Register of the Will Clayton papers
1880 Feb. 7 | Born, Tupelo, Mississippi |
1902 Aug. 14 | Married Susan Vaughan |
1904 | Co-founder, Anderson, Clayton & Co., Houston, Texas |
1918 | Member, Committee on Cotton Distribution, War Industries Board |
1940-1942 | Vice-President, Export-Import Bank |
1942-1944 | Assistant Secretary of Commerce |
1944 | Administrator, Surplus War Property Administration |
1944-1945 | Assistant Secretary of State |
1945-1947 | Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs |
1947 | Head, U.S. Delegation, United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, Havana, Cuba |
1946-1949 | Alternate Governor, World Bank |
1949-1961 | Vice President, Atlantic Union Committee |
1950 | Author, We Must Trade Sovereignty for Freedom |
1951-1954 | Member, National Security Training Commission |
1955 | Author, The Road to Peace |
1958 | Author, What Price Oil? |
1958 | Author, We Are Losing the Cold War |
1960 | Chairman, National Committee on Campaign Contributions and Expenditures |
1960- | Board of Governors, Atlantic Institute |
1961 | Co-Chairman, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO |
1966 Feb. 9 | Died, Houston, Texas |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1799-1986
General
General. Notes, biographical sketches, itineraries, clippings, and miscellany 1903-1986
Family background. Correspondence, legal documents, and genealogy 1799-1984
Susan Vaughan Clayton (Mrs. William Clayton). Certificate, biographical sketches, printed material, resolution, correspondence, and miscellany 1937-1978
Articles. List, speech, clippings, serial issue, and other printed material (includes Will Clayton: Economic Statesman, by William L. Garwood, Jr.) 1937-1978
Awards and honors. Correspondence, speeches (by George C. McGhee), newsletter, pamphlet, and resolutions 1949-1977
Testimonials and memorials. Pamphlet, printed material, programs, resolutions, correspondence, and a serial issue 1928-1983
General
General. Notes, interviews conducted by Ellen Clayton Garwood, partial list of speeches, clippings, and miscellany 1947-1986
Atlantic Union. Clippings 1949-1950
Common markets. Typescript and printed copies describing statements by Clayton 1960-1963
Cotton. Photocopies of printed articles from the ACCO Press 1930-1937
Interview, Typescript and letter 1925 Jan. 8.
Testimony, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Printed copy 1936 April.
"America's Stake in World Trade," Printed copy 1943 Oct. 25.
"How Will We Dispose of Surplus War Stocks?" Philadelphia Inquirer, Printed copy 1944 April 23.
Letter to the Editor, Life (unpublished?), Relates to surplus government property. Mimeograph copy with related letter 1944 Sept. 16.
Speech, Relates to surplus government property. Typescript 1944 April 30.
Speech, Relates to post-World War II economic development. Typescript 1944 Oct. 19.
"Comment on Dean Hoover's Study of International Trade and Domestic Employment," Typescript 1944 Nov. 18.
Statement, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Relates to confirmation as Assistant Secretary of State. Typescript 1944 Dec. 12.
Statement at Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Press release 1945 Feb. 27.
Speech, Relates to post-World War II foreign economic policy. Press release 1945 March 17.
Speech, Relates to post-World War II foreign economic policy. Press release 1945 March 24.
Testimony, House Ways and Means Committee, Relates to reciprocal trade agreements. Printed transcript 1945 April 20.
"The Foreign Economic Policy of the State Department," Press release 1945 May 21.
"Is UNRRA Doing Its Job?" Printed transcript of a radio broadcast 1945 Oct. 20.
"Proposals for Expansion of World Trade and Employment," Typescript excerpt with cover letter to James Byrnes 1945 Nov.
Testimony, Senate Appropriations Committee, Holograph copy of transcript 1945 Nov. 16.
"Answers to Arguments against the British Loan," Typescript c. 1946.
Speech, Relates to a proposed loan to Britain. Typescript 1946 Jan. 21.
"U.S. Information Service in Yugoslavia," Department of State Bulletin, Printed copy 1946 Oct. 6.
"The Foreign Economic Policy of the United States," Department of State Bulletin, Printed copy 1946 Nov. 24.
"Trade Agreement Negotiations," Department of State Bulletin, Printed copy 1947 Jan. 26.
Memorandum, Relates to post-World War II foreign economic policy. Holograph (photocopy) 1947 March 5.
Interview, Relates to proposed international trade organization. Press release 1947 Nov. 22.
Interview, Relates to proposed international trade organization. Press release 1947 Nov. 26.
Speech at United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, Typescripts and memorandum 1947 Nov. 27.
Statement, Houston Post, Relates to Atlantic Union. Printed copies 1949 April.
"The Atlantic Pact is a Natural and Necessary Step on the Road to Federal Union," Printed copy 1949 June.
Letter to the Editor, Freedom and Union, Printed copy 1949 Oct.
"The Economic Position of Western Europe Demands Complete Integration either with North America or Communist Russia," Typescript c. 1950.
Speech, Relates to a proposed Japan International Christian University. Mimeograph 1950 April 25.
Speech, Relates to the Atlantic Union. Typescript and clipping 1950 June 2.
Memorandum, Relates to Atlantic Union and the Korean War. Typescript with cover letter 1950 Aug. 25.
Speech, Texas State Legislature, Typescript 1951 March 6.
"Destiny of America is Linked Insolubly with West Europe," Wichita Sunday Beacon, Printed copy 1951 March 18.
"The Road to Peace," Printed copy 1951 April 1.
Universal Military Training: Foundation of Enduring National Strength, Pamphlet 1951 Oct.
Testimony, U.S. Congress, Relates to National Security Training Corps Act. Mimeograph copy 1952 Jan. 15.
Reply to Walter Lippmann, Relates to U.S. foreign policy. Mimeograph 1952 Feb. 26.
Letter to the Editor, Houston Post, Printed copy 1958 Dec. 4.
Letter to the Editor, New York Times, Printed copy 1959 Aug. 2.
"Foreign Policy," Typescript, correspondence, and a typescript copy of a clipping 1960.
"Tariffs and Trade," Western Business Review, Printed copy 1960 Aug.
"Uniquely Equipped," Printed copy relating to the Atlantic Council c. 1961.
Memorandum, Relates to international trade. Typescript 1961 Jan. 5.
"A New Look at Foreign Economic Policy," Joint statement with Christian Herter to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Printed copy with letter 1961 Oct. 23.
"Atlantic Convention of NATO Nations," Mimeograph copy 1962 Jan. 10.
"U.S. Relations with the Common Market," Mimeograph copy 1962 Feb. 20.
"U.S. Trade and the Common Market," Headline Series, Printed copy 1962 July-Aug.
"The European Common Market," Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association, Printed copy 1962 Nov.
"GATT, the Marshall Plan, and OECD," Political Science Quarterly, Printed copy 1963 Dec.
Statement, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, Mimeograph copy 1964 Jan. 16.
Excerpts from congressional testimony relating to Atlantic Union, Freedom and Union, Printed copies 1966 April-June.
The Testament of Will Clayton, Pamphlet 1968.
CORRESPONDENCE 1896-1978
General
General
Letters by William Clayton and others. Includes material relating to the Garwood biography 1896-1965
Letters to Susan Vaughan Clayton 1901-1902
Letters to Ellen Clayton Garwood. Miscellaneous,
SEE ALSO: GARWOOD BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL FILE/ Correspondence
1944-1969.
Letters relating to William Clayton (primarily sympathy) 1966
Clayton family
General 1898-1972
Clayton, Benjamin (brother) 1931-1971
Clayton, Martha Fletcher Burdine (mother) 1896-1905
Clayton, Susan Vaughan (wife). Outgoing
1899 Sept.-Dec.
1900 Jan.-Aug.
1900 Sept.-1901 Feb.
1901 Feb.-Sept.
1901 Oct.-1902 Aug.
Clayton, Susan Vaughan. Incoming
Undated
1897-1900 June
1900 July-1901 April
1901 May-Dec.
1902 Jan.-May
1902 June-1922
1923-1940
Garwood, Ellen Clayton (daughter) 1918-1966
McAshan, Susan Clayton, Burdine Clayton Johnson, and Julia Clayton Baker (daughters) 1919-1956
Alsop, Joseph and Stewart 1958-1959
Baruch, Bernard 1955
Bohlen, Charles 1958-1968
Bradley, Omar N. 1966-1967
Burleson, Omar 1962
Bush, George 1968
Church, Frank 1967-1968
Collado, Emilio G. 1958
Connally, John 1966
Drummond, Roscoe 1962
Duke, Angier Biddle 1962
Dulles, Allen 1966
Eastland, James O. 1978
Fowler, Henry 1965
Fulbright, J. William 1956-1966
Harriman, Averell 1966
Herter, Christian 1959-1966
Hey, W.A. van den 1947
Humphrey, Hubert H. 1965
Irvine, Reed 1978
Javits, Jacob 1965
Johnson, Lyndon 1950-1965
Kefauver, Estes 1959-1961
Kennan, George 1958
Kennedy, John F. 1962
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. 1965-1966
MacArthur, Douglas 1958
McGhee, George 1970
McCloy, John J. 1966
Mahon, George 1962
Marshall, Katherine (Mrs. George C.) 1958
Mason, Edward 1969
Monnet, Jean 1959-1962
Murphy, Robert 1964-1965
Nitze, Paul H. 1958
Norstad, Lauris 1966
Poague, W.R. 1962
Rayburn, Sam 1955-1961
Roper, Elmo. Includes typescript and printed articles and letters from Hubert Humphrey and James Reston 1962-1968
Rostow, Walt W. 1969
Rusk, Dean 1960-1966
Thomas, Albert 1964-1965
Tower, John 1965-1969
Truman, Harry S. 1955-1970
Vandenberg, Arthur 1948
Villard, Oswald Garrison, Includes typescript and printed article 1947-1948.
White, William S. 1959-1961
Yarborough, Ralph W. 1959-1966
General. Promotional material, clippings, printed article, and miscellany 1959-1972
Correspondence
General 1954-1989
Garwood biography, Will Clayton: A Short Biography 1953-1987
Rice University. Relates to the collection of William Clayton papers and their publication as The Public Papers of William L. Clayton 1966-1974
Notes. Background material for Mrs. Garwood's book, ;
SEE ALSO: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS/Interviews
c. 1957-1967
SUBJECT FILE 1898-1990
General. Clippings 1961
Atlantic Union
Correspondence. Clarence Streit, Walden Moore, and others 1949-1977
General. Clippings, printed articles (by Max Eastman and others), pamphlets, leaflet, programs, speech, newsletters, notes, serial issues, and miscellany 1949-1969
Committee on the Present Danger. Clippings, speeches, and membership list 1950-1951
Cotton. Statement, history of Anderson, Clayton & Co., printed articles, clippings, serial issues, reports, correspondence, notes, and miscellany 1898-1979
European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan)
General. Memoranda and notes by Will Clayton, speeches, serial issue, letters, printed material, and bulletins, with Dean Acheson, Will Clayton, Emilio Collado, Lewis Douglas, Livingston Merchant, Norman Ness, Paul Nitze, Arthur Stevens, James Stillwell, Leroy Stinebower, and Ivan White, 1962 1947-1990
Columbia University, Oral History Project. Interviews
Russia. Notes by Will Clayton c. 1922-1923
Trade
General. Letter to the editor by Ellen Clayton Garwood, pamphlets, report, letter, speeches, printed articles, press release, memorandum, and clippings 1947-1986
United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, Havana, Cuba, Clippings, position papers, a copy of the charter agreement establishing the International Trade Organization, and a printed article ("The Promise of the World Trade Charter," by Clair Wilcox) 1947-1948. 1947-1949
Wilson, Harold. Letter, program and text of three lectures given for the William Clayton lecture series at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University 1971
World War II. Printed article relating to war surplus, and book reviews 1944-1960
PHOTOGRAPHS circa 1899-1960
15 prints, primarily of William Clayton and Susan Vaughan Clayton