Title: Prentiss Marsh Brown Papers Creator: Brown, Prentiss M. (Prentiss Marsh), 1889-1973 Inclusive dates: 1902-1973 Extent: 28 linear feet (in 29 boxes) Extent: 2 oversize folders Extent: 12 microfilms Abstract:
Michigan congressman and senator, head of the U.S. Office of Price Administration; papers include correspondence, legislative files, speeches, political files, business and legal records, diaries and scrapbooks, visual materials, and sound recordings.
Call number: 85837 Aa 2 Ac Language: The materials are in English. Repository: Bentley Historical Library
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Finding aid prepared by: Thomas E. Powers
Access and Use
Acquisition Information:
The collection was donated by Prentiss M. Brown (donor no. 4421) and his family (donor no. 5760) in three accessions in 1966 and 1975.
Access Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
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Copyright:
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Preferred Citation:
item, folder title, box no., Prentiss M. Brown Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Arrangement
Wherever possible, the materials are preserved in the order maintained by Brown and his staff in St. Ignace and Washington. With the series of political papers, speeches, and legislative case files, this presented no problem. With other materials, however, an arrangement system had to be imposed since the materials came to the library unarranged. These papers were sorted chronologically and placed into a Correspondence series (boxes #1-3). Though such material might originally have belonged to one of the established series in Brown's filing system, it was unclear which was the appropriate category. Rather than disrupting the integrity of the other series, therefore, this unordered material was put into its own separate series. When processing was completed, the collection comprised twelve different series.
Biography
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 schools, graduating in 1906. He went to Albion College, graduating in 1911 with an A.B. degree. A scholarship in political economy attracted him to the University of Illinois where he worked from 1911 to 1914. In 1914 he returned to St. Ignace and commenced the practice of law with his father. In the fall of 1914, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Mackinac County on the Democratic ticket and was reelected for each succeeding term until 1926 when he voluntarily retired. In 1930 on the recommendation of the Supreme Court of Michigan he was appointed a member of the State Board of Law Examiners. He was reappointed in 1931 and again in 1936 (he declined reappointment in 1941).
In 1932 Brown was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 11th District of Michigan, the first Democrat to be elected to Congress from that district. He was reelected in 1934 running approximately 10,000 votes ahead of his ticket. During his service in the House of Representatives, Brown was a member of one of its most important committees: Banking and Currency. Due to the banking crisis of 1933, this probably was the most vital committee in the House of Representatives in the first three years of the Roosevelt Administration. As a member of that important committee, he helped draft the legislation establishing many of the recovery agencies of the Government created to combat the depression. Some of these agencies are the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, the Banking Acts of 1933 and 1935 (including Federal Deposit Insurance). Brown was also active in the enactment of the legislation creating the Civilian Conservation Corps and several of the farm credit agencies which were under jurisdiction of the Banking Committee. In addition, Brown was a member of the first congressional committee created by House resolution to investigate duplication of Executive agencies.
Brown was elected to the Senate on November 3, 1936. Soon after his election, with the death of James Couzens, Brown was appointed to fill that unexpired term and so took office a few weeks early. Brown was chosen chairman of the 1938 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, also chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries, where he served from 1938 to 1940. In the Senate, Brown was chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims and a member of the following committees of the Senate: Finance, Banking and Currency, Commerce, Manufacturers, and Special Committee to Investigate Duplication of Executive Agencies of the Government. He was selected to be a member of the powerful Senate Democratic Steering Committee. This committee decides and directs the legislative program of the United States Senate and selects, as vacancies occur, Senators for appointment to the regular standing committees of the Senate.
In 1941, Brown was placed on the Commerce Committee. Also in 1941, he became chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims. As chairman of the Special Senate Committee on Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries, Brown was the sponsor of the legislation that brought about reciprocal taxation of salaries. Before, state employees were exempt from federal income tax, and federal employees exempt from state income taxes. Because of the legislation which Brown sponsored, all (both state and federal) were now subject to both taxes. In other words, state employees must pay the federal income tax and federal employees must pay the state income tax in states which have such a tax. His bill also imposed the income tax on all federal judges who had theretofore been exempt. Another piece of legislation which he sponsored did away with tax-exempt government securities. The income from federal government bonds is no longer exempt from taxation. For a long time the senator had advocated passage of legislation to tax the income from state, county, and municipal bonds. His amendment to the Tax Bill of 1939 sought to accomplish this, but was defeated by a narrow margin.
Brown had sponsored and acted as senate floor manager for most of the legislation broadening the lending authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The various corporations set up by the government to construct tank plants, gun plants, to build up rubber reserves, metal reserves, etc., were all created by legislation that Senator Brown sponsored in the Senate.
Brown also sponsored legislation continuing and broadening the Federal Housing Administration and was in charge of the price control legislation. He had been active in the work of the Senate Finance Committee and had been a vital factor in every tax bill written since 1936. He was in charge of the legislation authorizing issue of defense bonds and was insistent upon the inclusion in the Public Debt Bill of authority to sell bonds of small denominations, commonly known as baby bonds. This legislation was passed in March of 1941. His fight to enact a Price Control bill for the benefit of the American consumer had been highly commended by most informed authorities. Brown was chairman of the conference between the two houses of congress which put the bill in final shape.
Senator Brown was active in the "Aid to Small Business" bill. It came out of the Banking and Currency Committee, of which he was a member, and he was, as a member of the committee, active in support of the bill on the floor of the Senate. It provided for relief to small businesses through loans to assist them in getting work in the war program.
Senator Brown reported from the Banking and Currency Committee the bill entitled, "For the relief of dealers in certain articles or commodities rationed under authority of the United States." He also handled this bill on the Floor of the Senate and steered it to adoption by the Senate. This bill afforded relief to anyone dealing in rationed articles, but was primarily a measure of relief for the automobile and tire dealers who had been so adversely affected by the auto and tire curtailment.
Although he supported the Roosevelt Administration in its general policies, Senator Brown had by no means been a "yes" man in his service in Congress. Among the more important measures with which he had taken issue with the Administration was the following: the proposal to increase the membership of the Supreme Court; the first proposal to reorganize the Executive agencies of the Government; and the proposal to place the Civil Aeronautics Authority under the Commerce Department. Chief credit for defeat of the proposal to pack the Supreme Court was given to Senator Brown by Joseph Alsop and Turner Catledge, chief correspondents for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times respectively.
The Senator's opposition to the Reorganization Bill was based on his belief that it gave legislative authority to the executive. He proposed a compromise which was rejected. It is commonly said that the rejection of this compromise caused the defeat of the bill. Subsequently, the bill was reintroduced with Senator Brown's amendment which left final authority in the congress, although giving the President primary authority. The bill as amended was then passed.
Brown ran for re-election in 1942, but was narrowly defeated by Homer Ferguson. He attributed his defeat to two things. First, his sponsorship of the OPA Act had made elements within business and industry extremely unhappy. Price fixing and rationing in particular had upset a lot of people, especially within the business community. Second, the small voter turnout in the 1942 election was below average. The nation was at war; the voter turnout was light, particularly among the working classes; the Democrats simply did not go to the polls.
After the election, President Roosevelt selected Brown as the new administrator of the Office of Price Administration. He worked in this position from January to October of 1943, and only then returned to Michigan to pick up the threads of his law practice and many business interests. In 1944, Brown was elected chairman of the board of the Detroit Edison Company, a position he held until his retirement in 1954.
In some ways, Brown's "retirement" years were his most rewarding. Long a proponent of a bridge uniting Michigan's two peninsulas, Brown, as chairman of the Mackinac Bridge Authority, worked long and hard to obtain the necessary financing for the Bridge. In 1954, in what he always considered his greatest achievement, Brown received from the Union Securities Corporation a check for 96 million dollars. Construction began soon thereafter; and on November 1, 1957, the Mackinac Bridge opened for traffic. Brown spent the remainder of his life in bridge related activities, business affairs, and historical pursuits.
Brown was married June 16, 1916, to Marion E. Walker of St. Ignace, a graduate of Michigan State College. They had seven children: Mariana F., Ruth M., James J., Barbara J., Patricia J., Prentiss M., Jr., and Paul W.
Senator Brown died on December 19, 1973.
Collection Scope and Content Note
The Prentiss M. Brown Collection is rich and full and offers researchers materials on a variety of local and national topics reflecting the diversity of the man's private and public life. The earliest item in the collection is a letter book dated 1902-04 of James J. Brown, like his son a prominent St. Ignace attorney. The collection then picks up Prentiss M. Brown's entrance to the legal profession in 1917, traces his rise to public office, his work in Congress and with the O.P.A., and then concludes with his later business interests and his crusade upon behalf of the Mackinac Bridge.
The Brown Collection comprises approximately twenty-eight feet of correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, diaries, speeches, topical and legislative files, photographs and phonograph records, and legal case files and business records. Covering the period 1917 to 1973, the papers concentrate most heavily in the years 1932-1942 when Brown was in the U.S. Congress. The greatest gap in the collection is in the period of the 1920s when Brown was making his first bids for political office. Also missing are any extensive files for the time of Brown's O.P.A. directorship. What the collection has on the O.P.A. are largely speeches, scrapbooks, and congratulatory letters.
Subject Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the finding aid database and catalog of The Bentley Historical Library/University of Michigan. Researchers desiring additional information about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.
Banks and banking -- Michigan.
Bridges -- Michigan.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Ferries -- Michigan.
Mackinac Island (Mich.)
Mackinac Island (Mich.) -- Businesses.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Saint Ignace (Mich.)
Taxation -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945.
Legislators -- United States.
Mackinac Bridge (Mich.)
Mackinac Island (Mich.)
Offices.
Saint Ignace (Mich.)
Ships -- Great Lakes.
Caricatures.
Cartoons.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Sound recordings.
Videotapes.
Arnold Transit Company.
Brown, Prentiss M. (Prentiss Marsh), 1889-1973.
Democratic Party (Mich.)
Mackinac Bridge Authority (Mich.)
Michigan. Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority.
United States. Congress -- Elections, 1938.
United States. Congress -- Elections, 1940.
United States. Congress -- Elections, 1942.
United States. Congress. House.
United States. Congress. Senate.
United States. Office of Price Administration.
Albion College.
Arnold Transit Company.
Brown, James J.
Brown, Prentiss M. (Prentiss Marsh), 1889-1973.
City Hall (Detroit, Mich.)
Dodd, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1907-1971.
Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976.
Freeman, Orville L.
Gore, Albert, 1907-1998.
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986.
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
Javitz, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-
Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
Long, Edward V. (Edward Vaughn), 1908-1972.
McNamara, Patrick Vincent, 1894-1966.
Mansfield, Mike, 1903-2001.
Mackinac Bridge Authority (Mich.)
Moss, Frank E., 1911-2003.
Proxmire, William.
Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003.
Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979.
Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011.
Tufty, Esther Van Wagoner, -1986.
Udall, Stewart L.
United States. Congress. Senate.
United States. Office of Price Administration.
Abbott, Horatio J. (Horatio Johnson), 1876-1936.
Andrews, Roger, 1874-
Averill, George R., 1893-1971.
Avery, Sewell Lee, 1873-1960.
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956.
Bell, Jack L., 1904-
Bennett, Harry Herbert, 1892-1979.
Byrnes, James Francis, 1879-1972.
Cady, Claude Ernest, 1878-1953.
Cleary, Gerald J.
Comstock, William Alfred, 1877-1949.
Couzens, Frank, 1902-1950.
Couzens, James, 1872-1936.
Debo, Alfred.
DeFoe, Murl Holcomb, 1879-
Diggs, Charles C.
Dingell, John D. (John David), 1894-1955.
Downey, Sheridan.
Eccles, Marriner S. (Marriner Stoddard), 1890-1977.
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976.
Fead, Louis H., 1877-1943.
Fenlon, Edward H.
Fitzgerald, Frank Dwight, 1885-1939.
Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967.
Gomon, Josephine Fellows, 1892-1975.
Green, Fred W. (Fred Warren), 1872-1936.
Guffey, Joseph F., 1870-1959.
Hatch, Carl A., 1889-1963.
Hatfield, Malcolm Keith, 1900-1961.
Henderson, Leon, 1895-1986.
Hook, Frank Eugene, 1893-1982.
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955.
Hurja, Emil, 1892-
Jackson, Robert Houghwout, 1892-1954.
James, William Francis, 1873-1945.
Jones, Jesse H. (Jesse Holman), 1874-1956.
Kennedy, G. Donald (George Donald), 1900-1988.
Kimmerle, Charles H., 1860-
Kresge, Sebastian Spering, 1867-1966.
Lederle, Arthur F., 1887-
Lehr, John Camillus, 1878-1958.
Luecke, John, 1889-1952.
McAllister, Thomas Francis, 1896-
McKay, Frank, 1883-1965.
Mershon, Wm. B. (William Butts), 1856-1943.
Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946.
Murphy, Frank, 1890-1949.
Musselwhite, Harry Webster, 1868-1955.
Norris, George W. (George William), 1861-1944.
Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-
Osborn, Stellanova, 1894-1988.
Picard, Frank A., 1889-1963.
Reichert, Rudolph Edward, 1887-1965.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Shields, Edmund Claude, 1871-1947.
Smith, Gerald L. K. (Gerald Lyman Kenneth), 1898-1976.
Smith, Shirley Wheeler, 1875-1959.
Spence, Brent, 1874-1967.
Stack, John K., 1884-1935.
Starr, Raymond Wesley, 1888-1968.
Steagall, Henry Bascom, 1873-1943.
Toms, Robert Morrell, 1886-1960.
Treanor, Arthur Ryan, 1883-1956.
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951.
Van Wagoner, Murray Delos, 1898-
Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953.
Welsh, George Wilson, 1883-1974.
White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955.
Woodfill, W. Stewart, 1896-
Contents List
Request materials for use in the Bentley Library
Container / Location
Title
Biographical/family [series]
The collection begins with a small series of Biographical/Family Material about the life and career of Prentiss M. Brown. These folders of course should be supplemented with detailed information about Brown to be found in the Scrapbook and Clippings series. The series also includes a small folder of earlier family correspondence.
Box 1
Biographical material
(4 folders)
Box 1
Family correspondence
Correspondence 1930-1973 [series]
(2.5 linear feet)
The Correspondence series (2.5 linear ft.; 1930-1973) is made up of a mixture of legislative and business papers, letters from constituents, and personal correspondence. To aid the researcher, this series has been intensively indexed for significant correspondents. Noteworthy individuals in these files include politicians, public figures, and business people. Some of Brown's correspondents are: Horatio J. Abbott, Roger M. Andrews, George R. Averill, Sewell Avery, Alben W. Barkley, Jack L. Bell, Harry H. Bennett, James F. Byrnes, Claude E. Cady, Gerald J. Cleary, William A. Comstock, Frank Couzens, James J. Couzens, Alfred Debo, Murl H. DeFoe, Charles C. Diggs, John D. Dingell, Sheridan Downey, Marriner S. Eccles, James A. Farley, Louis H. Fead, Edward H. Fenlon, Frank D. Fitzgerald, John N. Garner, Josephine Gomon, Fred W. Green, Joseph F. Guffey, Carl A. Hatch, Malcolm K. Hatfield, Leon Henderson, Frank E. Hook, J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, Emil E. Hurja, Robert H. Jackson, William F. James, Jesse Holman Jones, George D. Kennedy, Charles H. Kimmerle, Sebastian S. Kresge, Arthur F. Lederle, John C. Lehr, John Luecke, Thomas F. McAllister, Frank D. McKay, William B. Mershon, Henry Morgenthau, Frank Murphy, Hary W. Musselwhite, George W. Norris, Chase S. Osborn, Stella B. Osborn, Frank A. Picard, Rudolph E. Reichert, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edmund C. Shields, Gerald L.K. Smith, Shirley W. Smith, Brent Spence, John K. Stack, Raymond W. Starr, Henry B. Steagall, Robert M. Toms, Arthur R. Treanor, Harry S Truman, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Murray D. Van Wagoner, Robert F. Wagner, George W. Welsh, Walter F. White, and W.S. Woodfill.
Box 1
Undated, 1930-June 1937
(53 folders)
Box 2
July 1937-1953
(58 folders)
Box 3
1954-1973
(38 folders)
Political files 1934-1956 [series]
(2 linear feet)
The Political files series (2 linear ft.; 1934-1956) consists of correspondence and campaign miscellanea documenting Brown's political activities in the period of 1934 to 1942. There is significant material here on the election campaigns of 1940 and 1942 and on Brown's work with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1938.
1934-1941 [subseries]
Oversize Folder Ac
Certificate of election 1934
Oversize Folder Ac
Appointment to the U.S. Senate 1936
Box 3
Campaign papers 1934-1939
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Box 3
Correspondence 1938
(4 folders)
Box 3
Financial material and newspaper clippings
Box 3
Campaign miscellanea
Box 3
Spring election January-April 1939
(2 folders)
Box 3
Campaign papers 1940
(6 folders)
Box 3
Campaign lists
(2 folders)
Box 3
Campaign miscellanea
Box 3
Campaign papers 1941
(2 folders)
Box 3
Campaign miscellanea 1941
Box 3
Democratic Senate Steering Committee 1941
Campaign 1942 [subseries]
Subject files
Box 4
Independent Michigan Editors' Committee Supporting Senator Prentiss M. Brown
Republican opposition
Box 4
Elton R. Eaton
Box 4
Homer Ferguson
Box 4
Gerald L.K. Smith
(2 folders)
Box 4
Offers of campaign help
Box 4
Tally controversy, St. Clair County
Box 4
Political bills paid 1942-1943
Box 4
Campaign contributors
(2 folders)
Box 4
Campaign checks returned
Box 4
"The National Campaign in Michigan" 1942
Dated files
Box 4
Undated 1942, January 1942-October 28, 1942
(36 folders)
Box 5
October 29, 1942-December 1942
(3 folders)
Miscellaneous
Box 5
Campaign miscellanea
Box 5
Campaign lists, schedules, and memos
Box 5
Newspaper clippings
Box 5
Financial material
(6 folders)
Box 5
Political papers 1954-1956 [subseries]
Legislative files 1933-1942 [series]
The Legislative files series (1933-1942.; 1933-1942) includes Brown's voting record in Congress and the record of bills which he introduced. This Legislative series also contains a great deal of material on specific legislation. Such files have been sorted by term of Congress, then by session in that Congress, and finally by the bill number. Although many of these files are on private bills (e.g. naturalization cases, relief of widows of Civil War veterans, etc.), there is also important material here on tax and banking legislation, the Mackinac Straits Bridge legislation, and legislation to amend the Hatch Act. These Legislative files are strongest for the period of 1936 to 1942, essentially the late New Deal and early years of the Second World War. As a rule, these files include a copy of the particular legislation, drafts of the bill, correspondence on the issue, and perhaps some related supplementary material.
Voting Record [subseries]
Box 5
Important domestic legislation 1933-1941
Box 5
Military and nation defense legislation 1935-1941
Box 5
75th Congress, 1st Session
Box 5
75th Congress, 2nd-3rd Session
Box 5
75th Congress, lst Session
Box 5
76th Congress, Special Session
Box 5
76th Congress, 3rd Session
Box 5
77th Congress, lst Session
Bills Introduced [subseries]
Box 5
74th Congress
Box 5
75th Congress
Box 5
76th Congress, lst Session
Box 5
76th Congress, 3rd Session
Box 5
77th Congress
(4 folders)
Legislation by topic [subseries]
Box 5
Transportation to Isle Royale National Park
Box 5
Michigan Commemorative Half Dollar
Box 5
Improvement of Crooked and Indian Rivers
Box 5
Technical Administrative Tax Bill
Box 5
Tax Legislation
(5 folders)
Box 5
Price Control Legislation
(3 folders)
Box 6
Auto financing: anti-trust action
(2 folders)
Box 6
Joint Congressional Committee on Forest Conditions
Box 6
1, 2, 3 National Steamship Co. Bill
Box 6
War Production Board: Protection for Iron Ore Transportation
Mackinac Straits Bridge Legislation [subseries]
Box 6
Dated files 1933-1942
(10 folders)
Box 6
Supplementary material
(8 folders)
Special Committee on Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries [subseries]
Box 6
Dated files May 1938-1942
(14 folders)
Box 6
Supplementary material
(8 folders)
Box 7
Supplementary material
(3 folders)
Legislative files (Bills arranged by Congress, Session, and Number) [subseries]
Box 7
72nd Congress, lst Session: H.R. 6198 Ross C. Ramsay
74th Congress, lst Session
Box 7
H.R. 1494, Improvement of Waiska River
Box 7
H.R. 1498, Rosa Striebich
Box 7
H.R. 7367, Receivers Attorney Fees
75th Congress, lst Session
Box 7
S. 1879, Reconstruction Finance Corporation and loans to cities
(3 folders)
Box 7
S. 2898, Airport bill
75th Congress, 3rd Session
Box 7
S. 1878, Mary Way
Box 7
S. 3387, Hubert J. Cuncannan
Box 7
S. 3388, U.S. Veterans Hospital for Gladstone
(3 folders)
Box 7
S. 3972, Liberty Bond Amendment
Box 7
S. 4021, U.S. Mail Train Service
Box 7
S. 4123, Homer P. Cota
76th Congress, lst Session
Box 7
S. 1379, Mackinac Straits Bridge
(2 folders)
Box 7
S. 1381, Charles A. Goetz
Box 7
S. 1383, Restriction of Alien Laborers
Box 7
S. 1384, Egon Karl Freherr von Mauchonheim
Box 7
S. 1385, Barkman Lumber Co
Box 7
S. 1387, Ida May Lennon
Box 7
S. 1390, Martha Bertha Rapin
Box 7
S. 1391, Delta Teachout
Box 7
S. 1714, Coast Guard Station at Keweenaw Peninsula
Box 7
S. 2045, Bank Examining Bill (special)
Box 7
S. 2275, Floyd M. Dunscomb
Box 7
S. 2276, R.G. Schreck Lumber Co
Box 7
S. 2277, Nicholas Contopoulos
Box 7
S. 2279, Grosse Ile Airport
Box 7
S. 2281, Viola J. Buchanan
Box 7
S. 2286, Detroit Arsenal Grounds Bill
Box 7
S. 2287, Relief of Natives of India
Box 7
S. 2927, Forest Restoration
Box 7
S. 2951, Joseph Henry Hudson
Box 7
S. 2969, Louise Thorne
76th Congress, 2nd Session
Box 7
H.J. Resolution 306: Neutrality Act Amendment
Box 7
S. 3316, Use of War Department equipment at American Legion Convention
76th Congress, 3rd Session
Box 7
H.J. Resolution 407, Trade Agreements Amendment
Box 7
H.J. Resolution 544, Relief Appropriation Bill Amendment
Box 7
H.R. 6324, Exceptions from Walter-Logan Bill
Box 7
S. 1164, Donald A. Jones
Box 7
S. 1970, Labor Practices Bill Amendment
S. 2471, Hatch Bill Amendment
Box 7
General
(7 folders)
Box 8
Testimony
Box 8
Roll Call
Box 8
S. 3441, Naturalization of Ilhan New
Box 8
S. 3591, Loans to Finland
Box 8
S. 3708, National Firearms Act
Box 8
S. 3709, Internal Revenue Code Amendment
Box 8
S. 3737, Patrick O'Connor
Box 8
S. 3932, Frank and Paulina Rublein
Box 8
S. 3934, Soo Bridge
Box 8
S. 3985, Securities Act of 1933 Amendment
Box 8
S. 4398, John L. Lavan
77th Congress, lst Session
Box 8
S. Resolution 124, Food for Small Democracies
Box 8
S. 854, Richard Bowers
Box 8
S. 899, Earnest A. McNabb
Box 8
S. 909, Cecile M. Franking
Box 8
S. 910, Development of Mineral Resources, Allegan County
Box 8
S. 956, St. Ignace Fish Hatchery
Box 8
S. 957/58 ,Glen Robinson
Box 8
S. 1010, Marine Training Base, Detroit
Box 8
S. 1130, Anna River Fish Hatchery
Box 8
S. 1131, Porcupine Mountains Forest Bill
(5 folders)
Box 8
S. 1162, Coast Guard Cutter for Mackinac Straits
Box 8
S. 1163, Katherine Caulley
Box 8
S. 1166, Daniel Steele
Box 8
S. 1167, Herbert Therrien Bill
Box 8
S. 1168, Elsie Frayer
Box 8
S. 1169, Minas Kirillidis
Box 8
S. 1170, Dionis Moldowan
Box 8
S. 1172, Alien Citizenship
Box 8
S. 1173, Alien Veterans Bill
Box 8
S. 1174, Chippewa Indians Bill
Box 8
S. 1175, Ruth Iola Goulette Pridham
(3 folders)
Box 8
S. 1176, Jacob Betzer
Box 8
S. 1177, William F. Pack
Box 8
S. 1214, John C. Shaw
Box 8
S. 1215, Fish Hatchery, Keweenaw Peninsula
Box 8
S. 1217, Herbert James Pike
Box 8
S. 1218 R.P, Helm
Box 8
S. 1230, Hospital Construction Act of 1941
Box 8
S. 1248/4, Isle Royale Bills
Box 8
S. 1408, Luedtke Engineering Co
Box 9
S. 1438, Extending authority of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Box 9
S. 1448, Canadian and British Vessels to transport iron ore between U.S. ports during 1941
Box 9
S. 1601, Coast Guard Light Station, Au Sable
Box 9
S. 1603, Banking Facilities at Military Preservations
Box 9
S. 1617, Employment Stabilization
Box 9
S. 2039, National Banking Association
Box 9
S. 2106, St. Mary's River Survey for facilitating light craft navigation
Box 9
S. 2107, Harriet Goodman
Box 9
S. 2131, Charlip Painting and Decorating Company
Box 9
H.R. 5000, Ferd W. Neile
Box 9
H.R. 5990, Emergency Price Control Act
Box 9
S. J. Resolution 161, Price Bill
Box 9
S. 1216, Henry Gabriel
Box 9
S. 2108, Detroit Post Office Clerks
Box 9
S. 2204, Canadian ships to transport iron ore on the Great Lakes during 1942
Box 9
S. 2285, Admiral Hart
Box 9
S. 2400, Overtime payments to employees under government contract
Box 9
S. 2472, Naming of Soo Locks
(2 folders)
Box 9
S. 2485, R.F.C. Subsidy Bill
Box 9
S. 2923, Tivoli Brewing Company
Patronage [subseries]
Box 9
Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship 1938-July 1941
(5 folders)
Eastern District of Michigan Judgeship
Box 9
Support for Arthur Koscinski
(5 folders)
Box 9
Support for miscellaneous candidates
(3 folders)
Box 9
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Upper Peninsula 1937-February 1940
(6 folders)
Box 9
Assistant U.S. Attorney for Detroit 1938
Box 9
Assistant U.S. Attorney for Bay City 1938-1941
Box 10
Military Academy Appointments (Charles K. Leech)
Box 10
Military Academy Appointment (miscellaneous)
Miscellaneous [subseries]
Box 10
Letters of thanks received for votes on bills and other legislative favors
(7 folders)
Box 10
Congressional Office Expenditures
Speeches, articles, etc 1911, 1937-1967 [series]
(3 linear feet)
The Speeches Articles, etc. series (3 linear ft.; 1911 and 1937-1967) consists mainly of speeches and background material used in the preparation of speeches. The speeches have been arranged chronologically by date on which the speech was first presented. Each folder usually contains a copy of the speech, earlier drafts, and correspondence relating to the presentation of the address, including feedback from his listeners and requests for copies. The speeches are primarily in the period of 1937 to 1943, but there are also later addresses. The earliest item in this series is an address which apparently Brown gave at his commencement from Albion College in 1911.
Articles [subseries]
Box 10
"Stop Tax-Exempt Securities?" Rotarian February 1941
Box 10
"Should We Pay As We Go?" Modern Industry Magazine March 15, 1941
Box 10
"Michigan, My Michigan" Pathfinder Magazine undated
News releases and related material [subseries]
Box 10
Various
(3 folders)
Speeches: chronological file [subseries]
Box 10
Fragments and undated
Box 10
Commencement Address, Albion College, entitled, "The Student's Debt to the Laboring Man" circa 1911
Box 10
Democratic State Convention February 20, 1937
Box 10
Supreme Court Reorganization, Mutual Broadcasting System March 2, 1937
Box 10
Commencement Day Address, Albion College June 7, 1937
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Bunker Hill Celebration and Banquet, Boston Mass. June 16, 1937
Box 10
"Forgotten Aspects of Judicial Reforms", Columbia Broadcasting System July 29, 1937
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Government Reorganization Bill March 27, 1938
Box 10
Naval Expansion Bill April 28, 1938
Box 10
Naval Expansion Bill: Supplementary material
Box 10
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee October 1, 1938
"Proposed Reciprocal Taxation of Government Securities," National Broadcasting Company May 15, 1939
Box 10
Speech
Box 10
Correspondence
Box 10
Jefferson Day Speech, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania April 13, 1939
Box 10
Wisconsin Jefferson Day Address May 6, 1939
Box 10
Washington College of Law Commencement Address June 9, 1939
"Neutrality"
Box 10
Radio Address October 5, 1939
Box 10
Supplementary Material
(2 folders)
Box 10
Maryland Historical Society Address, October 9,1939
Box 10
Charles A. Lindbergh and Canadian-American Relations October 20, 1939
Box 10
Jackson Day Dinner, Detroit January 8, 1940
Box 10
Ontario Section of the Canadian Bar Association January 27, 1940
Box 10
"Loan to Finland"; American Forum of the Air January 28, 1940
Box 10
American Jewish Congress, Detroit February 4, 1940
(2 folders)
Box 10
Speech to Americans of Polish Descent February 4, 1940
"Our Policy in the Finnish-Russian War," National Radio Forum February 26, 1940
Box 10
Speech
Box 10
Correspondence
Box 11
Jefferson Day Speech, Ebensburg, Penns.; Campaign for Senator Joseph Guffey
Box 11
Oakland County Jefferson Club, Pontiac April 18, 1940
Box 11
City-wide Women's Democratic Club, Baltimore, Mary April 25, 1940
Box 11
"The Government's Responsibility"; May 28, 1940
Box 11
"Tax for Defense"; American Forum of the Air June 2, 1940
Box 11
Democratic State Convention, Grand Rapids September 23-24, 1940
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"Some Federal Tax Problems"; Real Estate Board of Baltimore February 1, 1941
Box 11
Democratic Spring State Convention, Grand Rapids February 19-20, 1941
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Lend Lease Bill February 27, 1941
Box 11
Jefferson Day Dinner, Detroit March 29, 1941
Box 11
Speech to B'nai B'rith, Mackinac Is July 4, 1941
Box 11
Repeal of Sections of the Neutrality Act November 1941
Box 11
Tribute to Justice Brandeis, Balfour Day Celebration, Detroit November 2, 1941
Box 11
Price Control Bill, WJR January 1, 1942
Box 11
Michigan Sportmen's Congress, Detroit January 31, 1942
"Inflation, What Can We Do About It?" March 2, 1942
Box 11
Speech
Box 11
Correspondence
Box 11
Supplementary material
Box 11
Jefferson Day Speech, Pontiac April 9, 1942
Box 11
"Price Control and Inflation"; National Radio Forum, N.B.C. May 11, 1942
Box 11
"How Can We Best Curb Inflation?"; American Forum of the Air May 31, 1942
Box 11
"Price Control" Radio Broadcast, The Blue Network June 1, 1942
Box 11
Detroit College of Law June 9, 1942
Box 11
Western Michigan College of Education, Kalamazoo June 13, 1942
(phonograph record of speech also available)
Box 11
Price Control Act Amendment, WMAL September 16, 1942
Box 11
Senate Address September 24, 1942
Box 11
March of Time Address September 24, 1942
Box 11
Wage and Price Control Legislation, CBS Radio September 25, 1942
Box 11
"The Navy's Challenge for Service September 30, 1942
Box 11
Universal Newsreel Statement October 6, 1942
Box 11
Campaign speeches September 1942, undated
Box 11
Campaign speeches October 1-20, 1942
Box 11
Campaign speeches October 21-31, 1942
Box 11
Campaign speeches November 1942
Box 11
Campaign speeches (non-Brown) 1942
Box 11
Office of Price Administration speeches 1943 undated
Box 11
March of Tine January 21, 1943
Box 11
Washington Reports on Rationing February 14, 1943
Box 11
Radio speech February 16, 1943
Box 11
Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry February 18, 1943
Box 11
CBS Report to the Nation February 21, 1943
Box 11
Betty Crocker Program February 24, 1943
Box 11
Message on Black Markets February 26, 1943
Box 11
CBS "A & P's Food News Roundup" February 26, 1943
Box 11
WWDC Radio Program: Interview with Esther Van Wagoner Tufty February 27, 1943
Box 11
WWDC Radio Remarks March 2, 1943
Box 11
"Consumer Participation in Price Control and Rationing" March 16, 1943
(Phonograph record of speech also available)
Box 11
Omaha (Neb.) Chamber of Commerce speech March 17, 1943
Box 11
American Association of School Administrators March 19, 1943
Box 11
CBS Broadcast April 3, 1943
Box 11
Houston Chamber of Commerce April 12, 1943
Box 11
KTSA, San Antonio Radio Message April 13, 1943
Box 11
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce April 15, 1943
Box 11
WOL Radio Message on coal workers strike April 30, 1943
Box 11
"We the People" Radio Program May 9, 1943
Box 11
NBC Radio, "War Ration Book Three" May 27, 1943
Box 11
WRC Radio Speech June 24, 1943
Box 11
Earl Godwin Radio Program June 28, 1943
Box 11
Boston Chamber of Commerce July 16, 1943
Box 11
Boston Chamber of Commerce July 16, 1943
Box 11
WJR (Detroit) George Cushing Program August 7, 1943
Box 11
"Home Front Reporter" October 1, 1943
Box 11
Inland Daily Press Association, Chicago October 13, 1943
Box 11
Speeches January-September 1944
Box 11
Speeches October 1944
Box 11
Speeches November-December 1944
Box 12
Speeches 1945
(2 folders)
Box 12
Speeches 1946
(6 folders)
Box 12
Speeches 1947
(2 folders)
Box 12
Speeches 1948
Box 12
Speeches 1949
(6 folders)
Box 12
Speeches 1950
Box 12
Speeches 1951
(2 folders)
Box 12
Speech: Newcomen Society, Detroit, "Alex Dow (1862-1942) For 28 Years the President of Detroit Edison" May 8, 1951
(5 folders)
Box 12
Speeches 1952
Box 12
Speeches 1953
Box 12
Speeches 1954
Box 12
Speeches 1955
Box 12
Speeches 1956-1967
Speech Correspondence [subseries]
Box 12
1945-1950
Box 12
1951
Box 12
1952-1953
Box 12
1954
Remarks made in U.S. Senate [subseries]
Box 12
75th Congress, First Session
Box 13
75th Congress, Second Session
Box 13
76th Congress, First Session
Box 13
76th Congress, Second Session
Box 13
77th Congress, First and Second Session
Box 13
Requests for corrections in Congressional Record
Miscellaneous [subseries]
Box 13
List of speech invitations (accepted and rejected) 1944-1954
Box 13
Speeches (non-Brown)
Background materials for speeches [subseries]
Box 13
Automotive Industry
Box 13
CCC
Box 13
Education
Box 13
Labor Disputes (Judge Anderson Case)
Box 13
Cost of World War
Box 13
Cost of Government
Box 13
Crime and Courts
Box 13
Debt Limit
Box 13
Lend-Lease Bill Debate
Box 13
OPA
(3 folders)
Box 13
Miscellaneous
(5 folders)
Office of Price Administration files 1943 [series]
(0.5 linear feet)
The Office of Price Administration series (0.5 linear ft.; 1943) is small and consists largely of personal materials, such as speeches, scrapbooks, and congratulatory letters. The official records of the OPA are located in the National Archives in Washington.
Box 13
Regional Administrators meeting April 1943
Box 13
Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation fraud case 1943
Box 13
Dairy Industry Committee 1943
Box 13
Statement urging purchase of war bonds 1943
Box 13
Miscellaneous Price Material
Box 13
Resignation and final report October 19, 1943
Box 13
Letters of Congratulations (sample) upon appointment as OPA Administrator 1943
(4 folders)
Box 13
Appointment book January-October 1943
Box 13
Published government document material
(11 items)
Topical Files 1936-1968 [series]
(1 linear foot)
The Topical files series (1 linear ft.; 1936-1968) relates to Brown's varied historical and academic interests, such as his involvement with the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, the Michigan Historical Commission, and Albion College. Information about his travels are included here.
Historical Interests and Activities [subseries]
Box 14
Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission 1960-1966
(8 folders)
Box 14
Papers concerning review of "Furs By Astor" 1964
Box 14
Papers concerning anchor salvaged near Bois Blanc Is 1957-1958
Box 14
Papers concerning proposed discontinuance of rail car ferry service at Mackinac 1963-1964
Business and legal files 1902-1973 [series]
(8 linear feet)
A significant part of the collection documents Brown's business and legal interests. Business and legal files (8 linear ft.; 1902-1973) is especially valuable for information on Brown's banking interests and his involvement with St. Ignace and Mackinac Island land development. For the historian of the Mackinac Straits, these files detail the operation of the Arnold Transit Company, the firm which operated the ferry between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, and to Mackinac Island. Brown was for many years a member of the board of directors of the Arnold Company.
James J. Brown law firm, later Brown and Brown Law Firm [subseries]
Box 15
Letter book 1902-1904 of James J. Brown law firm; later letterbook, January-August 1917 of Brown and Brown Law Firm 1902-1917
Box 15
Letter book August 1917-March 1918
Box 15
Letter book March 1919-March 1920
Box 15
Letter book March-December 1920
Box 16
Correspondence 1913-1920
Box 16
Wills drawn up 1915-1928
(3 folders)
Box 16
Mackinac Island State Park Commission vs. David W. Murray (argument over the ownership of Mackinac Island Beach Front)
(8 folders)
Box 16
Papers concerning legal work for Charles Hessel circa 1912-1928
(3 folders)
Box 16
Papers concerning Charles Hessel Estate 1940-1943
Box 16
Irving Berlin, Inc. and Mrs. R. Van Allen Webster 1925
Box 16
Papers concerning legal work for the Murray family 1926-1928
(5 folders)
Box 16
Papers concerning legal work for William St. James 1927-1929
(4 folders)
Box 16
Papers concerning legal work for the St. Ignace First National Bank on the matter of St. Ignace State Ferry Dock Property 1931-1934
(2 folders)
Box 16
Estate of David Murray 1934
(2 folders)
Box 16
Estate of Rose Van Allen Webster 1935-1944
(8 folders)
St. Ignace office correspondence 1937-1943
(5 folders)
Box 17
Requests for contributions to charitable and other organizations
Box 17
Petoskey Cement Company
Box 17
Twin City Packing Company
Asam Motor Company
Box 17
1940-1942
Box 17
Supplementary material
Box 17
State Board of Law Examiners miscellanea
Box 18
Sault Ste. Marie First National Bank
Box 18
Federated Publications 1937-1939
Box 18
Federated Publications 1940
Box 18
Federated Publications 1941-1942
Box 18
National Bank of Detroit-loan correspondence
Box 18
National Bank of Detroit-miscellanea
Box 18
St. Ignace First National Bank 1933-1935
Box 18
St. Ignace First National Bank 1936-1937
Box 18
St. Ignace First National Bank 1938-1942
Box 18
St. Ignace First National Bank circa 1945-1965
Box 18
St. Ignace First National Bank circa 1945-1965
Box 18
St. Ignace First National Bank: Annual Reports
Box 18
Birmingham National Bank
Box 18
National Bank of Bay City
Box 18
Charlevoix County Bank
Box 18
First National Bank of Detroit 1935-September 1942
(15 folders)
Box 18
National Bank of Detroit miscellanea
(3 folders)
Box 18
Cheboygan Citizens National Bank
(2 folders)
Box 18
Michigan National Bank
Box 19
Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association
Box 19
Great Lakes Sugar Company
(2 folders)
Box 19
Lamborn Sugar Company
Paulding Sugar Company
Box 19
1932-1943
(6 folders)
Box 19
Tax Case
Box 19
Miscellanea
(2 folders)
Box 19
Union Lumber Company
(4 folders)
Box 19
Dunham Company
Box 19
Arthur A. Schupp
Box 19
Papers concerning Lake Superior Iron Ore 1947-1951
(2 folders)
Box 19
Bills paid
Box 19
Papers concerning gift tax problem 1935-1964
Box 19
Income tax material 1933-1942
Box 19
Income tax material 1945-1948
Box 19
Income tax material 1949-1950
Box 19
Income tax material 1951-1952
Box 19
Income tax material 1953-1954
Box 19
Family financial papers
(3 folders)
Arnold Transit Company files [subseries]
Box 20
1921-1942
(36 folders)
Box 21
1943-1973
(31 folders)
Box 21
Annual reports (incomplete) 1939-1952
Box 21
Annual reports 1953-1957
Box 21
Annual reports 1958-1963
Box 21
Annual reports 1964-1971
Box 21
Forms
Box 22
Mackinac Land Company papers 1926-1931
(4 folders)
Box 22
Susan Arnold Estate accounts
(7 folders)
Mackinac Island Hotel Company
Box 22
1921-1930
(8 folders)
Box 22
Reorganization 1930-1934
(11 folders)
Box 22
Straits Transit, Inc. vs. Union Terminal Piers, et al. 1964-1967
(4 folders)
Box 22
People vs. Tellefson (question of operating automobiles on Mackinac Island) 1935-1936
Box 22
Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Co. vs. city of Mackinac Is 1941-1942
(3 folders)
Box 22
Laura M. Gonser vs. city of Mackinac Is 1942-1955
Scrapbooks and clippings 1933-1954 [series]
(5 linear feet)
The Scrapbooks and Clippings (5 linear ft.; 1933-1954) series consists of thirty-seven scrapbooks and several folders of loose clippings. Composed mainly of clippings, many of the volumes also include programs and scattered photographs. The scrapbooks are mainly from the period when Brown was in the U.S. Congress.
The Visual Materials series consists of photographs of Brown and his family, also photographs accumulated during his public career. There is also a videotape of a Universal Newsreel film entitled "Price Control Bill Freezes Prices, Wages" and original editorial cartoons from the period when Brown was head of the OPA.
Photographs [subseries]
(additional photographs on walls of the Prentiss Brown Room at the Bentley Library)
Oversize Folder Ac
Detroit City Hall circa 1870
(includes copyprints of new city hall building and of ceremony moving into new building)
Box 28
Detroit parade and 250th birthday 1951
Box 28
Detroit Edison
Box 28
Mackinac Bridge
(see also photo of Brown, Senator John Kennedy, and G. Mennen Williams at Bridge in 1960)
Box 28
Mackinac Island and Arnold Transit Co
Box 28
Portraits and family: contains photos of Albion College baseball team 1908 and James J. Brown law office 1913 1908-1913
(see also oversize folder Ac)
Oversize Folder Ac
St. Ignace: view from hillside of St. Ignace and of St. Ignace Courthouse circa 1900
Box 28
Senator
(include group photo of Brown as member of the Truman Committee; Brown with John Nance Garner and Arthur Vandenberg, 1940; Brown with Alben Barkley and James Byrnes; and Brown speaking at the dedication of the Blue Water Bridge with Frank Murphy in background 1938)
Box 28
Miscellaneous
Videotape [subseries]
Box 28
"Price Control Bill Freezes Prices, Wages," October 5, 1943
(original nitrate film destroyed after copying)
(1 U-matic and VHS copy of film)
Editorial cartoons [subseries]
Oversize Folder Ac
Cartoons from the Evening Star drawn by C. K. Berryman relating to politics and Brown's work with the O.P.A.
(4 items)
Oversize Folder Ac
Cartoon from the Detroit Free Press drawn by Arthur Poinier relating to the O.P.A.
(1 items)
Sound Recordings [series]
Sound Recordings consists of an audiotape of a Detroit Edison function in 1953 and several phonograph records of speeches made by Brown.
Audio-tapes (reel-to-reel) [subseries]
Box 28
Detroit Edison dedication program December 18, 1953
(2 audiotapes (reel-to-reel tapes))
Box 28
Stenorett recordings of interview with Prentiss M. Brown 1967
(6 audiotapes (reel-to-reel))
(conducted by J. Fraser Cocks III)
Phonorecords [subseries]
Washington Reports on Rationing 1943
(Produced by the Council on Candy as Food in the War Effort under the sponsorship of the National Confectioners Association)
Box 29
Guest: Prentiss M. Brown February 14, 1943
(11 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guests: Claude R. Wickard and Harold B. Rowe February 28, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: Robert P. Patterson March 7, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: Paul V. McNutt March 14, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: Mrs. Phillip M. Crowlie and Harold B. Rowe March 21, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: Prentiss M. Brown March 28, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: William L. Batt April 4, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Report April 11, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: Roy Hendrickson April 18, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: Colonel Paul Logan April 25, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Guest: Joseph Eastman May 2, 1943
(1 phonograph record)
Other recordings
Box 29
Minute Man Spots, Prentiss Brown on defense savings bonds
(1 phonograph record)
Box 29
Speech on behalf of the Michigan Democratic Party October 31, 1940
(4 phonograph records)
Box 29
Interview at Omaha, Nebraska March 18, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Box 29
Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan June 13, 1942
(1 phonograph record)
Box 29
Speech at Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 16, 1943
(2 phonograph records)
Materials retained by the family have been copied. This Microfilmed Materials series (1932-1973; 12 rolls) includes diaries kept by Brown from 1942 to 1973. The microfilm was includes scrapbooks, the originals of which are described in the Scrapbooks and Clippings series. One of the microfilm reels consists of Brown material located in the Franklin Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York.
Diaries [subseries]
Roll 1
1942-July 2, 1944
Roll 2
July 2, 1944-1951
Roll 3
1952-December 1958
Roll 4
December 1958-1962
Roll 5
1963-1966
Roll 6
1967-1970
Roll 7
1970-1973
Appointment book [subseries]
Roll 7
1960-1973
Scrapbooks [subseries]
Roll 8
March 9, 1932-April 1937
Roll 9
April 1937-1940
Roll 10
1941-1942
Roll 11
1945-1954
Correspondence [subseries]
Roll 12
1937-1942
(originals in the Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York)
Additional Descriptive Data
Selective index to correspondents
Abbott, Horatio J. (Harold Johnson), 1876-
Jan. 1934, Nov. 1934, July 1935, Mar. 1936, Apr. 1936
Andrews, Roger Mercein, 1874-1943
(Pres.: Mackinac Island St. Park Comm.) Jan. 1934, Apr. 1934, Feb. 1935, Apr. 1935, Sept. 1935, Oct. 1935, Dec. 1935, Jan. 1936, Mar. 1936, Apr. 1936, Sept. 1937
(Chairman - Delta County. Democratic Comm.) Mar. 1933, May 1933, May 1934, June 1934, Nov. 1936, Aug. 1937, Sept. 1937, Feb. 23, 1939 in folder 3-46, Mar. 11, 1939 in folder 3-47
Comstock, William Alfred, 1877-1949.
Sept. 17, 1940 [In folder 3-51]
Couzens, Frank, 1902-1950.
Nov. 1936, Feb. 1938
Couzens, James Joseph, 1872-1936.
Jan. 1936
Debo, Alfred
May 1933, May 1934, June 1934, Jan. 1935
DeFoe, Murl Holcomb, 1879-
Mar. 1937, Apr. 1937, May 1937
Diggs, Charles Coles, 1922-
Sept. 11, 1940 in folder 3-51
Dingell, John David, 1894-1955.
(15th District, U.S. Congress) Nov. 3, 1937, Nov. 8, 1937
Downey, Sheridan, 1884-1961
(Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from California) Oct. 1938 [In folder 3-42]
Eccles, Marriner Stoddard, 1890-
(Chairman, Federal Reserve System) Dec. 19, 1942
Farley, James Aloysius, 1888-
June 1934, Nov. 1937, Dec. 1937, Mar. 1938, Aug. 1938, Aug. 30, 1940
Fead, Louis H 1877-1943.
(Michigan Supreme Court) Mar. 1933, June 1933, Mar. 1934, May 1934, Nov. 1934, July 1937
Fenlon, Edward H.
(State Representative - St. Ignace/Law Partner) May 1933, June 1933, Feb. 1934, Mar. 1934, May 1934
Fitzgerald, Frank Dwight, 1885-1939.
Oct. 1935, Nov. 1935
Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967.
Oct. 1938 in folder 3-42
Gomon, Josephine
May 1937
Green, Fred Warren, 1872-1936.
Dec. 1935
Guffey, Joseph F 1870-1959.
(U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania) Dec. 22, 1942
Hatch, Carl A 11889-1963.
Feb. 16, 1942
Hatfield, Malcolm Keith, 1900-1961.
(Judge - Probate and Juvenile Courts, St. Joseph) June 28, 1938, Feb. 8, 1939 (P), Apr. 7, 1939 [In folder 3-47]
Nov. 1934, July 1936, Aug. 1936, Nov. 1936, Dec. 1936, Jan. 1937, Feb. 1937, Mar. 1937, May 1937, Aug. 1937, Sept. 1937, Aug. 1938, Jan. 1939, Oct. 1939 Jan. 1940, Mar. 1940, June 12, 1940, Aug. 1940, Dec. 1940, Apr. 1941, Dec. 5, 1942, Mar. 11, 1943, Apr. 8, 1943 (Brown for Pres.), May 21, 1943, Jan. 26, 1945, Jan. 28, 1946, Apr. 17, 1942 in folder 4-14, May 1942 in folder 4-15
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Pres. U.S., 1882-1945.
Jan. 7, 1942, Oct. 3, 1942, Oct. 7, 1942, Nov. 7, 1942, Nov. 12, 1942, Dec. 7, 1942, Dec. 21, 1942, Dec. 17, 1942, May 29, 1936 in folder 3-39, 2 undated drafts of letters to FDR in folder 1-5, undated letter in folder 3-48, Oct. 28, 1940 in folder 3-52, Oct. 31, 1940 in folder 3-52, Oct. 29, 1940 in folder 3-52, Nov. 4, 1940 in folder 3-53, Nov. 7, 1940 in folder 3-53
Shields, Edmund Claude, 1871-1947.
(Lansing lawyer and politician) May 1933, Nov. 1934, Mar. 1936, Dec. 1936, 1937?, Jan. 1937, Feb. 1937, Mar. 1937, May 1937, Aug. 1937, July 23, 1940, Oct. 20, 1941, Apr. 8, 1942, May 5, 1943, Oct. 1943, Feb. 20, 1934 (P), Feb. 13, 1935 (P), Jan.-Feb. 1939 in folder 3-46, Mar. 1939 in folder 3-47, June 1940 in folder 3-50
