Register of the Harry Clabaugh Lamberton papers
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Title: Harry Clabaugh Lamberton papers
Date (inclusive): 1933-2019, bulk 1933-1954
Collection Number: 2021C12
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes
(2.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Harry Lamberton (1906-1961) was a lawyer and Assistant General Counsel in the Rural Electrification Administration, Solicitor
for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and active in numerous committees for democracy. The Harry
Clabaugh Lamberton papers includes documents, papers, and clippings relating to Lamberton's legal and political activities.
Creator:
Lamberton, Harry Clabaugh, 1906-1961
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2022.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Harry Clabaugh Lamberton papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Harry Lamberton (1906-1961) was a lawyer and Assistant General Counsel in the Rural Electrification Administration, Solicitor
for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and active in numerous committees for democracy. Lamberton
received his A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1928. In 1931 he earned his LLB
(Bachelor of Laws) degree and M.A. (Master of Arts) from the University of Virginia. The same year he married Anne Henderson
Michie and began to practice law.
In 1935, under the New Deal, he joined the National Recovery Administration as an attorney. That same year Lamberton was transferred
to the Rural Electrification Administration's (REA) legal division. In 1936, under Executive Order, the REA was transferred
to the Solicitor's Office of the Department of Agriculture. Lamberton was promoted to Assistant General Counsel for the REA.
After the transfer to the Department of Agriculture, his title changed to Chief Assistant to the Associate Solicitor and Chief
of Electrification Construction. In 1938 he was accused of advancing the cause for Communism by Congressman Noah Mason, a
member of the Dies Committee, and appeared before the committee in 1939. A Civil Service Commission investigator conducted
an interview with Lamberton in 1943. That same year he applied to the School of Military Government that prepared officers
for governing occupied territories following an Allied victory but did not receive an offer to join. Lamberton worked for
the Rural Electrification Division until 1947 when he started his private law practice. Lamberton represented individuals
cited for contempt of Congress. After World War II, he joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
(UNRRA) as Solicitor and Acting General Counsel to their Chinese program. He continued to practice law until his death in
1961.
Lamberton was active in numerous committees for democracy. He was chairman of the Washington, D.C. branch of the American
League of Peace and Democracy, an organization that supported Roosevelt's Quarantine and Aggressors policy. He was also active
in the Washington Committee for Democratic Action, the American Federation for Constitutional Liberties, the Lawyer's Guild,
American Friends of Spanish Democracy, the Washington, D.C., branch of the Progressive Party, and the Peace Movement to end
the Korean War.
Scope and Content of Collection
Harry Clabaugh Lamberton papers (1937-1954) includes documents, papers, and clippings relating to Lamberton's legal and political
activities, activities on communities for democracy, his work with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
(UNRRA), and material on the origin of the Cold War. There is also a copy of the 1943 Civil Service Investigator interview
that details his involvement with various committees and provides biographical information on Lamberton. Included in the collection
is a biographical sketch, written by his son, Benjamin, that includes an image of Lamberton.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Washington Committee for Democratic Action
American Federation for Constitutional Liberties
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Biographical File
1940, 2019
box 1, folder 1
Biography by Benjamin Lamberton
1940, 2019
Scope and Contents
Brief biography by Lamberton sons, includes copy of Civil Service Investigator interview, 1943, and photograph of Lamberton.
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
1940-1954
box 1, folder 2
"Lamberton Luncheons"
1940-1954
Scope and Contents
Includes statement regarding a lunch group Lamberton was involved with at the REA.
box 1, folder 3-4
Civil Service Investigator interview
1943
Scope and Contents
Interview regarding Lamberton's activities and Communism conducted while he was employed at REA.
U.S. Army Commission
1942-1951
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence regarding Lamberton's application to the School of Military Government and one page interview/profile.
box 1, folder 5-6
School of Military Government
1942-1951
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
1945-1954
box 1, folder 7
Board of inquiry, Park, Willard Z.
1945-1947
Scope and Contents
Includes affidavit and correspondence about Park's assignment in Ethiopia and UNRRA property.
box 1, folder 8
1946-1949
Scope and Contents
Includes Lamberton's resignation, correspondence thanking people for serving on committees, other committees (Including the
Lawyers Guild) and UNRRA activities.
box 1, folder 9
Misuse of supplies in Yugoslavia
1946
Scope and Contents
Includes press releases.
box 1, folder 10
UNRAA
1947-1948
Scope and Contents
Includes directory and correspondence related to the UNRRA, Chief Executive Officer's Staff meeting. Includes some reports
and correspondence related to the China Program and personnel action papers for Lamberton.
box 1, folder 11-12
China Program
1947-1954
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes
box 1, folder 16
Durr, Clifford
1948-1954
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Clifford J. Durr, former Assistant General Counsel, regarding his termination from the Farmers Union.
box 1, folder 13
Greece, district report
circa 1947
Scope and Contents
UNRRA distribution report.
Private Law Practice
1951
box 1, folder 14
Contempt cases, general
1951
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, court cases, and clippings.
box 1, folder 15
Contempt cases, opinions
1951
Scope and Contents
Includes court cases and clippings.
Organizations and Conferences
1937-1955, undated
Member organizations
1937-1947
Scope and Contents
Organizations that Lamberton was a member of and/or served on their committees. Includes correspondence, meeting minutes,
clippings, press releases, conferences attended, printed materials including brochures and flyers.
box 2, folder 1
General
1937-1941
Scope and Contents
Includes material on the Southern conference for human welfare, American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts, correspondence,
newsletter, Descendants of the American Revolution, American Civil liberties Union.
box 2, folder 2-4
American League for Peace and Democracy
1938-1943
undated
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties
1940-1945
box 2, folder 9-10
1940-1945
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, printed materials, press releases, and Executive Committee meeting.
box 3, folder 1
1940-1945
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, press releases, and Executive Committee meeting.
box 3, folder 2-3
Action letters
1940-1944
Scope and Contents
Includes various letters calling for action from the organization.
box 3, folder 4
St. Louis Chapter
1942-1944
Scope and Contents
Lamberton was a member of the National Executive Committee.
box 3, folder 5
National Labor Relations Board
1937-1938
Scope and Contents
Printed materials including pamphlets, Wagner Act material, and court case.
box 3, folder 7
Progressive Party, District of Columbia
1948-1950
Scope and Contents
Includes brochures, program material, meeting minutes clippings, and correspondence.
box 3, folder 8
Progressive Party, Maryland
1949-1950
Scope and Contents
Includes member list, clippings, and correspondence.
box 6, folder 6
Russian War Relief
1941-1943
Scope and Contents
Lamberton was Chairman on the Sub-Committee on Russian War Relief. File includes memos, correspondence, brochure, and clippings.
box 3, folder 9
United Federal Workers of America CIO
1938-1943
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, due cards, member's booklet, and brochures.
box 3, folder 10
Washington Committee for Democratic Action
1940-1941
box 2, folder 7
Czecho-Slovakia newsletters
1939-1941, 1948
Scope and Contents
Includes newsletters and clippings.
box 3, folder 6
Materials on peace
1951-1955
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings, speeches, press releases, Lamberton's notes, S. RES.139/140, and Friends Peace Committee.
box 2, folder 5
Arts, Sciences and Professions meeting
1948
Scope and Contents
Includes material from the meeting in New York city, material about preventing WWII, correspondence regarding Off-Record Conference
with Albert Einstein, and conference for Pattern for Survival.
box 2, folder 6
Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace
1949
Scope and Contents
Includes the program, correspondence, and clippings.
box 3, folder 11
American policy
circa 1942
box 4, folder 1
American reactionaries, clippings
circa 1943-1945
box 4, folder 2
Reactionary organizations
1950-1955
Scope and Contents
Includes mailings, brochures, correspondence, Committee for Constitutional Government, Iron Curtain Refugee Campaign, and
clippings.
box 4, folder 3
Church and State
circa 1943, 1949
Scope and Contents
Includes part of a congressional record and pamphlets.
box 4, folder 6
1941-1942
Scope and Contents
Clipping on Mrs. Charles W. Putnam and International Labor Defense newsletter about funding for Dies Committee.
box 4, folder 7-8
Disarmament
1957-1959
Scope and Contents
Includes speeches by Matterson on disarmament, press releases, newsletters, clippings, material about Weapons control, and
correspondence.
box 4, folder 9
Ferguson Committee, report on decartelization of Germany
1949
box 4, folder 10
Government Progressive clippings
1943
box 5, folder 1
Kerr Committee
1942-1943
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, list of members.
box 5, folder 2-3
North Atlantic Pact an Point Four Program
1943, 1949
Scope and Contents
Includes court cases, clippings, conference papers, press releases, memorandum of law, and booklets.
Origin of the Cold War
1942-1951
box 5, folder 4
War effort clippings
circa 1942-1943
box 5, folder 5
USSR
1946-1947
Scope and Contents
Includes printed materials and UNRRA correspondence regarding Ukraine and Byelorussia program, 1946.
box 5, folder 6
Origin of the Cold War materials
1947-1948
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings, mailings, and press releases.
box 6, folder 1
Latin America clippings
circa 1943-1944
box 6, folder 2
Miscellaneous clippings
circa 1942-1944
box 6, folder 3
Ober bill, Maryland
1949
Scope and Contents
Includes mailings, correspondence, flyers, court cases, clippings, and report.
box 6, folder 4
Propaganda
1947
Scope and Contents
Includes booklet on propaganda and comic book about Communism from the Catechetical Guild.
box 6, folder 7
Second Front clippings
1942
U.S foreign policy clippings
1933-1948
box 6, folder 12-13
Spain
1937-1946
Scope and Contents
Includes report, correspondence, brochures, flyers, mailings, pamphlets, and notes.
