Daniel Alden Reed papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1907

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and others, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous materials concerning taxation, tariff policies, and other aspects of the work of the House Ways and Means Committee, congressional elections, the Supreme Court reorganization bill of 1937, the work of the Office of Price Administration, the Civilian Production Administration, the Economic Cooperation Administration, and other government agencies, legislation on employment, immigration, naturalization, labor, education, and the postal service, such public questions as socialized medicine, foreign aid, universal military training, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Indians in New York State, and veterans' affairs; correspondence with his secretaries, Frank S. Cisna and Carl Willingham; Interparliamentary Union correspondence and documents (1939-1958); diary concerning Reed's trip to England and France as a member of the Food Conservation Mission; photographs of wartime scenes; correspondence and printed material regarding the Korean War; letters concerning the promotion and expansion of chambers of commerce, notably those in New York State, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Massachusetts; drafts of speeches Reed made at chamber of commerce meetings, scrapbooks and notebooks (1915-1957), family letters, material pertaining to Washington social activities, financial records, and other personal papers; photographs, citations, certificates, and other materials.

In addition, personal and family letters of D. A. Reed and his wife, Georgia Ticknor Reed.

Dates

1914-1960.

Creator

Reed, Daniel A. (Daniel Alden), 1875-1959. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lawyer.

Daniel Alden Reed received an LL.B. from Cornell University in 1898 and became a lawyer in Dunkirk, New York, 1900-1903; attorney for New York State Excise Department, 1903-1907; football coach at Cornell University, 1909-1918; member, Special Food Conservation Mission to France and England, 1918-1919; member of Congress, 43rd New York District, 1919-1959; member House Ways and Means Committee, 1933-1959, chairman, 1953-1954; chairman of Subcommittee on Social Security, 1948; and delegate to Interparliamentary Union, 1938, 1948-1950, 1952.

Extent

89 cubic feet. (89 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and others, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous materials concerning taxation, tariff policies, and other aspects of his work.

Physical Description

Correspondence, Newspapers, Legal Documents, Printed Materials, Photographs.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: May 10, 1991
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, November 2008
Date modified:: RMC Staff, March 2013