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Title: Howard Palfrey Jones papers
Date (inclusive): 1930-1978
Collection Number: 74019
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
128 manuscript boxes, 3 card file boxes, 3 cubic foot boxes, 5 envelopes, 2 oversize boxes, 8 slide boxes, 2 motion picture
film reels, 12 phonotape reels
(63.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, reports, research files, studies, and printed matter relating to public finance and post-war reconstruction
in Germany, 1945-1951, and to American relations with Indonesia and other areas of East Asia. Digital copies of select records
also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Creator:
Jones, Howard Palfrey, 1899-1973
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 44 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials
must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection,
they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1974, with an increment received in 1982.
[Identification of item], Howard Palfrey Jones papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
| 1899 January | Born, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1921 | B.Litt., Columbia University, New York |
| 1923-1925 | Manager and Editor, Evansville, Indiana Press |
| 1925-1927 | Instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 1927-1929 | Editor-in-Chief, Nellis Newspaper Chain, Mt. Clemens, Michigan |
| 1931-1939 | Editor, National Municipal Review, New York |
| 1931-1938 | Executive Director, National Municipal League, New York |
| 1934-1938 | Director of Research, New York State Commission on Revision of Tax Laws, New York |
| 1933-1939 | Lecturer, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York |
| 1934-1935 | Lecturer, New York Institute of Banking, New York |
| Lecturer, Graduate School, New York University, New York | |
| 1938-1942 | Civil Service Commissioner, New York State |
| 1943 | Deputy Comptroller, New York State |
| 1943-1947 | Major to Colonel, General Staff Corps, U.S. Army |
| 1950-1951 | Director, Berlin Element, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, Berlin |
| 1951-1954 | Counsellor of Embassy and Chargé d'Affaires of American Embassy, Taipeh, Taiwan |
| 1954-1955 | Chief of Mission, U.S. Economic Aid Mission to Indonesia |
| 1955-1958 | Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Far East |
| 1958-1965 | United States Ambassador to Indonesia |
| 1965-1968 | Chancellor, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu |
| 1968-1973 | Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California |
| 1969-1972 | Trustee, Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1971 | Author, Indonesia: The Possible Dream |
| 1973 September | Died, Atherton, California |
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, correspondence, reports, research files, studies, and printed matter relating to public finance and post-war reconstruction
in Germany, 1945-1951, and to American relations with Indonesia and other areas of East Asia.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Motion pictures
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955
Diplomats -- United States
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany
East Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- East Asia
Communism -- Indonesia
Economic assistance, American -- Southeast Asia
Indonesia -- Foreign relations -- United States
Indonesia -- History -- 1950-1966
United States -- Foreign relations -- Indonesia
United States. Department of State
Soekarno, 1901-1970