Reminiscences of Raymond Earl Baldwin : oral history, 1969-72.

Biographical Note

Public official.

Scope and Contents

Boyhood and education; naval service, World War I; early career in law and politics; Governor of Connecticut, 1939-1941, 1943-1946; Willkie campaign, 1940; United States Senator, 1946-1949; Armed Services, Post Office, Civil Service Committees, unification of armed services, investigation of Malmedy massacre, Joseph McCarthy; 1948 senatorial campaign, resignation, 1949; experiences as Connecticut Supreme Court Judge, 1949-1964, State referee and co-chairman of 1965 Constitutional Convention; impressions of Wilbur Cross, J. Henry Roraback, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas E. Dewey, Herbert Hoover, Senators Robert A. Taft, Arthur Vandenburg, Leverett Saltonstall.

Subjects

• Baldwin, Raymond E. (Raymond Earl), 1893-1986.
• Connecticut--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Connecticut. Supreme Court.
• Internal security.
• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Tenzer, Morton J., 1931- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
• United States. Congress--Committees.
• United States. Congress. Senate.
• Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.

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