Description
Collection pertains largely to his
professional life at Stanford University and contains correspondence, both business and
personal; his master's thesis; materials for lectures; degrees, awards, and certificates;
and a Turrentine genealogy. General correspondence concerns financial investments, legal
issues (including estate issues), law curriculum, publication of his articles and books,
placement of law students, and personal affairs such as his health, offers of other teaching
posts, and Princeton and Harvard reunions. There is a substantial amount of correspondence
and memoranda from his work as a Compliance Commissioner for the War Production Board,
1942-44. Other topics include the Stanford Law Veterans Memorial Scholarship, the death of
Allene Lamson, Laisne v. State Board of Optometry, and the effect of World War II on the Law
School. Correspondents include Warren Christopher, Felix Frankfurter, Charles A. Beardsley,
John S. Bradway, Elliott E. Cheatham, Juan Enrique Geigel, Erwin N. Griswold, Moffatt
Hancock, Marion R. Kirkwood, Ray B. Lyon, Philbrick McCoy, D. O. McGovney, Roscoe Pound,
Owen J. Roberts, Malcolm P. Sharp, Fred Ames Weller, and Richard Wicks.
Background
Lowell Turrentine earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton in 1917 and his law degrees
at Harvard in 1922 and 1929. He practiced law in Cleveland and New York City and was
involved in the prosecution of the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandal, before joining the
faculty of the Stanford Law School in the fall of 1929. During World War II he served as
compliance commissioner for the War Production Board. He was acting dean of the law school
in 1945-46; in 1958 he became the first holder of the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professorship in
Law. He retired in 1961 and died in 1992.
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.