Spingarn, Jerome H. Papers

Assistant Research Director, Democratic National Committee, 1952

The papers of Jerome H. Spingarn include correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoranda, handwritten notes, drafts, and published materials mostly relating to Spingarn's service as the Assistant Research Director of the Democratic National Committee during the 1952 Presidential campaign.

Size: 2.5 linear inches (about 400 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave his copyrights in this collection to the United States of America. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyrights in other documents in this collection presumably belong to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Tracy Gilbertson (2012) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

The Papers of Jerome H. Spingarn include information relating to his service as the Assistant Research Director of the Democratic National Committee. The papers are arranged alphabetically in a single series.

The collection mainly consists of correspondence, handwritten notes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and published materials. Much of the collection concerns the 1952 Presidential campaign. Included are a campaign handbook, background research for speeches by President Truman, and a study of subsidies granted to businesses by the federal government.

The papers also include correspondence and other items relating to the 1948 Presidential campaign and President Truman's 1950 trip to the Northwest. There are also materials in the collection relating to George M. Elsey, Kenneth Hechler, and Mike Mansfield, and their contributions to the 1948 campaign and the 1950 trip.

Also included in the collection is an issue of The Progressive magazine that was devoted to criticism of Senator Joseph McCarthy. These papers were originally opened for research as part of the Miscellaneous Historical Documents Collection (MHDC 638). The Jerome H. Spingarn Papers were designated as a separate collection in 2012.

Related collections at the Truman Library include the Papers of George M. Elsey, Kenneth Hechler, and Clark Clifford, and the Records of the Democratic National Committee.