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The papers of George D. Braden mostly consist of correspondence between Braden and Sherman Minton.

Size: Less than one linear foot (about 100 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with the collection. 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: Jessica Seigler (2007) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

The papers of George D. Braden consist of correspondence and a curriculum vitae and were originally opened for research in 1984 as part of the Truman Library’s Miscellaneous Historical Documents Collection (MHDC 515).

The correspondence mostly consists of letters exchanged between Braden and Sherman Minton, written while Minton was serving as U.S. Senator from Indiana (1935-1941), Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt (1941), Judge of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (1941-1949), and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1949-1956). Braden served as Minton’s law clerk in 1941 and their correspondence pertains to their personal relationship as well as court cases, Minton’s fellow Justices of the Supreme Court, and his judicial philosophy. The collection also includes a few letters to Braden from other Minton law clerks and Braden’s curriculum vitae, which he sent to the Library in 1984.

The Library also has a collection of the papers of Sherman Minton, consisting of opinions written by Minton during his years on the Supreme Court with related correspondence and notes.

CORRESPONDENCE FILE, 1936-1984

• 1936-1950
• 1951-1984

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