Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Harry A. Blackmun papers, 1913-2001

Title

• Harry A. Blackmun papers, 1913-2001

Summary

• Correspondence, appointment books, memoranda, case files, legal papers, subject files, speeches, and writings chiefly documenting Blackmun's career as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1970-1994) and as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit). Also includes material relating to his boyhood in Saint Paul, Minn., his undergraduate and law school studies at Harvard University, his private law practice in Minneapolis, Minn., his work as counsel for the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Association, and his association with the Advisory Committee on Judicial Activities for the Judicial Conference of the United States, Aspen Institute, and the United Methodist Church.
• U.S. Court of Appeals case topics include taxation, civil rights, and labor, administrative, constitutional, and criminal law. Documents Blackmun's decision to declare the use of corporal punishment in prisons unconstitutional.
• Subjects in the Supreme Court files include abortion rights, adoption, research use of fetal tissues, reverse discrimination, and legal issues stemming from the Watergate affair.
• Correspondents include Robert A. Bezoier, Myron H. Bright, Warren E. Burger, Daniel C. Connolly, James Russell Eckman, Felix Frankfurter, Erwin N. Griswold, Henry Earnest Halladay, Russell C. Jewell, A. M. Keith, Robert E. Merry, Roy M. Mersky, Norval Morris, John Bell Sanborn, James F. Simon, Scott Turow, and Charles Alan Wright.

Names

• Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999

Headings

• -  Bezoier, Robert A.--Correspondence
• -  Bright, Myron H.--Correspondence
• -  Burger, Warren E.,--1907-1995--Correspondence
• -  Connolly, Daniel C.--Correspondence
• -  Eckman, James Russell,--1908---Correspondence
• -  Frankfurter, Felix,--1882-1965--Correspondence
• -  Griswold, Erwin N.--(Erwin Nathaniel),--1904-1994--Correspondence
• -  Halladay, Henry Earnest,--1915---Correspondence
• -  Jewell, Russell C.--Correspondence
• -  Keith, A. M.,--1928---Correspondence
• -  Merry, Robert E.--(Robert Ellsworth),--1920---Correspondence
• -  Mersky, Roy M.--Correspondence
• -  Morris, Norval--Correspondence
• -  Sanborn, John Bell,--1876---Correspondence
• -  Simon, James F.--Correspondence
• -  Turow, Scott--Correspondence
• -  Wright, Charles Alan--Correspondence
• -  Harvard Law School--Students
• -  Aspen Institute
• -  Harvard University--Students
• -  Judicial Conference of the United States.--Advisory Committee on Judicial Activities
• -  Mayo Association
• -  Mayo Clinic
• -  United Methodist Church (U.S.)
• -  United States.--Court of Appeals (8th Circuit)
• -  United States.--Supreme Court
• -  Abortion--Law and legislation--United States
• -  Administrative law--United States
• -  Adoption--Law and legislation--United States
• -  Civil rights--United States
• -  Constitutional law--United States
• -  Corporal punishment--United States
• -  Criminal law--United States
• -  Fetal tissues--Research--Law and legislation--United States
• -  Labor laws and legislation--United States
• -  Law--United States
• -  Practice of law--Minnesota--Minneapolis
• -  Prisons--Law and legislation--United States
• -  Reverse discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
• -  Taxation--Law and legislation--United States
• -  Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
• -  Saint Paul (Minn.)--History

Genre

• Personal correspondence

Notes

• -  Arranged in five series. Series 1: Pre-Judicial File, 1913-1996; Series 2: United States Court of Appeals, 1934-1998; Series 3: Supreme Court File, 1918-1999; Series 4: Addition, 1959-2001; and Series 5: Oversize, 1925-1977.
• -  The Justice Harry A. Blackmun Oral History Project; Transcript, Final, 1997 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms003030.mss84430dig.142902
• -  Harry A. Blackmun Papers at the Library of Congress, Subject File, Oral History Interviews; Videos, 1994-1995, undated https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms003030.mss84430.int
• -  Harry A. Blackmun Papers at the Library of Congress, Supreme Court File Series: Dockets Subseries (containers 661-728) and Certiorari Memoranda Subseries (containers 755-1354) available on the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law website at http://blackmun.wustl.edu/introduction.html External
• -  Gift, Harry A. Blackmun; Sally A. Blackmun, executor, 1999-2001.
• -  Gift, Sally A. Blackmun, 2003.
• -  Sound recordings and videotape recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
• -  U.S. Supreme Court justice, judge, and lawyer.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003030

Medium

• 530,800 items.
• 1,576 containers plus 9 oversize.
• 630.2 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm99084430

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm99084430

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record