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Summary Information
Leon R. Clausen Papers
1905-1965
- Clausen, Leon R., 1877-1965
Mss 1021; PH 6518
3.4 c.f. (3 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder) and 7 photographs
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Leon R. Clausen, president (1924-1948) and chairman of the board (1948-1958) of the J.I. Case Company, a manufacturer of tractors and farm equipment located in Racine, Wisconsin. The papers consist of memoirs, speeches and writings, personal and business correspondence, and subject files. They primarily document Clausen's conservative, anti-Communist political views and his pre-Case business career. A majority of the correspondence is personal, documenting Clausen's property, philanthropies, and political exchanges with a multitude of nationally active conservatives. Family correspondence primarily concerns foreign relatives, but there are exchanges with his brother Fred L. Clausen, an executive at the Van Brunt Manufacturing Co. of Horicon, Wisconsin. Business records in the collection primarily document Clausen's pre-Case employment as signal engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (1901-1912) and as executive of the Dain Manufacturing Co. (1912-1924), a subsidiary of John Deere. The Case company records include Clausen's draft history of the company's early labor struggles and confidential internal labor documents (1933-1935) used to support preparation of the manuscript and copies of company memoranda, clippings, and advertising concerning the 1946 strike by the United Automobile Workers Local 180. Classified subject files document Clausen's interest in economics, labor, and politics. The photographs in the collection document highlights in his career.
English
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