Papers of Henry A. Wallace (original) (raw)
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Biographical Note
HENRY A. WALLACE CHRONOLOGY
1888 - October 7 - Born on a farm near Orient, Adair County, Iowa
1910 - June 9 - Awarded B.S., Iowa State University, Ames
1914 - May 20 - Married Ilo Browne of Indianola, Iowa
1915 - September 18 - Son, Henry Browne Wallace, born
1918 - July 13 - Son, Robert Browne Wallace, born
1920 - Agricultural Prices
June 30 - Daughter, Jean Browne Wallace, born
1921 - March - Succeeded his father (who then became Secretary of Agriculture) as editor of Wallaces' Farmer
1923 - Corn and Corn-growing (with Earl N. Bressman)
1924 - October 25 - Father, Henry C. Wallace, died in office
1925 - Correlation and Machine Calculation (with George W. Snedecor)
1926 - Founded hybrid seed corn company
1929 - August-September - First International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Dartington Hall, Tomes, Devon, England
October 26 - Merger of Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead
1933 - March 4 - Takes oath of office as Secretary of Agriculture
1934 - America Must Choose, New Frontiers, Statesmanship and Religion
1936 - Whose Constitution?
1940 - July 18 - Nominated candidate for Vice President of the United States
September 4 - Resigned as Secretary of Agriculture
December 1 - Attended inauguration of Manuel Avila Camacho as President of Mexico
1941 - January 20 - Takes oath of office as Vice President
July 30 - Economic Defense Board established
August 28 - Supply Priorities and Allocations Board established
December 17 - EDB became Board of Economic Warfare
1942 - January 16 - SPAB became War Production Board
May 8 - "The Price of Free World Victory" (Common Man speech)
1943 - The Century of the Common Man
March-April - Latin American trip
July 15 - Board of Economic Warfare abolished
1944 - Democracy Reborn
May - July - Siberia-China trip
July 21 - Harry S. Truman received vice-presidential nomination
1945 - Sixty Million Jobs
Bought Farvue Farm, South Salem, New York
January 20 - End of vice-presidential term; nominated Secretary of Commerce
March 2 - Takes oath of office as Secretary of Commerce
1946 - Soviet Asia Mission
September 12 -"The Way to Peace" (Madison Square Garden speech)
September 20 - Resigned as Secretary of Commerce
December 16 - Editor of The New Republic
1947 - December 29 - Announced presidential candidacy
1948 - Toward World Peace
July 19 - Resigned as contributing editor of The New Republic
July 24 - Progressive Party presidential nomination
November 2 - Received ca. 1,157,000 votes
1950 - August 8 - Resigned from Progressive Party
1954, - February 11 - Uncle, Daniel A. Wallace, died
1956 - Corn and Its Early Fathers (with William L. Brown)
1965 - November 18 - Died at Danbury, Connecticut
November 22 - Final rites at Des Moines, Iowa, following a funeral service at Ridgefield, Connecticut, two days earlier, with interment of ashes at Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, the following day.
Scope and Contents
Photogra p hs: Series VII and scattered throughout the research files
Film/Video: Series I
Audio Material: Series I
Related Materials
Culver, John C. American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace. New York: Norton, 2000
Papers of the Progressive Party, MsC 160 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scua/msc/tomsc200/msc160/msc160_progressiveparty.html
Papers of Fred Stover, MsC 165 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scua/msc/tomsc200/msc165/stoverfredpapers.html
Papers of C. B. Baldwin, MsC 343 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scua/msc/tomsc350/msc343/msc343.htm
Papers of Lew Frank, MsC 369 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scua/msc/tomsc400/msc369/msc369_frank.html
Lazarus Photographs. MsC 543. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scua/msc/tomsc550/msc543/msc543_lazarusphotos.html
Truman, Harry S. Mr. President; the first publication from the personal diaries, private letters, papers, and revealing interviews of Harry S. Truman, thirty-second President of the United States of America. New York, Farrar, Straus and Young [1952]
Wallace's page at the US Senate:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Henry_Wallace.htm
Ms D383c Democratic National Campaign Committee Campaign Materials, 1936
Acquisition and Processing Information
This collection consists of several different donations. Among the earliest were those by Henry A. Wallace himself in 1954 and 1956. In 1953, 1954, and 1955 Henry's brother James donated papers, and in 1954 Donald Murphy donated his research and manuscript for a biography of Wallace. Beginning in 1965, Paul D. Richards and his mother, Gladys Richards, donated print material and photographs to the collection. They gave other materials to the University over several following years. These were followed in 1967 by an additional donation by Wallace's heirs: Robert D. Wallace, Annabelle Wallace McLay, John B. Wallace, Janus Wallace, Mary Wallace Bruggmann, Ruth Wallace Wilkman, Margaret W. Voorheis, Josephine Wallace Farrell, John Clarke Wallace, Ross Wallace, Jr., Wallace Ashby, Nanette M. Ashby, N. Eunice Ashby, and Genevieve Ashby Hoffman. In 1970, Mrs. Henry A.(Ilo) Wallace, and Wallace's children, Mrs. Leslie (Jean Wallace) Douglas, Henry B. Wallace, and Robert B. Wallace released another gift to the University.
Guide posted to Internet beginning in January 2004.
Box Contents List
Series I: Audiovisual
Series II: Clippings (See also the Donald Murphy sub-series under Research for more clippings)
Series III: Correspondence: The Wallace correspondence at Iowa is arranged chronologically. Large quantities of similar letters are also held at the Library of Congress and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library. With the help of a grant from the National Historical Publications Commission, all three collections were microfilmed in the early 1970s. At the end of the project, a printed index to the Microform Edition was published by the Libraries: The Wallace Papers: an index to the microfilm editions of the Henry A. Wallace papers in the University of Iowa Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (Iowa City: University of Iowa Libraries, 1975). Copies of this two-volume work are held in the Main Library Reference Collection and in Special Collections. Copies of the work can be borrowed from the Libraries (as can be the microfilms themselves); copies also remain available for purchase. For a reel-by-reel description of the Microfilm Edition of the Iowa Papers (which includes some materials other than correspondence), see Microfilm Edition. For a guide to the reel and frame numbers of the Library of Congress papers, see LC Microfilm.
Series IV: Government Documents
Books, booklets and pamphlets from Wallace's personal library. These are items left in the Wallace library in South Salem, New York, at Henry's death and gifted by his widow and children to the University of Iowa Libraries in 1970, with the addition to pamphlets found throughout the collection. The South Salem collection includes books on agriculture, money and income, and spirituality. Pamphlets having to do with Wallace's research are filed with his notes in the Research portion of the collection.
Diaries. Microfilmed as "The Diary of Henry Wallace, January 18, 1935-September 19, 1946." Microfilming Corp. of America, 1977. Microfilm 21490. Two reels.
Medical Papers. Correspondence between Wallace and his doctors, and among his doctors, regarding his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Gift of Judie and Peter Oschner. In Box 23
Murphy, Donald Murphy edited Wallace's diaries. This was apparently never published. These files are part of the research Murphy conducted during the editing of this book, along with a carbon copy of the manuscript. Some items concern Wallace directly, such as the clippings concerning his disagreement with Truman and his resignation as Secretary of Commerce; other items pertain to research around topics that Wallace dealt with, such as atomic power and China. There is also a carbon copy of the Oral History created by Columbia University in the early 1970s. These materials were donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Mr. Murphy in 1967.
Albertson, Dean. Dean Albertson conducted the oral history interviews with Wallace for the archives at Columbia University. This collection includes one folder of material he consulted and used in this project. The correspondence with Wallace has been removed and placed in the "Later acquisitions" portion of the correspondence series. What remains are two reprints of articles, one essay on Milo Reno of unknown authorship, and several typewritten statements, apparently written by Wallace, on controversial moments in his career. These are assumed to have been collected by Albertson because they were found in a folder with Albertson's name inscribed inside the cover.
Richards, Paul. Collection of Wallace autographs
Various theses, dissertations, lectures, school papers, etc.
Articles