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Clyde T. Ellis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS E15 258 258A-E

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, memoranda, scrapbooks, diary fragment, legislative bills, broadsides, photographs, clippings and other published and unpublished materials created or received by the Arkansas lawyer, politician, state legislator and administrator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1943 and who was, from 1942 his retirement in 1968, Executive Manager of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

Part of the materials pertain to Ellis’ personal affairs, especially as regards his education, health, business, and legal concerns, and his interest, 1940-41, in organizing the Arkansas Historical Association.

Much of the material, dating from ca. 1943 to 1976, pertains to hydroelectric development and rural electrification in Vietnam, in South America, in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, especially including the U. S. ; to inland waters and to flood control in the U. S. , especially in Arkansas; to Ellis’ work as Executive Manager of the NRECA; to Arkansas Power and Light Company and Electric Bond and Share Holding Company; to the proposed Arkansas Valley Authority; and to the U. S. Rural Electrification Administration, National Water Commission, Federal Power Commission, and Tennessee Valley Authority.

Other materials, dating mostly from 1933 to 1942, pertain to political affairs in the United States, especially in Arkansas and particularly in regard to: the Arkansas General Assembly; Congressional redistricting; Ellis' Congressional election campaigns of 1938, 1940, and 1942; the Democratic National Convention and the presidential election campaign of 1940; and the political careers of, and Ellis’ relationships with, Homer Martin Adkins, Carl Edward Bailey, James William Fulbright, Claude Albert Fuller, John Little McClellan, John Elvis Miller, Wilbur Daigh Mills, and David Dickson Terry.

Included are newspaper clippings or constituent correspondence addressed to Congressman Ellis regarding the U. S. entry in war in 1941, and files of his constituent addressed Washington Weekly Newsletter, 1938-1942. One document, in Series 3, pertains to the U. S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearings, in 1974, on impeachment of the President.

Correspondents represented, in one or more instances, include: Homer Martin Adkins, Robert Sharon Allen, Carl Edward Bailey, Aben William Barkley, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, John Sherman Cooper, Dwight David Eisenhower, James William Fulbright, Fred Harvey Harrington, Oren Harris, Rupert Vance Hart’ Dallas Tabor Herndon, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, J. Robert Houghwout Jackson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Little McClellan, John William McCormack, John Elvis Miller, Wilbur Daigh Mills, Edmund Sixtus Muskie, Andrew Russell Pearson, David Hampton Pryor, William Robert Poage, Sam Taliaferro Rayburn, Raymond Henry Rebsaman, David Yancey Thomas, Richard Ryan Thompson, Harry S. Truman, and Lamar Williamson.

Dates

  • 1933-1976

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Extent

16.8 Linear Feet (24 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged in 8 series:

  1. 1. Biographical, Personal, Familial
  2. 2. Electrical Power and Hydro Electric Development, Rural Electrification, Inland Waters, and Flood Control
  3. 3. Political Files
  4. 4. Presidential Correspondence
  5. 5. Foreign Affairs
  6. 6. Miscellaneous Correspondence
  7. 7. Miscellaneous Clippings
  8. 8. Photographs

Acquisition Information

The Clyde T. Ellis Papers were donated to Special Collections by Clyde Taylor Ellis in August and September 1976 and in March and June 1977.

Processing Information

Processed by Samuel Sizer; completed in August 1977.

Title
Clyde T. Ellis Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Samuel Sizer
Date
August 1977
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444