Reminiscences of Ferdinand Pecora, 1962.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, judge

Scope and Contents

Family background, boyhood in New York, N.Y., primary and high school education; New York Law School, 1903-05; legal experience; Progressive Party, New York, N.Y., 1912, convention, 1916; Counsel to Register of New York County; Assistant District Attorney, New York County, 1918-1930; detailed description of District Attorney's office and relationship to other branches of government; New York County Democratic politics, 1919-1930; law practice, 1930-33; Counsel for Senate Banking and Currency Committee, 1933; detailed description of "Pecora investigation." Impressions of prominent figures in New York, N.Y. politics, including Charles Murphy and Mayors John Hylan and James Walker

Subjects

• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Governmental investigations--United States.
• Interviews.
• Judicial process--United States.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1895-1951.
• New York (State)--Politics and government.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Pecora, Ferdinand, 1882-1971--Interviews.
• Progressive Party (U.S. : 1912)
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.