Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Gerhard Alden Gesell papers, 1913-2003

Title

• Gerhard Alden Gesell papers, 1913-2003

Summary

• Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of writings, speeches, agenda and minutes of meetings, opinions, orders, dockets, notes, sentencing information, case files, other legal papers, printed matter, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Gesell's career as judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Documents Gesell's cases in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, antitrust matters, patent cases, and government regulations. Specific cases pertain to the Watergate break-in and firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox; the First Amendment in relation to the Pentagon Papers and other issues; legality of abortion; rioting in Washington, D.C. (1969); and Oliver North in the Iran-Contra Affair. Includes a sentencing file (1968-1992) reflecting economic and demographic changes in Washington, D.C., and containing social data concerning families, crime, the judicial system, and race relations. Includes material pertaining to Gesell's assignment on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, U.S. Congress; and the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services. Documents his tenure with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, especially investigating the New York Stock Exchange arising out of the Richard Whitney scandals, as well as his work as special counsel to the Temporary National Economic Committee investigating the life insurance industry; his activities with the Democratic Party in the presidential campaigns of 1956, 1960, and 1964; and his career as a lawyer with Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C. Includes financial ledgers and papers pertaining to his cattle farm in Loudon County, Va.; and drafts of his unpublished memoirs entitled, "My Jealous Mistress."
• Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Harding F. Bancroft, Howard C. Bratton, Warren E. Burger, Joseph M. Fitzpatrick, John M. Harlan, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Irving R. Kaufman, J. Edward Lumbard, John Lord O'Brian, Frank T. Remington, John J. Sirica, Potter Stewart, Lawrence E. Walsh, Earl Warren, and Frank M. Wilson.

Names

• Gesell, Gerhard Alden, 1910-1993

Headings

• -  Acheson, Dean,--1893-1971--Correspondence
• -  Bancroft, Harding F.--(Harding Foster),--1910-1992--Correspondence
• -  Bratton, Howard C.--(Howard Calvin),--1922-1964--Correspondence
• -  Burger, Warren E.,--1907-1995--Correspondence
• -  Cox, Archibald,--1912-2004
• -  Fitzpatrick, Joseph M.--(Joseph Mark)--1925-2011--Correspondence
• -  Harlan, John M.--(John Marshall),--1899-1971--Correspondence
• -  Humphrey, Hubert H.--(Hubert Horatio),--1911-1978--Correspondence
• -  Johnson, Lyndon B.--(Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973--Correspondence
• -  Kaufman, Irving R.--(Irving Robert),--1910-1992--Correspondence
• -  Lumbard, J. Edward--(Joseph Edward),--1901-1999--Correspondence
• -  North, Oliver
• -  O'Brian, John Lord,--1874-1973--Correspondence
• -  Remington, Frank J.,--1922-1996--Correspondence
• -  Sirica, John J.--Correspondence
• -  Stewart, Potter,--1915-1985--Correspondence
• -  Walsh, Lawrence E.--Correspondence
• -  Warren, Earl,--1891-1974--Correspondence
• -  Whitney, Richard,--1888-1974
• -  Wilson, Frank M.--Correspondence
• -  United States.--Congress.--Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
• -  United States.--Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit)
• -  United States.--District Court (District of Columbia)
• -  United States.--President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces
• -  United States.--Securities and Exchange Commission
• -  United States.--Congress.--Temporary National Economic Committee
• -  United States.--Constitution
• -  Covington & Burling
• -  Democratic Party (U.S.)
• -  New York Stock Exchange
• -  Pentagon Papers
• -  Abortion--Law and legislation
• -  Administrative law
• -  Antitrust law
• -  Civil rights
• -  Constitutional amendments--United States
• -  Constitutional law
• -  Crime
• -  Demography--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Families
• -  Farms--Virginia--Loudon County
• -  Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990
• -  Justice, Administration of
• -  Life insurance--United States
• -  Patent laws and legislation
• -  Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
• -  Practice of law--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Presidents--United States--Election--1956
• -  Presidents--United States--Election--1960
• -  Presidents--United States--Election--1964
• -  Race relations
• -  Riots--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Securities fraud--United States
• -  Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
• -  World War, 1939-1945--Japan
• -  United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
• -  United States--Politics and government--1945-1989
• -  Washington (D.C.)--Economic conditions

Notes

• -  Arranged in eleven series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1968-1992; Series 2: Chronological File, 1968-1993; Series 3: Case File, 1956-1991; Series 4: Bench Books, 1968-1993; Series 5: Dockets, 1959-1992; Series 6: Sentencing File, 1968-1992; Series 7: Office File, 1965-1993; Series 8: Miscellany, 1945-1993; Series 9: 2018 Addition, 1913-2003; Series 10: Classified, 1968-1979; and Series 11: Oversize, 1941-1990.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Gerhard Alden Gesell Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Gift, Gerhard A. Gesell and members of the Gesell family, 1991-2014.
• -  Thirteen original drawings of political cartoons transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
• -  Judge and lawyer.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003019

Medium

• 69,000 items.
• 193 containers plus 6 oversize and 1 classified.
• 78 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

• mm93081163

Access Advisory

• Access restrictions apply, in part; other restrictions apply. Contact the Manuscript Reading Room for further information.
• Classified, in part.
• Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

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