Walsh, Jerome K. Papers

1931-1966

Kansas City Attorney and Friend of Harry S. Truman

The papers of Jerome K. Walsh include correspondence, press clippings, articles, handwritten notes, speeches, and other items concerning Walsh’s life, career as an attorney in Kansas City, and political involvement.

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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: Dennis E. Bilger (1972); Sandra Colyer and David Clark (2015).
Updated by: Haley Petersen (2019) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

 

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1902

  

Born Jerome Kames Walsh

1927

  

Member, Missouri Legislature

c. 1938-1941

  

Secretary, American Civil Liberties Union

c. 1941-1945

  

Regional attorney, Office of Price Administration

1944

  

Ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Representative from Missouri

1946

  

Ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Representative from Missouri

1971 (January 30)

  

Died
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The papers of Jerome K. Walsh include correspondence, press clippings, articles, handwritten notes, speeches, and other items concerning Walsh’s life, career as an attorney in Kansas City, and political involvement. The collection is arranged in one series, a Subject File.

The collection contains Walsh’s correspondence with a number of people, including President Harry S. Truman. Several items related to an essay Walsh wrote for a journal are included. There are also records from his career as a Kansas City attorney detailing the cases he worked on, including transcripts of court sessions.

One portion of the collection covers Walsh’s campaigns for Congress in 1944 and 1946. These materials include press clippings, statements, and speeches from his campaign, as well as sample ballots.

There is also correspondence and other information regarding civil rights in Missouri and the proposed Missouri Valley Authority. Included is the transcript of a debate on the Missouri Valley Authority, in which Walsh participated.

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SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Container Nos.

  

Series

1-8

   SUBJECT FILE, 1931-1966
Correspondence, press clippings, articles, handwritten notes, speeches, and other items. Arranged alphabetically by folder title, and thereunder chronologically.
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FOLDER TITLE LIST

SUBJECT FILE, 1931-1966

Box 1

  • Arbitration [1 of 2]
  • Arbitration [2 of 2]
  • Article
  • Benton, Thomas Hart
  • Books
  • Boyle, William M., Jr.
  • Civil Rights
  • Congress - Walsh for 1944
  • Congress - Walsh for 1946

Box 2

  • Congress - Walsh for - Newspaper Clippings
  • "D" Miscellaneous
  • Daniel, Jonathan
  • "E" Miscellaneous
  • Eagleton, Mark D.
  • Edwards, Suggett Louis - Prayer and Funeral Oration
  • Ernst, Morris
  • Farley, James A.
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Frances, Sister Marie - Loretto Heights College
  • Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York City, May 4, 1953
  • Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Pencil Notes Transcribed
  • "G" Miscellaneous

Box 3

  • "H" Miscellaneous
  • Hennings, Senator Thomas C., Jr.
  • Hydrogen Bomb - Congressional Record - Senate - Letter to Senator Mansfield (Montana) March 31, 1954
  • Incinerators
  • Inter-American Institute
  • "J" Miscellaneous
  • James, Jesse
  • Jackson Victory Dinner, 1949
  • "K" Miscellaneous
  • "Land We Live In" Radio Program, March 14, 1948
  • Lillienthal, David E.
  • "L" Miscellaneous
  • "Mc" Miscellaneous
  • McGee, Louis
  • Missouri General Assembly Bills
  • Missouri State Attorney

Box 4

  • Missouri Valley Authority
  • Missouri Valley Authority - Clippings
  • Missouri Valley Authority - Conference
  • Missouri Valley Authority - Correspondence
  • Missouri Valley Authority - Debate
  • Missouri Valley Authority - Speeches

Box 5

  • Murray, James E.
  • "N" Miscellaneous
  • Newspaper Clippings
  • "O" Miscellaneous
  • Office of Price Administration
  • O'Hara, Reverend Edwin V.
  • "P" Miscellaneous
  • Pendergast Machine - Book Review
  • Personal [1 of 4]
  • Personal [2 of 4]
  • Personal [3 of 4]
  • Personal [4 of 4]

Box 6

  • Photographs
  • Political
  • "Politics USA" - A Play
  • Presidential Election Corruption
  • Printed Materials
  • "R" Miscellaneous
  • Redding, William
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D.
  • Rural Electrification Authority
  • "S" Miscellaneous [1 of 2]
  • "S" Miscellaneous [2 of 2]

Box 7

  • Scrapbooks
  • Sherman-Parlor Company
  • Smith, Talbot
  • Speeches
  • St. Benedict's College, Atcheson, Kansas
  • Storck, Barbara
  • "T" Miscellaneous
  • Tennessee Valley Authority [1 of 2]
  • Tennessee Valley Authority [2 of 2]

Box 8

  • Truman, Harry S.
  • Truman, Harry S. - Article
  • "V" Miscellaneous
  • Villmoare, Edwin S.
  • "W" Miscellaneous
  • Walsh, Frank P.
  • "XYZ" Miscellaneous
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