MsC 377

 

Manuscript Register

 

PAPERS OF JOHN C. PRYOR

 

Collection Dates: 1920 -- 1976

(Bulk Dates: 1930s to 1940s)

3.5 linear ft.

 

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Posted to Internet: July 2002

 

 

Acquisition Note: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Betty L. Hacker in 1981.

 

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Photographs: Box 7

 

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Biographical Note

John C. Pryor (1883 -- 1979) was born in Abindon, Virginia. When he was five years old his family moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa. There he attended public schools and worked at a number of odd jobs as a teenager. Pryor graduated from Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, in 1907, and the following year earned his law degree from the University of Chicago. Returning to Council Bluffs to begin his legal career, he remained there until 1922 when he relocated his law practice to Burlington, Iowa.

In 1916 Pryor was the Democratic candidate for Congress from Iowa's 9th District. From 1915 to 1921, he was a member of the Council Bluffs Board of Education and from 1926 to 1931 he was a member of the Board of Education in Burlington. In the 1930s, he was state administrator of the Iowa State Emergency Relief Administration, assistant general council of the Farm Credit Administration, president of the Iowa State Bar Association, a member of the Iowa Commission on Uniform State Laws, and the general council for the Federal Land Bank of Omaha. During World War II, Pryor was chief council of the Preclusive Operations Division, Office of Imports, Board of Economic Welfare, legal advisor to the Economic Welfare Division of the American Embassy in London, and president of the National Conference on Uniform Law.

Scope and Contents

The papers of John C. Pryor are arranged chronologically within an alphabetical sequence. These papers primarily consist of correspondence with some subject files relating to the Iowa State Bar Association and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Also included are Pryor's speeches and a manuscript draft of his autobiography. There are five boxes of correspondence with letters from Guy M. Gillette, Clyde L. Herring, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Mason Ladd, Thomas E. Martin, Elizabeth Smith Pryor, Wiley Rutledge, and George A. Wilson.

Box List

Box 1

American Law Institute, 1942

Autobiography, J.C. Pryor. Including a letter from Philip D. Jordan

Civil Service. Board of Legal Examiners, 1942. Including letters from Mason Ladd

Correspondence

General

1920 -- 1932. Including letters from John Hammill, Smith W. Brookhart, Claude R. Porter, and William G. McAdoo

1933 -- 1935. Including letters from Louis Murphy, Clyde L. Herring, and Edward C. Eicher

1936 -- 1937. Including letters from Harry Hopkins, Clyde L. Herring, Mason Ladd, Seth Thomas, Nelson J. Kraschel, Wiley Rutledge, and William F. Rile

January -- May 1938. Including letters from Clyde L. Herring, Wiley Rutledge, and William F. Riley

Box 2

Correspondence, cont.

General, cont.

June -- August 1938. Including letters from Nelson G. Kraschel, Clyde L. Herring, Fred Biermann, Guy M. Gillette, and Thomas E. Martin

September -- December 1938. Including letters from Thomas E. Martin, Clyde L. Herring, James A. Farley, Guy M. Gillette, John H. Mitchell, and Nelson G. Kraschel

January -- February 1939. Including letters from Clyde L. Herring, Mason Ladd, Wiley Rutledge, and Guy M. Gillette

March -- June 1939. Including letters from Wiley Ruttledge, E.A. Gilmore, Clarence M. Updegraff, Guy M. Gillette, Clyde L. Herring, Mason Ladd, George A. Wilson, and Thomas E. Martin

July -- December 1939. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge and Clyde L. Herring

January -- March 1940. Including letters from Mason Ladd, Thomas E. Martin, and Wiley Rutledge

April -- May 1940. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge, Fred Biermann, Guy M. Gillette, Oscar Hale, Clyde L. Herring, Mason Ladd, E.A. Gilmore, and S.J. Galvin

Box 3

Correspondence, cont.

General, cont.

June -- December 1940. Including letters from Clyde L. Herring, Wiley Rutledge, Guy M. Gillette, and Mason Ladd

January -- June 1941. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge, Guy M. Gillette, George A. Wilson, and Clyde L. Herring

July -- December 1941. Including letters from Clyde L. Herring, Mason Ladd, Wiley Rutledge, and Henry N. Graven. Also, an interesting letter regarding Henry A. Wallace, August 8, 1941

January -- May 1942. Including letters from Clyde L. Herring, Wiley Rutledge, and Otha D. Wearin

June -- December 1942. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge, Guy M. Gillette, Mason Ladd, Clyde L. Herring, and William F. Riley

1943. Including letters from Mason Ladd, Wiley Rutledge, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, T. Henry Foster, and Clarence W. Moody

1944. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, and W. Earl Hall

Box 4

Correspondence, cont.

General, cont.

1945. Including letters from George A. Wilson, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Wiley Rutledge, and W.D. Jamieson

1946. Including letters from Thomas E. Martin, Jake More, and W.D. Jamieson

1947. Including letters from Thomas E. Martin, Robert D. Blue, Mason Ladd, David M. Stanley, and Jo Stong

1949 -- 1969. Including a letter from Earl Warren

1970 -- 1971. Including a letter from Roy L. Stephenson

1972 -- 1976. Including letters from Harold E. Hughes, Robert D. Ray (xerox copy), and Edward Mezvinsky

Correspondence, cont.

Personal

May -- July 1943

Box 5

Correspondence, cont.

Personal, cont.

August -- September 1943

October -- December 1943. Including a copy of As I Saw It.

1944.

Undated. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge and W. Earl Hall

Correspondence. Elizabeth Pryor, 1941 -- 1952. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge and Adlai E. Stevenson

Council of State Governments, 1940 -- 1943

Iowa State Bar Association

1937 -- 1958. Including a letter from Mason Ladd

1959 -- 1961. Including a letter from Mason Ladd

1962 -- 1971. Including a letter from Mason Ladd

Box 6

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws

1938 -- September 1939. Including letters from Wiley Rutledge and Bourke B. Hickenlooper

October -- December 1939

January -- June 1940

July -- September 1940

October -- December 1940. Including a letter from Wiley Rutledge

January -- March 1941. Including a letter from George A. Wilson

April -- August 1941

Box 7

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, cont.

September -- December 1941

January -- June 1942

July -- December 1942

1943

Undated

Newspaper Clippings

Photographs

Speeches and Articles, 1930 -- 1943 and undated

 

 

 

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