston Bay
Texas Boundaries
Refugio Warrans Bay
Copies of letters and opinions on Tidelands
Fort Crockett and Fort San Jacinto
Cessation
(including Austin Arsenal, Houston Arsenal, Transfer of Prull, Unnamed Letters, Unnamed Letters-Navy Department, Letters-Treasury Department, Letters- Army Department, Letters- Transfer of Property, Copies of Historic Documents)
Subsequent Construction of 1845 Annexation Agreement - General
United States v. Texas Memorandum on Fact, miscellaneous correspondence
(including Reports to the Senate - 33rd Congress, 1849-1850; Land for U.S. Military Posts in Texas; Deeds of Cession - Texas to U.S. for Military Posts)
Box
2Ownership of Land to be used for U.S. Military Posts
Annexation Agreement (I) Exhibits, 1953
Annexation Agreement (II) Exhibits
Material submitted by Miss Kate Stewart, Library of Congress (I)
Materials from Library of Congress (II)
Early letters re: Cession of land to be used for Public Purpose - to the U.S.
State v. Jadwin (I) East tip of Galveston - intended lighthouse
State v. Jadwin (II)
Lighthouses
Explanation of Attached Bill on Submerged Lands - Gossett-McCarran,
(including House Resolution 180, Senate Bill 1545)
Tidelands Cartoons
Coastal State Boundaries
Continental Shelf
Tidelands Rentals and Expenditures
External Sovereignty and Inherent Powers
Geophysical Operations - list of companies and number of days - performed on State Ownership of Submerged Lands
Inland States
Inland Waters
International Law Experts
Gulf Coast map, Sabine River to Rio Grande River
Box
3Tidelands memos on Law
Draft of "Legislation" Tidelands
Legislation
Tidelands Mailing and Address List
(including Mineral Ownership, Opinions of U.S. Attorneys General)
Manuscript Memorandum on Rights Involved in U.S. v. Texas
Booklet - Memorandum - U.S. v. Texas - Preliminary Issues
Interior Department Opinions
Patents by State or U.S. Government
Lists of Patents, and Aransas Life Saving Station
El Paso County
East End for Galveston for Life Saving Station
Fortification Cessions
Galveston Waterway
Pelican Spit - Galveston Bay
Lighthouse Matagorda Island
Mustang Island Lighthouse
San Antonio Post Office
Submarine Land Laguna Madre
Deed of Cession, Fort Crockett
Santa Margarita Water Rights
Tidelands Speeches - Folders I and II
Tidelands - Admissibility of Evidence
Tidelands bibliography by William Kennedy
Saturday Evening Post article - manuscript
South Texas Press Association Resolution
Submerged Lands Resolution National Association of Attorneys General Annual Meeting St. Paul, Miami, Seattle, 1949, 1950, 1953
Times-Picayune, New Orleans (Healy-Krebs)
West Texas Chamber of Commerce - James F. Melton, Manager
Tidelands Voting Record
War Department
Miscellaneous Tidelands Material from desk of Price Daniel
Tom Connally, State Department Material (I)
Tom Connally, State Department Material (II)
Resolutions - State Legislature
Tidelands - Texas State Teachers
Tidelands Resolution (I)
Tidelands Resolutions (II)
Tidelands News Releases - Press
Curtis Morris
Tidelands - Sam Rayburn
The Reporter, Price Daniel and Tom Connally vie for Senate Seat, February 1952
Box
4Tidelands Speeches
Tidelands Continental Shelf (I)
Tidelands Continental Shelf (II)
Press Release, Tidelands Brief - U.S. v. Texas, February 21, 1950
Tidelands - School Land Board Resolutions
Tidelands
Texas Property Defense Association
Statewide Tidelands Committee
Information on Supreme Court Members
Tidelands Story
Texas Delegation
Political Platforms - Tidelands
Historical background, divided by years:
1586-1818
1819-1852
1853-1912
1913-1937
1938-1951
1952
1953-1957
Submerged Lands Legislation, Support for State Ownership
(including Supporting Source material prepared for Governor Adlai Stevenson by Price Daniel)
Memoranda Pertaining to Lands Beneath Tidewaters and Navigable Waters within Boundaries of the Separate States
Texas Chronology, 1836-1844
Texas Chronology, 1844-1850
Tidelands - "Confidential Brief"
Box
5The Annexation Agreement between the United States and Texas Tidelands
The Tidelands decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, by Beauford Jester
C.C.G. Spotlight - Federal Versus States' Rights in the Tidelands Cases
Tidelands States Rights
Every State has Submerged Lands
Extent [1 copy, 1 printers lay-out]
Texas Tidelands - A Handbook
These men believed
Tidelands Oil, Big Values, Unknown Risk…A Challenge in Specialty Insurance
Three Leagues from Land, by Price Daniel
Every Congressman Should Know About Federal Confiscation of State Land
Submerged Lands Exhibits
Letters re: Continental Shelf - J.W. Miller
Comments on final passage of Senate Joint Resolution 13 - Price Daniel
Correspondence re: Every State Has Submerged Land, by Robert Irvin
Tidelands Resolutions
Tidelands - Texas State Teachers - Correspondence and Resolutions
Texas Tidelands - Heritage of Texas Public Schools
Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers - Tidelands Resolutions
Tidelands article of July 10, 1954
Confidential - The Texas Governor's Race
Tidelands
(including [correspondence], 1955; California, correspondence; From "Senator's Window Sill"; Correspondence, Price Daniel and Dennis Wallace; Action - copies of Senator Holland's comments; Correspondence, Rudder and Price Daniel; Gulf Coast map)
Senator Daniel Statement on Tidelands Decision
Tidelands Statements, correspondence, House Bill 552
Dawson Duncan Statements on Tidelands
General Land Office, Lease Statistics, October 31, 1957
Tidelands Message by Price Daniel to Joint Session 55th Legislature, November 2, 1957
Tidelands Press Memoranda and additional background
Folders:
Responses from Governors (I)
Responses from Governors (II)
General Statements re: Tidelands
International Law Commission and Statements from nine countries
Submerged Land Bill - development of amendments
Robert Moses Testimony
Tidelands - Various papers/maps/etc.
Miscellaneous Statements and Memos
Correspondence re: Naval Petroleum Reserves numbers 2 and 3
Box
6Statements (I) Memoranda Price Daniel
Material on Senate Joint Resolution 13
Submerged Lands Bills 294
Correspondence including comments to Hugh Butler from L. Rankin
Should Tidelands Oil be Returned to the States?
Speech by Price Daniel from Senate Floor re: Submerged Lands
Copies of agreed stipulation between U.S. and California
State Submerged Lands Exhibit,
Extent [2 copies]
Price Daniel Press Statement re: Submerged Lands Bill, January 9, 1953
Federal Government Biggest Absentee Landlord
Letters to Hugh Butler and Mark Grinnell, March 2, 1953
Proposed Transfer of Naval Petroleum Reserves, Department of Interior
Miscellaneous Maps, Photos, etc. on Submerged Lands
Congressional Record, April 13-25, 1953
Urgent Message to Coastal State Officials by Hall Hammond, Attorney General of Maryland
Senate Bill 923 by O'Mahoney
Record of vote on House Joint Resolution 225 and House Resolution 5992
Information on Marginal Sea
Hearings and Reports - 83rd Congress, 1st Session
Tidelands - Alabama
Tidelands Resolutions
Continental Shelf, 1953
Tidelands Hearings, 1953
Tidelands, February 24-July 29, 1953
Tidelands - correspondence, 1953
Preliminary Bill, 83rd Congress
Congressional Record, July 16, 1954
Statements before Interior and Insular Committee on Senate Joint Resolution 13
Folder I
(including Ralph Newman, Office of the Attorney General Tom Clark; John J. Real, Manager Fisherman's Cooperative Association; California; Memorandum - District Attorney L.H. Perez, Plaquemine Parish, LA; J.T. Sanders, Legislative Counsel for the National Grange; Burton K. Wheeler; Ralph Yarborough; James J. Cosgrove, Continental Oil Company; Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of Navy; William W. Porter II, Consulting Geologist, Los Angeles, CA; Phillip B. Pearlman; Estes Keefauver, Senator from Tennessee; Clinton P. Anderson, Senator from New Mexico; James E. Murray, Senator from Montana)
Statements before Interior and Insular Committee on Senate Joint Resolution 13
Folder II
(including Angus McDonald, National Farmers Union; W.D. Johnson, Vice President, Order of Railway Conductors; Donald Montgomery, UAW - CIO; Wallace J. Campbell, Cooperative League of USA; Constantine N. Perkins, Department of City Attorney-Los Angeles, CA; Clayton L. Orn, Legal Department, Ohio Oil Company, Texas Division; George D. Riley, American Federation of Labor; Senator Daniel's Exhibit A - Setting Aside Submerged Land; Harold R. Fatzer, President National Association of Attorneys General; Frank G. Millard, Attorney General, State of Michigan; Roy H. Beeler, Attorney General, State of Tennessee; Nathaniel B. Birdwell, National Water Conservation Conference; Fred S. LeBlanc, Attorney General, State of Louisiana; Harold F. Clark, Professor of Education Economics, Columbia University)
Statements before Interior and Insular Committee on Senate Joint Resolution 13
Folder III
(including Price Daniel, Senator, State of Texas; Lister Hill, Senator; Spessard L. Holland, Senator, State of Florida; Jack B. Tate, Deputy Legal Advisor, Department of State; Oscar L. Chapman; Attorney General Brownell; Testimony re: Off Shore Lands; Reprint from Under Texas Skies, picturing Price Daniel on cover, January 1953; Allen J. Ellender, Senator, State of Louisiana; Suzanna Davis, Public Director of Americans for Democratic Action; George Nelson, International Association of Machinists, AFL; Maywood Boggs, Railway Labor Executives Association; Julia D. Bennett, American Library Association; Samuel R. Levering, Friends Committee on National Legislation; O.A. Knight, Congress of Industrial Organizations; E.W. Rising, National Water Conservation Conference; John J. Gunther, Americans for Democratic Action, Legislative Representative; M.D. Mobley, Executive Secretary, American Vocational Association; John W. Edelman, Textile Workers Union of America, CIO; Robert Moses, City Planning Commission, City of New York)
Press Memorandum, April 21, 1958
Statement, February 4, 1959
Tidelands material for Governors from John Goldsum
Tidelands
Working copies of Supreme Court, 1958
(including United States v. Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama; Florida)
No. 13 Original In the Supreme Court, United States v. Texas, Brief
Work Copy of #10, Tidelands Bill
Printed copy of #10, Tidelands Bill
Box
7First Argument
Intra-office Memo - J. Goldsum to Price Daniel
Tidelands - re: Geneva Conference
Tidelands - U.S. Texas Boundary
Conference on Law of the Sea
Correspondence re: Joint Hearings on Tidelands, 1948-1959
Correspondence re: Tidelands, 1958
Tidelands Special Committee, 1959
Price Daniel Notes on Tidelands
Tidelands Map - Boundary Suit, 1959
Report from John Goldsum
Robles Book
Press releases and speeches
Three League Boundary
Tidelands Defense
Tidelands Correspondence and Notes, 1957
Tidelands Correspondence and Notes, 1958
Tidelands 2
Tidelands - 4th Draft, Common Brief
Tidelands Hearings
Tidelands Correspondence and Notes
Tidelands Correspondence, 1959-1960
Box
8Tidelands - Island and Mud Flats
Excerpts from Washington Post, Evening Star, etc., 1953
Tidelands Correspondence and Opinions
UN Conference on Laws of the Sea
Tidelands correspondence and memorandum
Notes of Laws of the Sea
Tidelands
(including Draft of Summary of Argument; TIPRO Reporter, August 1961
Correspondence, etc. re: Laws of the Sea
Three Leagues from Land, by Price Daniel
Exhibits - Robert Moses, to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Ernestine Adams, "Oil in Troubled Waters," The Petroleum Engineer
T. C. Andrews correspondence
Miss Mabel Baldwin - correspondence re: Tidelands Project at Southern Methodist University including copy of project
Wendell Bedichek - correspondence
Robert Lee Bobbitt, Tidelands:
Special Committee (I)
Special Committee (II)
Special Committee (III)
David Botter - correspondence
Jack Brooks correspondence
John W. Carpenter - Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Cartwright - Mayor of Galveston
Miss Magdalene Charlton correspondence
Tom Clark, Supreme Court News
[news clips]
Hon. J.M. Combs, M.C. correspondence
Tom Connally - State Department material
Charles Dickson correspondence
Allen Duckworth - Dallas Morning News
Eisenhower Speech, October 14, 1952
"Ma" Ferguson - Austin
Hon. Frank Feuille
Bascom Giles
Ed Gossett
Lucille Mae Grace
Bell, Gully and Company - Wellington, NY
Brooks L. Harman
Weldon Hart
Sam Hobbs brief
Hofmokel - correspondence, TPDA
Miss Ima Hogg
Manley O. Hudson
Charles Cheney Hyde
Harold Ickes
Guy C. Jackson correspondence - TPDA
Lyndon B. Johnson
Walter Johnson
Ed Kilman
Box
9George Kirksey - correspondence and clippings (I)
George Kirksey (II)
Bill Kittrell
Arthur Krock - The New York Times
KRUG - News Clips
Lynn W. Landrum
Ray Leeman - South Texas Chamber of Commerce
Durwood Manford, correspondence - TPDA
D.K. Martin
John McCall
Howard McGrath
Manuscript of Law Review by Professor Moore
Peter Molyneaux
Hon. James William Moore
Curtis Morris
Wright Morrow
Statements by Robert Moses - New York
O'Mahoney correspondence and press release
Clayton L. Orn
Drew Pearson
Philip B. Pearlman
Edward M. Pooley
Sam Rayburn
Ben Rice
Governor Allan Shivers
Hon. Adlai Stevenson
Hon. M. H. Stougaard
R.A. Wheeler
M.K. Weitzel - TPDA (I)
M.K. Weitzel, (II)
League of Texas Municipalities Resolution
Tidelands manuscript re: Bill 1901 (I)
Tidelands manuscript re: Bill 1901 (II)
Tidelands manuscript re: Bill 1901 (III)
Submerged Lands - manuscript and statements
Radio Broadcasts
Replies to propaganda against Senate Joint Resolution 13
Senate Debate on Senate Joint Resolution 13
House Debate on Senate Joint Resolution 13
Exhibit A - Galveston map showing boundaries, 1891
Photographs of Galveston Shoreline
Box
10Off-Shore Exploration
Senate proceedings
(including Senate Joint Resolution 13, Senate Bill 105, Senate Bill 294, Senate Joint Resolution 18)
Proposed amendments to Senate Bill 1901
Press Releases, January 1953-May 1953
Brief of Submerged Lands Controversy
Senator Daniel's statement before Senate Interior and Insular Affairs
Speech against Senate Joint Resolution 13 by Senator Lister Hill in the U.S. Senate
This Can Happen To Any State, (CA attorney general) Fred N. Howser, 1947
U.S. News, May 22, 1953
Material on Tidelands Book for Congress
Recent Developments With Respect To The Continental Shelf
Tidelands/States Rights
Time For Action
Offshore Operations LA, TX, CA
Offshore Drilling Operations in the Gulf of Mexico
Big Business In A Competitive Society
The Cost Of An Offshore Well In The Gulf of Mexico
Extracts from Petroleum Facts and Figures
State Sovereignty v. National, C. Perry Patterson
Potential Oil and Gas Reserves of the Continental Shelf Off the Coasts of LA, TX, and CA, February 16, 1953
Memorandum on the Matter of the Acquisition by the National 44 Offshore Drilling Operation
State Information re: Resources and Submerged Lands
Report of the Committee on Coastal Waters and Appurtenant Subsoil
The Judicial States of the Continental Shelf
State Sovereignty on Navigation
Cartography in the Submerged Lands Oil Cases
Congressional Record - 80th Congress, April 1948
Congressional Digest, October 1948
Marquette Law Review - article on Tidelands
Background material on Laws of the Sea
Final Report of UN Conference on Laws of the Sea
Congressional Digest
Texas Parade - article on Tidelands, March 1955
Leasing and Operating Regulations, U.S. Department of Interior
Marine Drilling Platforms
Characteristics of Submerged Lands, State of California
Our Public Lands
Oil Leasing Act of 1920, House reprint 82nd Congress, July 1961
Federal Power Commission Laws - Hydro Electric Power
Sovereignty and Ownership in the Marginal Sea
Specific Separatist and Script Application
True Reasons
Tidelands Speech for Radio, 1951
The American Association of Port Authorities
Box
11Correspondence, etc.
Statement of Price Daniel, Attorney General of Texas
Texas' Title to Submerged Lands
Price Daniel Statement before U.S. Senate and House
The Truth about Senate Joint Resolution. 13
Congressional Record - 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, 1951
News Clips pertaining to Tidelands issue
Confidential brief on Texas' 3 League Boundary
Price Daniel Tidelands
[papers found loose in one box]
Correspondence, 1951
Joint Memorandum in support of rehearing in U.S. v. TX
Department of Interior
Interior and Insular Affairs
National Association of Attorneys General
Tidelands - Federal Lease Application
State Bar of Texas
The Texas Club Woman
Tidelands, Correspondence and manuscript
Tidelands Speeches, 1951
General Information and Local Agency Directory, 1962
(including Stun list, Form letters, Correspondence)
Governor Daniel Working Papers - Tidelands
Tidelands Case - Supreme Court Justices' Opinions
To read - Congressional Record, Correspondence, etc.
Federal Aid
Texas Water Conservation meeting in San Antonio, 1952
Tidelands Material Requested - correspondence
Congressional Record, 1950-1951
"Keep the Tidelands" Association Midland
Tidelands - Fisheries
Statements on Tidelands - Spessard Holland speech, 1953
Tidelands, 1952
(including Price Daniel Statement of 1952, Texas Title to Submerged Lands, Maps, etc.)
Resolution - Annexation
Tidelands - General
Tidelands correspondence, October 1952
House Resolution 4484
"Preserve the Tidelands" - Houston Magazine
Interior Department Secretary Chapman
Committee for Constitutional Government
Box
12Interim Bill
Complaint - Dickson v. Tom Clark
Every State Has Submerged Lands
Fallbrook Case
Dallas News
Compromise correspondence - Tidelands
Tidelands:
Georgia
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Washington, state of
Washington D. C.
Wisconsin
House Resolution 58 and House Resolution 1230
Price Daniel speech, September 1, 1952
(including Dallas, Tidelands and the November Election , Press memo from Bascom Giles)
Constitutional Annexation and Ordinance
Tidelands, 1951
Tidelands to read Correspondence
Senate Joint Resolution 20
Decisions of Department of Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands
Reports - Submerged Lands
Texas Annexation Bill
Debates and Senate Reports, 1952
Tidelands, (I), 1952
Tidelands, correspondence (II), 1952
Tidelands Correspondence (III)
Accounting
Title 43, Sec 141
Title III - Continental Shelf
Correspondence from the following states:
Arkansas
Arizona
Alabama
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Box
13Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Tom Connally Statement re: House Joint Resolution 176 and House Joint Resolution 181
News Release - TDPA
Minutes, By-Laws, Resolutions - TPDA
Miscellaneous Letters and Lists - TDPA
Proposed Programs - TDPA
Tidelands Correspondence - Congratulations and Best Wishes
American Legion Resolution meeting in Galveston, May 1951
Tidelands Correspondence (I), 1952
Tidelands Correspondence (II), 1954
Tidelands Correspondence (III) and Speeches, etc., 1958
Barrons, Oil On The Shelf
Washington Contacts
Tidelands - Republican Activity
Tidelands Suit
Veterans Land File
Land Board File
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14Tidelands Bills Pending
State Bar - Taxation Letters
Continental Shelf
State Ownership of Submerged Coastal Lands, The Tidelands Case
Tidelands material
Reclamation State Letters, 1947
Tidelands General I
Tidelands General II
Tidelands - Texas Delegation
Tidelands Case
Tidelands Future Project
Tidelands current
Tidelands clips, 1951
Tidelands, 1951
Price Daniel and the Tidelands Controversy, by David Murph, March 2, 1978
[speech and tape]
Tidelands
Sweatt/Tidelands clippings
Tidelands articles
Tidelands, 1986-1987
Tidelands
Tidelands reports and speeches, 1947-1948
President of the United States
Tidelands Letters, speeches, clippings, 1948
Press Release
U.S. v. California
U.S. v. Texas - New brief
Federal Lease Applicants
Redraft of Resolution
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15Washington folder including correspondence and clips Tidelands (I)
Washington Office, Contacts - Tidelands (II)
State Bar of Texas Campaign correspondence (I)
State Bar of Texas Campaign correspondence (II)
General Land Office
Veterans Land program, 1952
Veterans Land Board (I)
Veterans Land Board (II)
Veterans Land Board (III)
School Land Board
U.S. v. Texas, Motion to Leave to File Complaint and Complaint
Supreme Court - Tidelands Suit
Tidelands - General Correspondence
Federal Fishing Claims - Fisheries
State Lands Commission - California
California (I)
California (II)
National Association of Attorneys General Convention, 1949
Working Papers - Tidelands Resolutions, etc.
Resolutions - Legislature, 1949
Correspondence re: Editorials
Opinions from the Supreme Court of the United States
Precedents concerning Texas Special Claim
Activities of the Texas Navy
Correspondence, clippings, etc., 1949
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16Tidelands Statements, Speeches
Memorandum on Rights Involved in U.S. v. Texas
Messages - Hall Hammond, Attorney General of Maryland re: Tidelands
Tidelands Bill Veto, May 29, 1952
Speeches, Testimonies, Statements and Articles re: Tidelands
Correspondence proposing Compromise I
Correspondence proposing Compromise II
State Department Press Releases and News clips
State Bar of Texas - Tidelands correspondence (I)
State Bar of Texas - Tidelands correspondence (II)
Legislative correspondence (I), 1949-1950
Legislative correspondence (II), 1949
Correspondence - Great Lakes
U.S. v. Texas Argument
Newspapers and Magazine lists - editors of the U.S.
Federation of Women's Clubs
Governors List
Tidelands Brief, Last decision - correspondence
Tidelands Brief correspondence
O'Mahoney Bill
Report on Tidelands Decision, June 20, 1950
Supreme Court - Telegrams and News Clips
National Association of Attorneys General
Resolutions
Tidelands miscellaneous
House Bill 41
Tidelands Decision, Congress
Amicus Curae - U.S. v. Texas
Correspondence, statements
State Bar Meeting re: Tidelands Speech
Admiral Nimitz of the Texas Navy - Washington Day Dinner
Facts and figures re: California Coastline
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17Attorney General's Office, Employee Files:
Loyalty Oath, filed alphabetically (A-N)
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18Loyalty Oath, filed alphabetically (O-Z)
Publications:
"The Legal Status of Submarine Areas Beneath the High Seas, " Richard Young. Reprint from The American Journal of International Law, April 1951
"The Submerged Land Cases," John Hanna. Reprint from the Baylor Law Review's Symposium on the Texas Tidelands Case, 1951
"The Conduct of the Litigation in United States v. Texas," Ireland Graves. Reprint from the Baylor Law Review's symposium
Submerged and Reclaimed Lands - Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here? Address of Hall Hammond, Attorney General of Maryland before the American Association of Port Authorities, October, 1951
"Critique on the Texas Tidelands Case," Roscoe Pound. Reprint from the Baylor Law Review's Symposium
"Problems of the Continental Shelf," reprinted from Revue Egyptienne de Droit International, 1950
"The Congress and International Law," Price Daniel. Reprint from Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1953
Price Daniel Speech on Submerged Lands delivered on the floor of the Senate of the United States
Price Daniel Speech - "Every State Has Submerged Lands," delivered before Texas Congressional Dinner in Washington, D.C., April 30, 1951
The Baylor Line, article on The Price Daniel Family, May 1953
Recueil des Arrets, Avis Consultantifs et Ordonnances, Affaire des Pecheries, "Reports of Judgements, Advisory Opinions and Orders, Fisheries Case," 1951
Statement by Harold R. Fatzer, Attorney General of Kansas before the Committee On Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, February 16, 1953
Titles To Lands Beneath Navigable Waters. Reprint of the Report of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Senate Bill 1988, Washington, D.C., 1951
Claimed Authority For Seizure and Lease of Certain Submerged Lands Under the Federal Property Act. Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, June 12, 1952
Tidelands States Rights for Editors
Every State Has Submerged Lands. True Reasons Why Congressional Action Confirming State Ownership of Submerged Lands (House Resolution 4484) is Favored by….
The Oil Forum , November 1953
"Phillips and the Natural Gas Act," Bradford Ross and Bernard A. Foster, Jr. Reprint from the symposium on The Regulation of Natural Gas, Summer 1954
"The Cost of an Offshore Well In the Gulf of Mexico," reprinted from The Pure Oil News, February, 1952
Quick News Weekly - pages 18 and 19
The NUEA Discussion and Debate manual, 1953-1954, Selecting the President. Edited by Bower Aly
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19Applications for Employment in the Attorney General's Office:
Folders alphabetically filed (A-Z)
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20Tidelands Publications:
Baylor Law Review. Volume III, Number 2. Symposium on the Texas Tidelands Case. Waco, TX: Baylor Law School, 1951
Boletin del Instituto de Derecho Comparado de Mexico. Mexico, D.F.: Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, 1951
Education in Pasadena. Eighth Report, Senate Investigating Committee on Education. Sacramento: California
Submerged Lands. Hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, 81st Congress, 2nd Session, on Senate Joint Resolution 195. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original, United States v. State of Texas. Defendant's Petition for Rehearing, October Term, 1949
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original, United States v. State of Texas. In opposition to Motion for Judgment
[2 copies, one uncorrected]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original United States v. State of Texas. In regard to motion of the State of Texas for leave to file an amended answer
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original United States v. State of Texas. Reply Memorandum for the United Stated in support of Motion for Judgment
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original United States v. State of Texas. Amend the motion for order to take Oral Depositions, Statements in Support, and Reply to Plaintiff's Memorandum in opposition to the original Motion
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original United States v. State of Texas. Motion to Pass the Hearing Set for March, 27
Extent [2 copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original United States v. State of Texas. First Amended Answer of the State of Texas
Extent [2 copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 13, Original United States v. State of Texas. Motion for Leave to file Complaint
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 12, Original, United States of America v. State of California. Answer of State of California, 1945
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 12, Original. United States v. State of California. Appendices A to I to Brief for the State of California in Opposition to Motion for Judgment, 1945
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 12, Original, United States v. State of California. Petition of Robert E. Lee Jordan for Leave to file Brief as Amicus Curiae in Opposition to the Petition of the Attorney General for a Proposed Supplemental Decree, 1945
Supreme Court of the United States. No. 12, Original, October Term, United States v. State of California. Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court, 1946
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 14, Original, United States v. State of Texas. Motion for more definite statement or bill of particulars and for extension of the time to answer or otherwise plead, 1948
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 14, Original United States v. State of Texas. Motion of the State of Texas to dismiss the complaint of the United States of America, 1948
Extent [two copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 14, Original United States v. State of Texas. Reply in opposition to Motion for Judgment, 1948
Extent [two copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 14, Original United States v. State of Texas. Answer of the State of Texas, 1948
Extent [two copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Number 14, Original United States v. State of Texas. Motion of the State of Texas for Appointment of a Special Master, 1948
Conservation and Control of Submerged Coastal Lands and of Lands Beneath Inland Waters and of Certain Resources of Said Lands. Hearings before Subcommittee No 1 of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, 81st Congress, 1st Session on House Resolution 5991 and House Resolution 5992, August 24, 25, and 29, 1949
Before the Supreme Court of the United States, Brief of Amicus Curiae. by M. H. Stougaard, Huntsville, Texas
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, United States of America v. State of Texas. Supplemental Statement and Brief for the State of Texas in support of objections to motion of the United States for Leave to File Complaint, 1948
In the Supreme Court of the United States, United States v. State of Texas. Motion for Leave to file objections and objections to Motion of United States of America for Leave to File Complaint
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Oct. Term, Number 7, Original, United States of America v. State of Louisiana. Motion for modification of decree and brief in support of motion, 1954
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 12, Original, United States of America v. State of Louisiana. Memorandum in regard to the state's objections to the decree proposed by the United States, 1950
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 12, Original, United States v. State of Louisiana. Reply to plaintiffs memorandum on proposed decree, 1950
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 15, Original, United States v. State of Louisiana. Memorandum for the United States in reply to Louisiana's brief in opposition to motion for leave to file complaint, 1955
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 11, Original, Brief of the State of Louisiana in Opposition to Motion for Judgment by the United States, 1956
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 11, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Answer of the State of Texas to the Motion of the United States for Judgment; Motion for Leave to Take Evidence; Motion for Severance and for Separate Trial and Argument; and Statement in Support of Motions and in Reply to Response of the United States to Motion for Pretrial Conference, 1957
Extent [two copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 11, Original, United States of America v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Joint Memorandum of the States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida Pertaining to Schedule for Filing of Briefs and Order of Allotment of Time for Oral Argument, 1957
Extent [two copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 11, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Answer of Defendant the State of Texas to Second Cause of Action, 1957
Extent [two copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States of America v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Brief of the State of Texas, 1958
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida Number 10, Original, Appendix to Louisiana's reply brief and Motion to file with Supporting Statements, 1959
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Written Memorial of Oral Argument for Alabama, 1959
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Motion of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to file a supplement to their Respective Petitions For Rehearing Herein by Offering Newly Discovered Evidence, and Statement In Support Thereof, 1959
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Supplemental Brief of the State of Mississippi in Opposition to Motion for Judgment on Amended Complaint, 1959
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Brief of the State of Florida Filed Subsequent to Argument, 1959
In The Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. On Motion for Judgment on Amended Complaint. Reply of the United States to Briefs Filed by the Defendants after Oral Argument, 1959
Extent [two copies]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas Mississippi, Alabama and Florida Number 10, Original, Supplemental Memorandum for the United States and Motion for Leave to File, 1959
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Post-Submission Reply argument and Memorandum on behalf of the State of Texas, 1959
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 10, Original, United States v. States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Supplemental Memorandum of Additional Research Concerning United States Recognition of Texas' Three League Boundary, and motion for Leave to File, 1959
Development of Oil and Gas on the Public Domain. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, 1st Session on Senate Bill 1236. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1945
The Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. A Message from the President of the United States Transmitting The Final Report of the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Pursuant to Public Law 109, 83rd Congress. June 28, 1955
University of Florida Law Review. Volume I, Number 1 Spring, 1948. Gainsville, FL: University of Florida, Article by Julius F. Parker, ""Problems in Florida and Other Coastal States Caused by the California Tidelands Decision,"" 1948
"Confiscation by Judicial Decree; The Procedural Course of the Tidelands Cases" by F. Frowbridge von Baur. Reprinted from Tulane Law Review. New Orleans, LA: Tulane Law School., 1953
Treaties Affecting the Northeastern Fisheries. United States Tariff Commission. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Tariff Commission, (Report No. 152, Second Series), 1944
Report of Subcommittee No. 1 on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives Confirming and Establishing the Titles of the States to Lands Beneath Navigable Waters within State Boundaries and to the Natural Resources within Such Lands and Waters and Providing for the Use and Control of Said Lands and Resources and for the Control, Exploration, Development and Conservation of Certain Resources of the Continental Shelf Lying Outside of State Boundaries
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, Number 6, Original, United States of America v. State of California. Exceptions of the United States to the Report of the Spe