Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Wiley Rutledge, Jr., papers,

Title

• Wiley Rutledge, Jr., papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, speeches, writings, court files, academic files, family papers, and other papers documenting Rutledge's career as professor and dean of the State University of Iowa College of Law, 1935-1939; associate justice for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1939-1943; and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1943-1949. Court files include intracourt memoranda, working drafts of opinions, case memoranda and certiorari, docket books, summaries of lawyers' opinions, and conference proceedings.
• Subjects include freedom of speech, church and state, searches and seizures, right to counsel, self-incrimination, the scope of military authority and the inviolability of certain constitutional principles, the internment of Japanese Americans at the start of World War II, wartime review of New Deal agencies, the war crimes trial of Japanese General Tomobumi Yamashita, child labor laws, legal education, the role of business corporations in American life, and the role of the judiciary in a regulated economy.
• Organizations represented include the American Bar Association, Association of American Law Schools, Iowa State Bar Association, and National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Family correspondents include Rutledge's wife, Annabel Person Rutledge; father, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Sr.; half-brothers, Dwight J. and Ivan C. Rutledge; and brother-in-law, Seymour Howe Person. Other correspondents include Clay R. Apple, Victor Brudney, Huber O. Croft, Arthur J. Freund, A.B. Frey, Ralph F. Fuchs, Bernard C. Gavit, Guy M. Gillette, Henry Joseph Haskell, Mason Ladd, Jacob M. Lashly, Edna Lindgreen, W. Howard Mann, George W. Norris, Joseph R. O'Meara, Jr., John C. Pryor, Luther Ely Smith, Robert L. Stearns, Tyrrell Williams, Carl Wheaton. Willard Wirtz, and Richard F. Wolfson. Judges represented in the correspondence include Henry White Edgerton, Duncan L. Groner, Justin Miller, and Harold M. Stephens of the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court justices Hugo LaFayette Black, Harold H. Burton, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Robert H. Jackson, Frank Murphy, John Paul Stevens, Harlan Fiske Stone, and Fred M. Vinson.

Names

• Rutledge, Wiley, Jr., 1894-1949

Headings

• -  Apple, Clay R.,--1891-1988--Correspondence
• -  Black, Hugo LaFayette,--1886-1971--Correspondence
• -  Brudney, Victor,--1917-2016--Correspondence
• -  Burton, Harold H.--(Harold Hitz),--1888-1964--Correspondence
• -  Croft, Huber O.--(Huber Ogilvie),--1896---Correspondence
• -  Douglas, William O.--(William Orville),--1898-1980--Correspondence
• -  Edgerton, Henry White,--1888-1970--Correspondence
• -  Frankfurter, Felix,--1882-1965--Correspondence
• -  Freund, Arthur J.,--1891-1975--Correspondence
• -  Frey, A. B.--(Abraham B.)--Correspondence
• -  Fuchs, Ralph F.,--1899-1985--Correspondence
• -  Gavit, Bernard C.,--1893-1954--Correspondence
• -  Gillette, Guy M.--(Guy Mark),--1879-1973--Correspondence
• -  Groner, Duncan L.--(Duncan Lawrence),--1873-1957--Correspondence
• -  Haskell, Henry Joseph,--1874-1952--Correspondence
• -  Jackson, Robert H.,--1892-1954--Correspondence
• -  Ladd, Mason,--1898-1980--Correspondence
• -  Lashly, Jacob M.--(Jacob Mark),--1882-1967--Correspondence
• -  Lindgreen, Edna--Correspondence
• -  Mann, W. Howard--Correspondence
• -  Miller, Justin,--1888-1973--Correspondence
• -  Murphy, Frank,--1890-1949--Correspondence
• -  Norris, George W.--(George William),--1861-1944--Correspondence
• -  O'Meara, Joseph R.,--Jr.,--1898---Correspondence
• -  Person, Seymour Howe,--1879-1957--Correspondence
• -  Pryor, John C.--(John Carlisle),--1883-1979--Correspondence
• -  Rutledge, Annabel Person,--1888-1984--Correspondence
• -  Rutledge, Dwight J.,--approximately 1914---Correspondence
• -  Rutledge, Ivan C.,--approximately 1916---Correspondence
• -  Rutledge, Wiley Blount,--Sr.,--1861-1944--Correspondence
• -  Smith, Luther Ely,--1873-1951--Correspondence
• -  Stearns, Robert L.--(Robert Lawrence),--1892---Correspondence
• -  Stephens, Harold M.--(Harold Montelle)--Correspondence
• -  Stevens, John Paul,--1920-2019--Correspondence
• -  Stone, Harlan Fiske,--1872-1946--Correspondence
• -  Vinson, Fred M.,--1890-1953--Correspondence
• -  Wheaton, Carl,--1889---Correspondence
• -  Williams, Tyrrell,--1875---Correspondence
• -  Wirtz, Willard,--1912-2010--Correspondence
• -  Wolfson, Richard F.--Correspondence
• -  Yamashita, Tomobumi,--1885-1946--Trials, litigation, etc
• -  American Bar Association
• -  Association of American Law Schools
• -  Iowa State Bar Association
• -  National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
• -  State University of Iowa.--College of Law--Faculty
• -  United States.--Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit)
• -  United States.--Supreme Court
• -  Child labor--Law and legislation
• -  Church and state
• -  Constitutional law
• -  Corporations--United States
• -  Freedom of speech
• -  Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
• -  Judicial power
• -  Law--Study and teaching
• -  Law and economics
• -  Military law
• -  New Deal, 1933-1939
• -  Right to counsel
• -  Searches and seizures
• -  Self-incrimination
• -  War crimes trials
• -  United States--Politics and government--1933-1945

Notes

• -  Arranged in nine series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1920-1949; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1926-1951; Series 3: United States Court of Appeals File, 1939-1949; Series 4: Supreme Court File, 1942-1949; Series 5: Academic File, 1925-1940; Series 6: Speeches and Writings File, 1912-1949; Series 7: Miscellany, 1915-1959; Series 8: 1999 Addition, 1923-1984; and Series 9: 2016 Addition, 1909-1949.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Wiley Rutledge, Jr., Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Gift, Annabel Rutledge and other members of the Rutledge family, 1980-2014.
• -  Other gift, 1950-2009.
• -  Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Educator, judge, lawyer, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Full name: Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003006

Medium

• 76,250 items.
• 239 containers plus 2 oversize.
• 96.4 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm82038737

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82038737

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record