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Title: | White, Leonard D. Papers |
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Dates: | 1913-2002 |
Size: | 10 linear feet (20 boxes) |
Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
Abstract: | Leonard D. White, Department of Political Science, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor of Public Administration, University of Chicago, 1920-1958. The Leonard D. White papers include correspondence, reports, minutes, publications, reprints, and notes relating to White’s time at the University of Chicago as well as to his service on local and national government committees, such as the Chicago Civil Service Commission, the United States Civil Service Commission, and the President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement. |
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Leonard Dupee White, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor of Public Administration at the University of Chicago, was born in Massachusetts in 1891. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Dartmouth in 1915 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1921. He taught at Clark College, Dartmouth, and the University of Chicago, where he remained until his death in 1958. Within the field of government, White was primarily interested in public administration. He was one of the first to teach this subject in a university classroom and even in the early 1920s was becoming a leader among the political scientists who shared this interest. His Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, first published in 1926 and revised in 1939, 1948, and 1955, was the first, and for many years the preeminent, textbook in the field.
Professor White served on various governmental committees, both at the local and national levels. From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Chicago Civil Service Commission. From 1934-1937 he served on the United States Civil Service Commission and the Central Statistics Board. As a commissioner, White was primarily responsible for developing a system of junior civil service examinations, for college graduates only, intended to draw better educated persons into governmental careers. To help government employees provide better service and advance professionally, he worked with American University to develop a program of in-service training for them. In 1939 President Roosevelt appointed him to the Committee on Civil Service Improvement, under the chairmanship of the Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, on which he served until 1941. Additionally, White worked with both of the Hoover Commissions on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, the first in 1948-1949 and the second in 1953-1955. In both cases he helped to prepare the report on personnel management, which advocated the creation of a career executive program. It was initiated by executive order in 1957 to help identify, retrain, and advance government employees who should be moved into positions of greater responsibility.
Within the University of Chicago, Professor White also served as a member of the Trustee-Senate Committee on Academic Reorganization (1943-1945), on which he served as Chairman of the Senate Committee; a member of the University Council and Spokesman of the Committee of the Council (1945-1946); and a member of the Senate Advisory Committee to the Board of Trustees in the selection of a new chancellor (1950-1951).
This collection documents Leonard D. White's work at the University of Chicago, as well as to his service on local and national government committees, such as the Chicago Civil Service Commission, the United States Civil Service Commission, and the President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement.
Series I: Biographical Files, is organized alphabetically and contains materials relating to the life and career of Leonard D. White. This series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, journal articles, memorials, educational memorabilia, papers from the Department of Political Science, as well as materials related to his honors and awards.
Series II: Chicago Civil Service Commission, contains materials collected during White’s time serving on the Chicago Civil Service Commission from 1931-1934. Files in this series are arranged alphabetically, and include correspondence, journal articles, and speech drafts.
Series III: United States Civil Service Commission, contains materials from White’s time serving on this commission from 1934-1937. Included in this series are correspondence, reports, papers, invitations and newspaper clippings. Files in this series are organized alphabetically.
Series IV: President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, deals primarily with White’s service on the committee. This series begins with drafts of reports, minority recommendations, and press releases from 1939-1941; following are documents from 1939-1941 dealing with legal positions, administrators, economists and engineers. Following in boxes 9-12 are documents identified by numbers given by the Committee during its deliberations; a guide to these document numbers can be found in Box 9, Folder 5. Following are reports and correspondence from 1934-1943; memoranda from the Hoover Commission, from 1952-1954; reports of the proceedings and hearings of the Committee from 1939; and minutes of the executive sessions of the Committee from 1940-1941.
Series V: University Senate, contains correspondence, reports, minutes, and memoranda relating to the University of Chicago's Trustee-Senate Committee on Academic Reorganization (1943-1945), the University Council and Committee of the Council (1945-1946), and the Senate Advisory Committee to the Board of Trustees in the selection of a new chancellor (1950-1951). This series is organized in two alphabetical sections. The first contains the files pertaining to the Trustee Senate Committee, including material on academic reorganization and chancellor candidates. The second alphabetical section contains White’s general files from the University Senate, including reports, drafts, memos, and correspondence.
Series VI: Drafts, Reports and Publications, is organized alphabetically and contains a selection of publications White contributed to. Some reports from White’s time serving on various governmental committees can be found in this series, such as the “Report of President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement” which is located in Box 17 Folder 4. A collection of White’s reprints, from 1921-1941, as well as drafts of some of his works can also be found here.
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Series I: Biographical File |
Box 1 Folder 1 | Addams, Jane, correspondence, 1927 |
Box 1 Folder 2 | American Society for Public Administration, presidency, congratulations, correspondence, 1947 |
Box 1 Folder 3 | Bancroft Prize, congratulations, acknowledgments, newspaper clippings, 1955 |
Box 1 Folder 4 | Biographical and personnel records, 1948-1952 |
Box 1 Folder 5 | Christian Science Monitor article, 1942 |
Box 1 Folder 6 | Correspondence, 1951-1958 |
Box 1 Folder 7 | Correspondence regarding illness, 1956 |
Box 1 Folder 8 | Department of Political Science, retirement, 1956 |
Box 1 Folder 9 | Department of Political Science, departmental salutation (humorous), 1938 |
Box 1 Folder 10 | Department of Political Science, Distinguished Service Professorship, congratulations, acknowledgments, 1955 |
Box 1 Folder 11 | Department of Political Science, departmental matters, 1939-1956 |
Box 1 Folder 12 | Department of Political Science, resignation from chairmanship, correspondence, 1948 |
Box 1 Folder 13 | Education, high school reunion, correspondence and clippings, 1934 |
Box 1 Folder 14 | Education, college and graduate school memorabilia and course records, 1913-1922 |
Box 1 Folder 15 | Education, "A Study of the 1913 Session of the General Court of New Hampshire," thesis, 1914 |
Box 1 Folder 16 | Education, papers, 1913-1917 |
Box 2 Folder 1 | Education, "Origin of the Utility Commissions in Massachusetts," dissertation, 1921 |
Box 2 Folder 2 | The Federalists, A Study in Administrative History, Woodrow Wilson Award, 1948 |
Box 2 Folder 3 | Forrestal, James, correspondence, 1946 |
Box 2 Folder 4 | Good Government, profile, 1945 |
Box 2 Folder 5 | Guggenheim Fellowship, application materials, correspondence, 1927 |
Box 2 Folder 6 | Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, correspondence, 1936 |
Box 2 Folder 7 | Hoover, Herbert, correspondence, 1948-1949 |
Box 2 Folder 8 | Hoover Commission, citation, 1955 |
Box 2 Folder 9 | Hoover Commission, correspondence, 1953-1955 |
Box 2 Folder 10 | International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Honorary Vice- President, correspondence, 1947 |
Box 2 Folder 11 | Letterhead samples, undated |
Box 2 Folder 12 | Loyalty Review Board, appointment, acknowledgment, newspaper clippings, 1950 |
Box 2 Folder 13 | Memorial publications and obituaries, 1958 |
Box 2 Folder 14 | Memorial publications and obituaries, 1958-1959 |
Box 2 Folder 15 | Memorial publications and obituaries, David L. Jickling, "Remembering Leonard D. White," 1996 |
Box 3 Folder 1 | Memorial publications and obituaries, David L. Jickling, "Remembering Leonard D. White," proofs, 1996 |
Box 3 Folder 2 | Memorial publications and obituaries, David L. Jickling, "Remembering Leonard D. White," correspondence and research material, 1995 |
Box 3 Folder 3 | Newspaper clippings, 1950-1956 |
Box 3 Folder 4 | Order of Leopold II, decoration as Commander, 1948 |
Box 3 Folder 5 | Photographs, 1930-1955 |
Box 3 Folder 6 | Political Science Association, correspondence, programs, minutes, 1944 |
Box 3 Folder 7 | Princeton University, honorary LL.D., congratulations, commencement program, 1952 |
Box 3 Folder 8 | Pulitzer Prize, correspondence, newspaper clippings, 1959 |
Box 3 Folder 9 | Retirement, correspondence, 1956 |
Box 3 Folder 10 | Roosevelt, Franklin D., correspondence, 1934-1939 |
Box 3 Folder 11 | Roosevelt, Franklin D., memoranda, 1934-1935 |
Box 3 Folder 12 | Social Sciences Building, 25th anniversary, correspondence, 1955 |
Box 3 Folder 13 | Social Sciences Building, 25th anniversary, articles, brochures, newspaper clippings, 1955-1956 |
Box 3 Folder 14 | Speaking engagements, 1934-1956 |
Box 3 Folder 15 | Stockberger Award, congratulations, acknowledgments, newspaper clippings, address, 1955 |
Box 3 Folder 16 | "Toward a New U.S. Civil Service," 1934 |
Box 4 Folder 1 | University of Chicago Magazine, Senate-Trustee Committee, article, 1946 |
Box 4 Folder 2 | Will, 1951 |
Series II: Chicago Civil Service Commission |
Box 4 Folder 3 | Chicago Civil Service Commission, appointment, congratulations, 1931 |
Box 4 Folder 4 | Chicago Civil Service Commission, journal, 1931 May 14 - 1931 October 1 |
Box 4 Folder 5 | Chicago Civil Service Commission, journal, 1931 Oct 3 - 1933 April 27 |
Box 4 Folder 6 | Chicago Civil Service Commission, journal, loose-leaf copy, 1931 May 14 - 1933 April 27 |
Box 4 Folder 7 | Chicago Civil Service Commission, journal, monthly memoranda, 1931-1933 |
Box 4 Folder 8 | Chicago Civil Service Commission, speech, 1934 April 5 |
Series III: United States Civil Service Commission |
Box 4 Folder 9 | United States Civil Service Commission, appointment, newspaper clippings, 1934-1935 |
Box 4 Folder 10 | United States Civil Service Commission, Conspectus, 1934 Sep 1 |
Box 5 Folder 1 | United States Civil Service Commission, invitations, correspondence, 1935-1937, undated |
Box 5 Folder 2 | United States Civil Service Commission, Munich, Berlin, Warsaw trip, schedules, programs, correspondence, 1936 Jul |
Box 5 Folder 3 | United States Civil Service Commission, resignation from, newspaper clippings, 1937-1941 |
Box 5 Folder 4 | United States Civil Service Commission, Washington Post caricatures and related newspaper clippings, 1934-1937 |
Box 6 Folder 1-2 | United States Civil Service Commission, papers, 1937 |
Box 6 Folder 3 | United States Civil Service Commission, reports on merit system, 1937 |
Series IV: President's Committee on Civil Service Improvement |
Box 6 Folder 4-6 | Preliminary documents for the President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement (with Table of Contents) 1939 |
Box 7 Folder 1-2 | Tentative draft of report, September, 1939 |
Box 7 Folder 3 | Tentative draft of report, 2nd revised copy, undated |
Box 7 Folder 4 | Tentative draft of report, undated |
Box 7 Folder 5 | Alternative drafts of two chapters of tentative report, undated |
Box 7 Folder 6 | Report of President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, April 20, 1940, but revised as of January 21, 1941 |
Box 8 Folder 1 | Printed Report of President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, 77th Congress, 1st Session, House Document Number 118, February, 1941 |
Box 8 Folder 2 | Minority Recommendations for the Selection of Government Attorneys, January 23, 1941 |
Box 8 Folder 3 | Statement by Mr. Justice Frank Murphy as a supplement to the Report of the Committee, undated |
Box 8 Folder 4 | Press release on issuance of report, 1941 |
Box 8 Folder 5 | Reviews of committee report, 1941 |
Box 8 Folder 6 | Newspaper clippings dealing with committee, 1939-1941 |
Box 8 Folder 7 | Materials concerning Inland Waterways Corporation, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 8 | Data on administrators, undated |
Box 8 Folder 9 | Material concerning Veterans’ Preference, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 10 | Data on economists, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 11 | Material concerning engineers and economists, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 12 | Material dealing with examinations, 1939-1941 |
Box 8 Folder 13 | Documents concerning the Civil Service Commission and its work, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 14 | Report on administrative personnel, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 15 | Documents on State, War and Navy Departments, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 16 | Reports on state civil service recruitment, 1939 |
Box 8 Folder 17 | Material concerning legal positions, 1939-1941 |
Box 9 Folder 1 | Material concerning legal positions, 1939-1941 |
Box 9 Folder 2 | Transcript of hearings before the Committee, 1939 |
Box 9 Folder 3 | Documents and reports, 1938-1940 |
Box 9 Folder 4 | L. D. White longhand notes on Committee report, undated |
Box 9 Folder 5 | Schedule of miscellaneous material assembled for the use of the Committee, Document numbers 1-161 |
Box 9 Folder 6 | Document number 1 |
Box 9 Folder 7 | Document numbers 3, 5, 6 |
Box 9 Folder 8 | Document numbers 11, 14 |
Box 9 Folder 9 | Document numbers 17, 18, 22 |
Box 9 Folder 10 | Document numbers 24, 28, 29 |
Box 9 Folder 11 | Document number 30 |
Box 9 Folder 12 | Document numbers 31, 32 |
Box 9 Folder 13 | Document numbers 37, 38 |
Box 10 Folder 1 | Document numbers 47, 53, 54 |
Box 10 Folder 2 | Document numbers 57, 63, 65 |
Box 10 Folder 3 | Document number 71 |
Box 10 Folder 4 | Document numbers 73, 74, 75 |
Box 10 Folder 5 | Document number 77 |
Box 10 Folder 6 | Document numbers 78, 79 |
Box 10 Folder 7 | Document numbers 80, 81, 86 |
Box 10 Folder 8 | Document numbers 88, 89 |
Box 10 Folder 9 | Document numbers 90, 91, 92 |
Box 10 Folder 10 | Document numbers 93, 94 |
Box 10 Folder 11 | Document number 99 |
Box 10 Folder 12 | Document number 100 |
Box 11 Folder 1 | Document numbers 101, 103 |
Box 11 Folder 2 | Document numbers 104, 105 |
Box 11 Folder 3 | Document numbers 108, 109, 111, 112, 113 |
Box 11 Folder 4 | Document number 114 |
Box 11 Folder 5 | Document numbers 115, 117, 118, 119 |
Box 11 Folder 6 | Document number 120 |
Box 11 Folder 7 | Document number 121 |
Box 11 Folder 8 | Document numbers 122, 123, 125 |
Box 11 Folder 9 | Document numbers 127, 128, 129 |
Box 11 Folder 10 | Document numbers 130, 131 |
Box 11 Folder 11 | Document numbers 132, 133, 134 |
Box 11 Folder 12 | Document numbers 93, 94 |
Box 11 Folder 13 | Document number 138 |
Box 11 Folder 14 | Document numbers 139, 142 |
Box 12 Folder 1 | Document numbers 143, 144, 145, 146 |
Box 12 Folder 2 | Document numbers 147, 148, 149, 150, 151 |
Box 12 Folder 3 | Document numbers 152-153 |
Box 12 Folder 4 | Document number 154 |
Box 12 Folder 5 | Document number 155 |
Box 12 Folder 6 | Document numbers 156, 157 |
Box 12 Folder 7 | Document numbers 158, 161 |
Box 12 Folder 8 | First report, January 9, 1937 |
Box 12 Folder 9 | Second report, February 15, 1937 |
Box 12 Folder 10 | Third report, March 5, 1937 |
Box 12 Folder 11 | Report to the Executive Director on the Survey of Legal Staffs in Department and Independent Establishments, Fred A. Ironside, Jr., General Council, November 23, 1934 |
Box 12 Folder 12 | L. D. White “Plan for a more systematic recruitment of junior attorneys not under provisions of the Civil Service law” January-June, 1935, correspondence, reports |
Box 12 Folder 13 | Address, “New Opportunities for Economists and Statisticians in Federal Employment” December 29, 1936 |
Box 12 Folder 14 | Miscellaneous material on legal positions in government service, correspondence, memoranda, 1934-1943 |
Box 12 Folder 15 | Miscellaneous material on the Board of Legal Examiners, 1942- 1945 |
Box 13 Folder 1 | Hoover Commission, L. D. White memoranda on the federal “decentralization” program and rank status, 1952-1954 |
Box 13 Folder 2 | Hoover Commission, Personnel Task Force, L. D. White memorandum on postmasters and rural carriers, 1954 |
Box 13 Folder 3 | Hoover, L. D. White memo on the status of Federal Attorneys, 1954 |
Box 13 Folder 4 | President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, hearings November 1 and 2, 1939 (9:30-12:30; 1:30-4:30) Room 144-B, Supreme Court Building, Washington, D. C., 44 pages |
Box 13 Folder 5 | Report of proceedings before the President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, Federal civil service, Supreme Court Building, Room 144-B, 9:30 a.m., Washington, D. C., November 1, 1939, 163 pages |
Box 13 Folder 6 | Report of proceedings before the President’s Committee on Merit System Improvement, Federal civil service, Supreme Court Building, Room 144-B, 9:30 a.m., Washington, D. C., November 2, 1939, Ward and Paul, Official reporters, Washington, D. C., 242 pages |
Box 13 Folder 7 | Report of proceedings before the President’s Committee on Merit System Improvement, Federal civil service, Supreme Court Building, Room 144-B, 9:00 a.m., Washington, D. C., December 8, 1939, Ward and Paul, Official reporters, Washington, D. C., pages 243-336 |
Box 13 Folder 8 | Report of proceedings before the President’s Committee on Merit System Improvement, Federal civil service, Supreme Court Building, Room 144-B, 9:15 a.m., Washington, D. C., December 9, 1939, Ward and Paul, Official reporters, Washington, D. C., pages 337-424 |
Box 13 Folder 9 | President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, minutes of meeting, March 20 and 21, 1940, photocopy, with covering letter |
Box 13 Folder 10 | President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, minutes of executive session, September 30, 1940, suite 152, United States Supreme Court, Washington, D. C., 150 pages, carbon copy, Mr. Walter H. Hickman, Official reporter |
Box 13 Folder 11 | President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, minutes, executive session, January 21, 1941, 10:00 a.m., U. S. Supreme Court, Washington, D. C., 119 pages, carbon copy, Mr. Walter H. Hickman, official reporter, also a photostat copy of a page of the minutes which was replaced by a revised page, with a covering letter |
Series V: University Senate |
Box 14 Folder 1 | Trustee-Senate Committee on Academic Reorganization, I. Basic Documents, 1943-1944 |
Box 14 Folder 2 | Trustee-Senate Committee on Academic Reorganization, II. Basic Documents, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 3 | Trustee-Senate Committee on Academic Reorganization, III. Basic Documents, 1944-1945 |
Box 14 Folder 4 | Trustee-Senate Committee on Academic Reorganization. Borgese's remarks, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 5 | Trustee-Faculty Committee on Chancellor Candidates, official lists, 1950-1951 |
Box 14 Folder 6 | Trustee-Faculty Committee on Chancellor Candidates, correspondence, 1951 |
Box 14 Folder 7 | Trustee-Faculty Committee on Chancellor Candidates, correspondence with H. H. Swift., 1951 |
Box 14 Folder 8 | Trustee-Faculty Committee on Chancellor Candidates, official correspondence. 1950-1951 |
Box 14 Folder 9 | Trustee-Faculty Committee on Chancellor Candidates, papers, 1951 |
Box 14 Folder 10 | Bell, Laird, 1943-1945 |
Box 14 Folder 11 | College, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 12 | Educational policy, memo on, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 13 | Faculty comments, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 14 | Faculty contract, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 15 | Faculty rank, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 16 | Gideonse article, 1945 |
Box 14 Folder 17 | Hutchins-Faculty, exchange of letters, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 18 | Instruction and Research, Committee on, statutes, Laird Bell draft, 1945 |
Box 14 Folder 19 | Instruction and Research, Committee on, report, March, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 20 | Instruction and Research, Committee on, report, December 28, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 21 | Meeting of May 22, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 22 | Meetings, summaries of, 1943-1944 |
Box 14 Folder 23 | Meetings with Deans, 1944 |
Box 14 Folder 24 | Memorandum, November 30, 1943 |
Box 14 Folder 25 | Memorial, 1944 |
Box 15 Folder 1 | Miscellaneous correspondence, 1944 |
Box 15 Folder 2 | Miscellaneous documents and reports, 1943-1944 |
Box 15 Folder 3 | Miscellaneous notices, 1944 |
Box 15 Folder 4 | Newspaper comments, 1944 |
Box 15 Folder 5 | Proportional Representation memo, 1944-1945 |
Box 15 Folder 6 | Report: Interim report, May 1, 1944 |
Box 15 Folder 7 | Report of Senate Committee to the Senate, April 30, 1945 |
Box 15 Folder 8 | Senate, Organization of, 1944 |
Box 15 Folder 9 | Statutes, 1939-1944 |
Box 15 Folder 10 | Wright, Quincy, correspondence, 1944
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Box 15 Folder 11 | “Commission on the Future Policy of the University Libraries,” tentative report, 1924 |
Box 15 Folder 12 | Edmund J. James Lectures on Government, containing article by Leonard D. White, 1938 |
Box 15 Folder 13 | History of Public Administration Service, drafts of chapters for proposed Vol. 5, 1956-1957 |
Box 16 Folder 1 | History of the United States Civil Service, by Paul P. Van Riper, 1958 |
Box 16 Folder 2 | “The Intellectual Influence of Leonard B. White on the Field of American Public Administration” Ph.D. dissertation by Stolcis, Gregory B., Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2002 |
Box 16 Folder 3 | Local Community Research Committee: Annual Report, 1926-1930 |
Box 16 Folder 4 | Notes found in Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1941-1946 |
Box 17 Folder 1 | The Practice of Public Administration, by Ernst von Harnack, revised by Jean Schneider, preface by Leonard D. White, 1942 |
Box 17 Folder 2 | “Problems of Public Administration,” by Leonard D. White and Maure L. Goldschmidt, undated |
Box 17 Folder 3 | The Public Service and the Party Machine, from lectures delivered at the University of Chicago by Leonard D. White, 1938 |
Box 17 Folder 4 | Report of President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement, by Leonard D. White, 1941 |
Box 18 Folder 1-3 | Reprints, 1921-1924 |
Box 19 Folder 1-2 | Reprints, 1925-1940 |
Box 20 Folder 1-2 | Reprints, 1940-1941 |
Box 20 Folder 3 | Three Jacksonians, a series of lectures under the auspices of the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation, by Leonard D. White, 1952 |
Box 20 Folder 4 | Three Jeffersonians, a series of lectures under the auspices of the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation, by Leonard D. White, 1950 |