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Finding aid created by: Matthew Isom
Date: 2014
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Nov 2022 | folder added and style changes made (HVA) |
Summary |
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Creator: | Appleby, Paul H. (Paul Henson), 1891-1963. |
Title: | Paul H. Appleby Papers |
Dates: | 1931-1971 |
Size: | 6 boxes (3 linear feet) |
Abstract: | Materials related to Paul H. Appleby's professional career as an expert in the field of public administration within and outside Syracuse University |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Paul H. Appleby (1891-1963) was an American expert in the field of public administration and a dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Appeby was born on September 13, 1891 in Green County, Missouri. He graduated from Grinnell University in Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1913 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the same institution in 1942. Appleby also received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Wayne State University in 1962. After earning his bachelor's degree, Appleby worked in journalism for a number of different publications. He edited weekly newspapers in Montana, Iowa, and Minnesota until 1920, edited the Iowa Magazine between 1920 and 1924 and worked as an editorial writer on the Des Moines Register and Tribune until 1928. That year, Appleby moved to Virginia, where he edited two weekly newspapers.
Appleby had always been interested in the public workings of the government and went on to invest fifteen years of his life to federal service. In 1933, he became executive assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. He went on to become the Under-Secretary of Agriculture in 1940. Appleby worked with Great Britain as chief of food missions during 1941 and 1942, where he studied and made recommendations about food production, rationing and distribution. From 1941 to 1943, he was chairman of the first International Wheat Conference and then the International Wheat Council. He became a member of the American delegation to the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture in 1943. In 1946, Appleby served as a special assistant and eventually Director of the Bureau of the Budget, a task for which President Harry Truman personally thanked him when Appleby left government service.
From 1947 to 1956, Appleby was Dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. During that time, he was a special consultant on public administrative problems for the Indian government, an endeavor funded by the Ford Foundation. Appleby also served as Director of the Budget of the State of New York under Governor W. Averell Harriman. His work and expertise with public administration helped make the Maxwell School and Syracuse University one of the most respected institutions in the field.
Appleby's experience enabled him to write numerous reports, speeches, articles and publications, many of which were considered highly influential in the field of public administration. He wrote four books on the subject: Big Democracy (1947), Policy and Administration (1949), Morality and Administration (1952), and Citizens as Sovereigns (1962). Constantly connected and up-to-date in the field, Appleby was a member of the American Society for Public Administration, the American Political Science Association, the National Municipal League and the Committee of the National Civil Service League.
Paul H. Appleby died in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 1963.
The Paul H. Appleby Papers contain a variety of material dating from 1931 to 1971, but the majority of the collection involves his experience in the field of public administration. The collection has been divided into four series.
The Correspondence series is divided into General and Individual correspondence. General correspondence is composed of various personal and professional letters Appleby received throughout his career. Included are letters from his time working in various roles in the federal government and as a dean at Syracuse University; many pertain to his writings. Individual correspondence consists of letters retained by Appleby for the autographs of several notable people, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson and Harry Truman. There are usually only one or two letters from each person.
The Ford Foundation consultant series contains memoranda, reports, notes and publications Appleby kept while he worked in India for the Ford Foundation. There are also a number of newspaper clippings about reports he had done on public administrative reform in India.
The Subject files series has a variety of materials from Appleby's personal and professional life, including event programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, invitations and various printed material. There are a number of reference files and reports that Appleby used and created for his work in administration, as well as the transcript to an interview he had done, entitled "Reminiscences."
The Writing series consists of over forty manuscripts and notes on papers done by Appleby. There are also copies of three of his books: Citizens as Sovereigns (1962), Morality and Administration (1952) and Policy and Administration (1949).
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries and all relevant rights holders
before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this
collection.
The Archives holds a clipping file and portrait file on Paul H. Appleby. There is also a separate collection of Appleby's papers pertaining to his time as Dean of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Names
Appleby, Paul H. (Paul Henson), 1891-1963.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Education -- Administration.
Government employment.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Paul H. Appleby Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Original source of acquisition in 1967 unknown. Possible gift of Ruth Appleby.
Processing Information
Materials were rehoused in acid-free folders and boxes.
The series and majority of material are arranged in alphabetical order. General correspondence is arranged chronologically and Individual correspondence is arranged alphabetically by last name.
Correspondence
Ford Foundation consultant
Subject files
Writings
Correspondence | |||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1931-1934 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1935-1936 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1937-1939 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1940 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1941-1944 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1945-1948 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1951-1953 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1954-1955 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1957-1959 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General 1960-1964 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | General undated | ||||||||||
Individual | |||||||||||
Box 2 | Acheson, Dean 1942, 1949, 1957, 1965 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Anderson, Sherwood undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Barkley, Alben W. 1946 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Batt, W.L. 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Beck, Thomas H. 1934 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Brannan, Charles F. 1950 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Bruce, Viscount Stanley Melbourne 1942, 1959 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Butler, Harold 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Churchill, Winston S. 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Connelly, Matthew J. 1951 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Coy, Wayne 1953 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Dawes, Charles G. 1947, 1948 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Douglas, William O. 1938 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1946 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Farley, James A. 1936-1940, 1962 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Frank, Jerome N. 1952 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Frankfurter, Felix 1942-1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Galbraith, John Kenneth 1958 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Gruenther, Alfred M. 1957 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Halifax 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Halsted, Anna Roosevelt 1944, 1953 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Harriman, Averell 1942-1958 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Hopkins, Harry L. 1937, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Hull, Mr. and Mrs. Cordell 1937, 1943 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Ickes, Harold L. 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | LaGuardia, Fiorello 1937 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Lehman, Herbert H. 1951 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Lubin, Isador 1958 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Maud, John 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Morgenthal, Henry, Jr. 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Nehru, Jawaharlal 1954, 1956 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Orr, Sir John Boyd 1945 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Pace, Frank, Jr. 1950-1952 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Patterson, Robert P. 1946 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Pearson, Michael 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Perkins, Frances 1947 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce 1940 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Rockefeller, Nelson A. 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Roosevelt, Eleanor 1936, 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1936-1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Rosenman, Samuel I. 1950 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Schwellenbach, Lewis B. 1946 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Sherwood, Robert E. 1953 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Smith, Harvey 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Stettings, E.R., Jr. 1942, 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Stevenson, Adlai E. 1952, 1956, 1962 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Truman, Harry 1945-1946, 1950 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Unidentified 1937, 1942 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Wallace, Henry A. 1941, 1944, 1960, 1961 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Ward, Robert Barrington 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Webb, James E. 1949-1951 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Woolton 1942 |
Ford Foundation consultant | |||||||||||
Box 2 | Memoranda 1953-1956, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Newspaper clippings, Appleby report 1956 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Parliament debates 1956 | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Publications 1954, undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Reports 1956 |
Subject files | |||||||||||
Box 3 | Event programs 1938-1963 | ||||||||||
Financial data | |||||||||||
Box 3 | Budget seminar 1946 | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Judicial opinion 1939 | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Miscellaneous 1933-1942 | ||||||||||
Box 3 | New York real estate tax exemptions 1954-1957 | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Interview, "reminiscences" 1957 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Invitations 1936-1941, undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Memoranda 1935-1946 | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Memoranda 1951-1963 undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Names and addresses lists 1952, undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Newspaper clippings 1940-1964, undated | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Photographs 1933 1941 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Printed material - miscellaneous 1939-1971 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Printed material - political 1932-1945 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Printed material - political 1946-1960 undated | ||||||||||
Reference files | |||||||||||
Box 4 | Abstracts of conversations 1937 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Lecture and scholarly papers 1936-1960 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Lecture and scholarly papers undated | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Miscellaneous 1939-1940, undated | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Note and quotations 1954-1959, undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Position papers 1934, 1961, undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Press releases 1940-1953 | ||||||||||
Reports | |||||||||||
Box 5 | Alliance for progress 1963 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Proposed federal legislation 1938 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Public administration 1962 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Washington Wheat meeting 1941-1942 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Speeches - public administration 1942, 1958, undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Speeches - politics 1936-1940 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | US presidential election and inauguration memorabilia 1937, 1941, undated |
Writings | |||||||||||
Manuscripts | |||||||||||
Box 5 | "An administrator looks at politics" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Alternatives" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Areas of discretion" 1953 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "British type governments" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Centralization and political values" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "The citizen in modern society" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Citizens and officials" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Cliches inimical to understanding" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Decision making" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Delegation" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Education and government" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Education for public administration" 1950 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Facts, information, experts" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Federal interdepartmental safety council remarks 1945 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "For future Madisons" 1950 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Foresight and hindsight" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Functions of the public" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Good judgment" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "A hierarchical picture" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "History and decision making" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "How do government employees vote" 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Identifying objectives" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "Institutional decision making" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "The institutional view" undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | "The intellectuals and public policy" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Irrelevant discussion" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Leaders and decision-makers" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Making over-all sense" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Memorandum for the president" 1945 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Notes undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Obtaining qualified political executives" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Operation sandal strap" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "The pluralistic pool" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Political science: the next twenty five years" 1950 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Popular education" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "The process of judgment" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Public administration and democracy" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Resolution of forces" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Responsibility" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "The role of administration in the regulatory process" 1946 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "The significance of the Hoover Commission report" 1949 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Some thoughts on decentralised democracy" 1962 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Strategy and tactics of agitation" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Tentativeness of decisions" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Top policy-makers are amateurs" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Training for political science" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Two missions to Britain" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Understanding decision making" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "A view of institutions" undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | "Who governs America?" 1948 | ||||||||||
Publications | |||||||||||
Box 6 | Citizens as sovereigns 1962 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Morality and administration 1952 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Policy and administration 1949 |