Allen Wagner Papers
Dates: 1951-1953.
Assistant to the Chairman, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1951-1953.
The papers of Allen Wagner consist chiefly of speeches, press releases, and correspondence from Mr. Wagner’s tenure as Assistant to the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission. These documents primarily relate to the Civil Service Commission Public Relations Program.
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Size: Less than one linear foot (approximately 400 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: Wagner gave to the United States of America his copyright interest in all of his unpublished writings in this collection. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Philip D. Lagerquist (1977); Kelley McNabb (2010).
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
| 1903 (September 19) | | Born, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1921-1933 | | Reporter and editor for newspapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota |
| 1933-1941 | | Executive Secretary, Minneapolis-St. Paul Sanitation District |
| 1941-1945 | | Assistant to the Secretary, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company |
| 1945-1949 | | American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City |
| 1949-1951 | | Director of Public Relations, American Road Builders Association |
| 1951-1953 | | Assistant to the Chairman, U.S. Civil Service Commission |
| 1954-1956 | | Director of Public Relations, American Transit Association, New York City |
| 1956-1958 | | Manager of Public Information, American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods, New York City |
| 1958-1959 | | Manager, Public Relations Department, General Foods Corporation |
| 1959-1960 | | Director, Public Relations Department, General Foods Corporation |
| 1960-1968 | | Vice President of Public Relations, General Foods Corporation |
| 1995 (September 4) | | Died, Salt Lake City, Utah |
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The papers of Allen Wagner consist chiefly of speeches, press releases, and correspondence from Mr. Wagner’s tenure as Assistant to the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission. These documents primarily relate to the Civil Service Commission Public Relations Program and its efforts to respond to increasing criticism of government employees and federal offices.
Included in the collection are speeches, written by Wagner and delivered by Civil Service Commission Chairman Robert Ramspeck, that are rich with facts and statistics about the state of the U.S. Civil Service in the early 1950s. These statements, as well as advertisements and press releases in the collection, speak to the issues of fiscal responsibility at the federal level.
Reflecting Mr. Wagner’s long career in public relations, documentation of an award he received from the American Public Relations Association is included in the collection. Documents outlining the job description of the Assistant to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission and internal communications within the department exhibit the management of a federal agency during the Truman administration.
Other collections at the Truman Library that relate to the U.S. Civil Service Commission include the papers of Harry S. Truman (Official File 2), Francis P. Brassor, and Frederick J. Lawton.
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SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
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SUBJECT FILE, 1951-1953 |
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Speeches, press releases, and correspondence from Allen Wagner’s tenure as Assistant to the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission. Arranged alphabetically. |
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FOLDER TITLE LIST
Box 1
- American Public Relations Award, 1953
- Civil Service Commission Public Relations Program
- Federal Personnel Council
- Newspaper Clippings
- Personal
- Press Releases
- Society for Personnel Administration
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