Reeve, Joseph E. Papers

Economist and Assistant Chief, Commerce and Finance Division, Bureau of the Budget, 1942-1965

The papers of Joseph E. Reeve consist of memorandums, correspondence, speeches and statements, tables, routing slips, and printed materials. They relate to Reeve's service as an economist with the Bureau of the Budget.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 2 linear feet, 2 linear inches (about 3,600 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The American Heritage Center donated to the U.S. government its copyright interest in all writings in this collection. No donation of copyright has been received from Joseph E. Reeve or his legal heirs. Documents created by U.S. government employees 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: Elizabeth Carrington (2011).

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1907 (December 2)		Born, Kendallville, Indiana
1929		A.B., Amherst College
1929-1930		Student, London School of Economics and Bonn University
1931-1938		Instructor in Economics, Marietta College, George Williams College, Carleton College, University of Chicago, Wayne University
1939		Ph.D., University of Chicago
1939-1941		Economist, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
1942-1965		Economist and Assistant Chief, Commerce and Finance Division, Bureau of the Budget
1943		Author, Monetary Reform Movements
1962-1963		Executive Secretary, President's Committee on Federal Credit Programs
1965-1970		Director, Monetary and Credit Analysis Staff, Office of Budget Review, Bureau of the Budget
1966		Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on Financial Assets
1969		Executive Secretary, President's Committee to Reappraise Federal Credit Programs
1992 (March 10)		Died, Lee County, Florida

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The Joseph E. Reeve Papers are comprised of memorandums, correspondence, speeches and statements, tables, routing slips, and printed materials. The papers relate to Reeve's service as an economist with the Bureau of the Budget. The collection consists of one series, a Chronological File, arranged chronologically.

A majority of the materials within the collection are memorandums and correspondence which convey the results of inter-agency discussions and recommendations for actions addressing topics such as budget policy, housing, federal loan programs, interest rates, public works financing, federal credit programs, public debt management, area redevelopment, flood insurance, the Farmers Home Loan Bank, the International Home Loan Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), and legislative proposals in these areas.

The first folder of the collection contains biographical information and printed materials provided by Reeve when he donated his papers to the American Heritage Center. Longhand lists created by Reeve appear at the beginning of each year in the folders that follow. These lists categorize the records for each year based on the following codes:

Bd. P.		Budget Policy
Cons. P.		Consumer Protection
D. M.		Department Management
Dis. A.		Disaster Assistance
F. C. P.		Federal Credit Programs
F. I.		Financial Institutions
Ins.		Insurance (including Flood Insurance)
Int.		Interest
Intl.		International
Org.		Organization

Further information concerning the Bureau of the Budget during the Truman administration can be found in the Frederick J. Lawton Papers, J. Weldon Jones Papers, and David H. Stowe Papers.

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