The papers of Jack Bernard Tate consist of correspondence, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, reports, speeches, printed materials and other items created during and after his government service as legal adviser to the Federal Security Agency and the State Department.

Size: Less than one linear foot (about 800 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with this collection. Documents created by U.S. government employees 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: Laura N. Heller (1969).
Updated by: Jennifer Farr (2007) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

1902 (August 14)		Born, Bolivar, Tennessee
1924		B.A., University of Tennessee
1926		J.D., Yale Law School
1927		LL.M., George Washington University
1928-1934		Assistant Legal Adviser, Department of State
1934-1936		Division Counsel and Division Administrator, National Recovery Administration
1936-1939		Assistant General Counsel and General Counsel, Social Security Board
1939-1947		General Counsel, Federal Security Agency
1947-1954		Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State
1948 (March-April)		Alternate United States Delegate to the Ninth International Conference of American States (Pan American Conference) at Bogotá, Colombia
1949-1951		Legal Adviser to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly
1954-1968		Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Yale University
1968 (March 20)		Died, New Haven, Connecticut

The papers of Jack Bernard Tate consist of printed materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, reports, speeches and speech drafts, memorabilia and other items dealing primarily with his government service as legal adviser to the Federal Security Agency and the State Department. The collection is comprised of one series, a Subject File, arranged alphabetically by folder title.

The newspaper clippings and printed materials mostly relate to the Ninth International Conference of American States, held at Bogotá, Colombia in March-April 1948. The correspondence includes excerpts from letters from Tate to his wife Elizabeth describing his experiences as a delegate to the Bogotá Conference, which was interrupted by a violent revolt.

Another letter, from Tate to his mother, describes his dinner at the White House with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt in 1944.

The collection also includes memoranda, speeches and speech drafts, and other items pertaining to the Bricker Amendment, the doctrine of sovereign immunity, and the President's legal authority to wage war in Korea.

Container Nos.		Series
1		SUBJECT FILE, 1941-1969
		Correspondence, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, reports, speeches, photographs, memorabilia, and other items created during and after his government service as legal adviser to the Federal Security Agency and the State Department. Arranged alphabetically.

SUBJECT FILE, 1941-1969

• Bogotá Conference, March- April, 1948 – Letters to Mrs. Tate
• Bogotá Conference, March-April, 1948 – Newspaper Clippings
• Bogotá Conference, March-April, 1948 – Pamphlets
• Bricker Amendment, 1952-1956
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• Dinner at the White House, February 12, 1944
• Lectures at Yale University, 1951-1954
• Powers of the President – Korea
• Speeches and Statements
• St. Lawrence Seaway Authority
• Subversive Activities Control Act, 81st Congress, 2nd Session
• Tate Letter [law of sovereign immunity]
• United Nations Participation Act, 79th Congress, 1st Session
• Yale Law Report, 1968 (Jack B. Tate Obituary)

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