Dates: 1949-2000
This collection contains correspondence, handwritten notes, sound recordings, a dissertation, and other items relating to the career of Charles F. Brannan as Secretary of Agriculture and Rushay's dissertation on this subject.
Size: 5 linear inches (about 600 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave his copyright interest in writings in this collection, and in any other, collection in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration, 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. Copyright interest in other documents in this collection presumably belongs to the creators of those documents or their heirs.
Processed by: Zoe Honeck (2017) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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Samuel W. Rushay was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1967. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1989, and received his M.A. from Ohio University in 1992. In 2000, Rushay earned a Ph.D. from Ohio University. Rushay worked as an archivist at the Harry S. Truman Library, in Independence, Missouri, from 1993 through 1997. From 1997 to 2007, Rushay worked as an archivist at the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff in College Park, Maryland. Rushay became the supervisory archivist at the Harry S. Truman Library in 2007.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The Samuel W. Rushay Papers include correspondence, handwritten notes, sound recordings, a dissertation, and other items relating to the career of Charles F. Brannan as Secretary of Agriculture. The collection is arranged in one series, a Subject File.
The collection contains Rushay's dissertation, "The Farm Fair Dealer: Charles F. Brannan and American Liberalism." This biography of Brannan focuses on his involvement in agricultural policy, the impact of his liberal philosophy on President Truman's farm program, and his role in the development of the Brannan Plan, a proposed reform of federal aid to farmers.
The collection also contains Rushay's correspondence with his dissertation advisers and with people who had known and worked with Brannan. Many of the handwritten notes include information derived from Rushay's interviews. Reports in the collection contain information about farm policy, government programs, and the American Farm Bureau. Also included are sound recordings of interviews conducted by Rushay with Brannan's widow, Eda Brannan, and with his executive assistant, Wesley McCune, as well as the transcript of Brannan's oral history interview with Columbia University.
More information about Charles Brannan and agricultural policy can be found at the Truman Library in the papers of Charles Brannan, Wesley McCune, and Clinton Anderson.
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SUBJECT FILE, 1949-2000 Correspondence, handwritten notes, reports, a dissertation, and other items relating to the career of Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan Arranged alphabetically by folder title and thereunder chronologically. |
Box 1
- Correspondence
- Handwritten Notes
- Reports
- Rushay, Samuel W., "The Farm Fair Dealer: Charles F. Brannan and American Liberalism" [1 of 3]
- Rushay, Samuel W., "The Farm Fair Dealer: Charles F. Brannan and American Liberalism" [2 of 3]
- Rushay, Samuel W., "The Farm Fair Dealer: Charles F. Brannan and American Liberalism" [3 of 3]
- Sound Recordings
- "The Reminiscences of Charles F. Brannan"