Title: Leo T. Crowley Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1970

Creator:

• Crowley, Leo T.

Call Number: M2000-144; Audio 850A

Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons), 6 tape recordings, and 6 negatives

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

See the catalog entry for information of possible additional materials and shelf locations.

Abstract:

Research papers, including some of Crowley's own papers, of Stuart L. Weiss for his biography of Leo T. Crowley, The President's Man: Leo Crowley and Franklin Roosevelt in Peace and War (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1966). Papers concern Crowley's career as a businessman, chief aide to Madison Mayor Schmedeman, and federal administrator, and consist of correspondence, speeches, news clippings, and reports. Included are originals and copies from Crowley's personal papers, as well as copies from other sources. Also included is an interview of Crowley conducted in 1969 by Lawrence C. Eklund and photographs by George P. Koshollek.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2000144

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Positions held by Crowley include president of General Paper Company, Madison, 1919; president of the Madison Bank of Wisconsin (later merged into State Bank of Wisconsin), 1928-1932; chairman of State Banking Review Board, 1932; first chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1934-1945); president and chairman of the board of Standard Gas and Electric Company, a nation-wide utility system (1939-1947); member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's war cabinet; Alien Property Custodian (1942-1944); head of the Office of Economic Warfare (later reorganized within the Foreign Economic Administration); and chairman of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail Road until his retirement (December 1945-1970).

Acquisition Information

Presented by Stuart L. Weiss, Las Vegas, Nevada. Accession Number: M2000-144

M2000-144	Series: Business and Personal Life
Box   1 Folder   1	Business interests, 1929-1973, 1980
Box   1 Folder   2	Family
Box   1 Folder   3	Irish-Catholic
Box   1 Folder   4	Irish-Catholic institutions
Box   1 Folder   5	Special documents
Box   1 Folder   6	Post-War materials Scope and Content Note: Lend-Lease, Price Stabilization Board, Committee for Economic Development.
Box   1 Folder   7	Post War correspondence with the White House
Box   1 Folder   8	Cartoons, Christmas lists, “Tray Swiper,” and charitable contributions
Box   1 Folder   9	British Embassy's evaluation of Crowley during tenure as Foreign Economics Administrator
Box   1 Folder   10	Miscellaneous correspondence and clippings
Box   1 Folder   11	James F. Byrnes correspondence, including Vice-Presidential nomination, 1944; Truman and Lend-Lease controversy
Box   1 Folder   12	Last month at FEA and final disposition of FEA/Truman controversy
Box   1 Folder   13	General congressional correspondence
Box   1 Folder   14	Crowley's problems at Madison Bank
Box   1 Folder   15	Speech file - general index, November 1944
Box   1 Folder   16	Vandenberg correspondence - FDIC and related documents - Confirmation and Lend-Lease
Box   1 Folder   17	Carter Glass correspondence
Box   1 Folder   18	F. Ryan Duffy correspondence
Box   1 Folder   19	Joe and Robert Kennedy correspondence
Box   1 Folder   20	Crowley and Lend-Lease
Box   1 Folder   21	Crowley and postwar control of German power to make war/FEA
Box   1 Folder   22-23	FEA - general
Box   1 Folder   24	Source material for Global Diplomat II/ FEA collateral paper
Box   1 Folder   25	Miscellaneous correspondence and clippings
Box   1 Folder   26	Photocopies of photographs from research institutions
	Series: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	⇧
Box   1 Folder   27	Wisconsin Bankshares, “the cover-up,” and “the Treasury Investigation”
Box   1 Folder   28	Reports, statements, memos, et cetera
Box   2 Folder   1-3	Addresses to groups of bankers on work of FDIC, 1934-1945, 1963, undated
Box   2 Folder   4	More speeches on banking
Box   2 Folder   5	Letters and material involving J.F.T. O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, 1935-1936
Box   2 Folder   6-7	Letters and memos of FDIC chairman Crowley, 1934-1945
Box   2 Folder   8	H. Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury and White House correspondence, 1934-1943
Box   2 Folder   9	Senator Phillips Goldsborough, Former FDIC Director, correspondence, 1936-1943
Box   2 Folder   10	M. Eccles, Chairman FRB, correspondence, 1934-1943
Box   2 Folder   11-13	FDIC - general
Box   2 Folder   14-16	Documents - collateral, contextual material
	Series: Alien Property Custodian	⇧
Box   2 Folder   17	Appointment
Box   2 Folder   18	General information
Box   2 Folder   19	Collateral papers
Box   2 Folder   20-21	Correspondence
Box   2 Folder   22	Documents
	Series: Standard Gas and Electric Company (SG&E), Office of Economic Warfare (OEW), Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railroad (CMStP)	⇧
Box   3 Folder   1	SG&E appointment and clippings
Box   3 Folder   2-3	SG&E/CMStP clippings
Box   3 Folder   4	OEW - Related materials and correspondence
Box   3 Folder   5	OEW, Alien property custodian
Box   3 Folder   6	Notes on clippings
Box   3 Folder   7	OEW and U.S. Commercial Company - correspondence
	Series: Political and Miscellaneous	⇧
Box   3 Folder   8	Political materials - Wisconsin and national, letter to FDR, 1934
Box   3 Folder   9	Grady case
Box   3 Folder   10	Jersey City Banks - Hague machine
Box   3 Folder   11	University of Wisconsin letter regarding Crowley's non-graduation
Box   3 Folder   12-13	Clippings - Wisconsin politics, late 1920s, 1930s
Box   3 Folder   14	Crowley's key role in Minnesota politics
Box   3 Folder   15-16	Political materials, Wisconsin and national
Box   3 Folder   17-18	Relevant documents from various sources
PH Box   24	Series: Photographs	⇧
	Images (negatives) of Crowley taken by George P. Koshollek, undated
	Series: Audio Recordings Physical Description: Cassette tapes	⇧
850A/1-6	Interview of Crowley by Milwaukee Journal staffer, Lawrence C. Eklund, 1969