Robinson, George S. Papers

Dates: 1932-1965

Legislative Attorney, Department of the Air Force, 1948-1950; Attorney, Special Committee of the Senate to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce (Kefauver Committee), 1950; Executive Assistant to the Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board, 1950-1951; Confidential Assistant to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, 1951-1952

The papers of George S. Robinson include correspondence, printed materials, reports, handwritten notes, and other documents concerning Robinson’s career in government, especially his work with the Senate Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (the Kefauver Committee) and the Department of the Air Force.

 

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 3 linear feet, 6 linear inches.
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. government the copyrights in this material and in any other material received by the U.S. government and maintained in a depository administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Erwin J. Mueller (1977); Sandra Colyer and David Clark (2015).
Updated by: Molly Black (2019) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

 

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1904 (July 17)

  

Born, George Stanley Robinson, Winn, Maine

1926

  

AB., Bowdoin College

1929

  

LLB., Harvard Law School

1932

  

Employed as a lawyer in the Justice Department

1933

  

Married Doris Irene Barrington

1934-1937

  

U.S. Attorney in the Virgin Islands

c. 1942-1945

  

Intelligence Officer, United States Army Air Corps

1948-1950

  

Legislative Attorney, Department of the Air Force

1950

  

Special Counsel, Senate Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce

1950-1951

  

Special Assistant and Legal Adviser to the Director of Legislation and Liaison, Department of the Air Force

1951-1952

  

Confidential Assistant to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation

1959-1964

  

Deputy Special Assistant for Installations, Department of the Air Force

1976 (February 21)

  

Died, Fairfax, Virginia
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The papers of George S. Robinson include correspondence, printed materials, reports, handwritten notes, and other documents concerning Robinson’s career in government, especially his work with the Senate Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (the Kefauver Committee) and the Department of the Air Force. The collection is arranged in a single series, the Subject File.

Correspondence, covering the period from 1932 to 1965, makes up much of the collection, and consists mostly of letters and memorandums regarding Robinson’s career in government.

The collection also contains memorandums, printed materials, and handwritten notes (the latter filed under ‘Legal File’) that pertain to Robinson’s work for the Kefauver Committee in its investigation of organized crime in the U.S.

Also included in the collection is information about Robinson’s service in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force Reserve; and his work with Colonel Guy H. Goddard and (later) Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in improving housing for Air Force personnel and their families.

More information about the Kefauver Committee can be found at the Truman Library in the papers of Agnes Wolf.

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SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Container Nos.

  

Series

1-8

   SUBJECT FILE, 1932-1965
Correspondence, printed materials, reports, handwritten notes, and other documents. Arranged alphabetically by folder title, and thereunder chronologically.
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FOLDER TITLE LIST

SUBJECT FILE, 1932-1965

Box 1

  • Air Force Reserve [1 of 2]
  • Air Force Reserve [2 of 2]
  • Army-Memoranda and Records Concerning [1 of 2]
  • Army-Memoranda and Records Concerning [2 of 2]
  • Booklets [1 of 2]
  • Booklets [2 of 2]

Box 2

  • Correspondence, 1932-1934
  • Correspondence, 1935
  • Correspondence, 1936
  • Correspondence, 1937
  • Correspondence, 1938
  • Correspondence, 1939-1941
  • Correspondence, 1942
  • Correspondence, 1943
  • Correspondence, 1944
  • Correspondence, 1945
  • Correspondence, 1946
  • Correspondence, 1947
  • Correspondence, 1948
  • Correspondence, 1949
  • Correspondence, 1950
  • Correspondence, 1951

Box 3

  • Correspondence, 1952
  • Correspondence, 1953
  • Correspondence, 1954
  • Correspondence, 1955
  • Correspondence, 1956
  • Correspondence, 1957
  • Correspondence, 1958
  • Correspondence, 1959
  • Correspondence, 1960

Box 4

  • Correspondence, 1961
  • Correspondence, 1962
  • Correspondence, 1963
  • Correspondence, 1964
  • Correspondence, 1965
  • Goddard, Guy H.
  • Housing, Memoranda Concerning [1 of 3]

Box 5

  • Housing, Memoranda Concerning [2 of 3]
  • Housing, Memoranda Concerning [3 of 3]
  • Key Personnel-Office of the Secretary of the Air Force
  • Kevauver Crime Committee [1 of 4]
  • Kevauver Crime Committee [2 of 4]

Box 6

  • Kevauver Crime Committee [3 of 4]
  • Kevauver Crime Committee [4 of 4]
  • Miscellaneous Items
  • Speeches and Articles [1 of 2]
  • Speeches and Articles [2 of 2]

Box 7

  • Legal File [1 of 3]
  • Legal File [2 of 3]
  • Legal File [3 of 3]
  • Newspaper Clippings [1 of 7]
  • Newspaper Clippings [2 of 7]

Box 8

  • Newspaper Clippings [3 of 7]
  • Newspaper Clippings [4 of 7]
  • Newspaper Clippings [5 of 7]
  • Newspaper Clippings [6 of 7]
  • Newspaper Clippings [7 of 7]
  • Photographs
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