Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum


William J. Patterson Papers

1899-1956.

Director, Bureau of Safety, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1934-1939; Member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1939-1952; Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1944.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 5 linear feet.
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. government the copyrights in this material and in any other material received by the U.S. government and maintained in a depository administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Dennis E. Bilger (1982).

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

    APPOINTMENT BOOKS
Box 1
  • 1946
  • 1947
  • 1948
  • 1949
    CORRESPONDENCE
Box 2
  • 1899-1919
  • 1920-1938
  • 1939-1940
  • 1941-1944
  • 1945-1946
  • 1947-1949
  • 1950-1952
  • 1953-1956
    PERSONAL FILES
Box 3
  • Personal and financial notes (folders 1-7)
Box 4
  • Personal and financial notes (folders 8-14)
  • Personal notes - miscellaneous
Box 5
  • Newspaper clippings - personal (2 folders)
  • Patterson, William J. - personal papers
  • Patterson, William J. - financial records
    SPEECH FILE
Box 6
  • 1934 - September 10 - Chicago, Illinois - Car Foremen's Association of Chicago
  • 1934 - October 3 - Cleveland, Ohio - Safety Section, American Railway Association, National Safety Council
  • 1935 - January 8 - Boston, Massachusetts - New England Railroad Club
  • 1935 - November 21 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Railway Club of Pittsburgh
  • 1936 - April 6 - Indianapolis, Indiana - Indianapolis Car Inspection Association
  • 1936 - June 24 - Chicago, Illinois - Safety Section, Association of American Railroads
  • 1936 - August 18 - Chicago, Illinois, 23rd Convention, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of America
  • 1937 - April 20 - New Haven, Connecticut - New Haven Railroad Club
  • 1937 - August 3 - Superior, Wisconsin - Presentation of Medal of Honor Awarded by the President to Arnold F. Haack
  • 1937 - September 29 - Chicago, Illinois - Convention of Car Department Officers Association
  • 1937 - October 15 - New York, New York - New York Railroad Club
  • 1938 - February 14 - Montreal - Canadian Railway Club
  • 1938 - March 29 - Chicago, Illinois - Regional Safety Meeting, Association of American Railroads
  • 1938 - August 16 - Toronto, Ontario - 24th Convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America
  • 1939 - March 13 - Chicago, Illinois - Convention of Signal Section, Association of American Railroads
  • 1939 - March 17 - Louisville, Kentucky - Regional Safety Meeting, Association of American Railroads
  • 1939 - April 3 - St. Paul, Minnesota - Meeting of the Northwest Carmen's Association
  • 1939 - June 6 - Chicago, Illinois - 45th Annual Convention, American Association of Railroad Superintendents
  • 1940 - June 27 - Chicago Illinois - extemporaneous remarks, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
  • 1941 - May 7 - Chicago, Illinois - Regional Meeting, Association of American Railroads
  • 1944 - March 15 - Resolutions - Eastman Section - Vol. I - 253
  • 1944 - September 26 - Chicago, Illinois - "Convention in Print," Coordinated Mechanical Association
  • 1944 - October 1 - Motor Carriers Regulations During World War II
  • 1946 - April 16 - St. Louis, Missouri - Meeting of Car Department Association of St. Louis
  • 1946 - July 16 - Detroit, Michigan - 29th International Convention, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
  • 1946 - August 8 - Chicago, Illinois - 20th Annual Meeting, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
  • 1946 - August 21 - Jacksonville, Florida - 28th Regional Convention, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America
  • 1946 - October 15 - Swampscott, Massachussets, 28th Annual Meeting, Association of American Railroads
  • 1947 - June 25 - Atlantic City, New Jersey - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
  • 1947 - July 22 - San Francisco, California - 38th Convention, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Box 7
  • 1948 - January 15 - New York, New York - New York Railroad Club
  • 1948 - June 28 - Chicago, Illinois - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
  • 1949 - September 19 - Chicago, Illinois - 51st Annual Convention, Signal Section, Association of American Railroads
  • 1949 - September 27 - Chicago, Illinois - 66th Annual Convention, American Short Line Railroad Association
  • 1949 - November 22 - St. Louis, Missouri - Meeting of the Car Department Association of St. Louis
  • 1950 - September 20 - New York, New York - 52nd Annual Meeting, Signal Section, Association of American Railroads
  • 1951 - June 27 - Chicago, Illinois - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
  • 1951 - December - Genoa, Italy - 4th Session of the Inland Transport Committee, Internaional Labor Organization
  • 1952 - June 11 - St. Louis, Missouri - Regional Convention of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
  • 1952 - September 15 - Chicago, Illinois - Locomotive Maintenance Officers Association
  • 1952 - October 2 - San Francisco, California - American Short Line Railroad Association
  • 1953 - June 23 - Atlantic City, New Jersey - Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads
    PUBLICATION FILE
  • Interstate Commerce Commission - Opinions by Commissioner W. J. Patterson - Vol. I., August 1943
Box 8
  • Report of the Mechanical Advisery Committee to the Federal Coordinator of Transportation, December 27, 1935
  • Public Aids to Transportation (4 volumes)
  • Cross Reference sheets
Box 9
  • Interstate Commerce Commission Activities, 1887-1937
  • United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Survey of Organization and Operations, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1952
  • Comparative Compilation of Transportation Statutes as of July 15, 1948
  • Scrap Book
  • Joseph B. Eastman - 1882-1944, Director, Office of Defense Transportation (Appears to have been associate of William J. Patterson)

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