Summary Information

Title: James I. Loeb Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1937-1975

Creator:

• Loeb, James I. (James Isaac), 1908-

Call Number: Mss 480; Micro 847; PH 3733; PH 3733 (3)

Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (6 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 26 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of James I. Loeb, a journalist who was an intellectual leader of the anti-Communist left, a founder of the Americans for Democratic Action, a supporter of presidential candidates Averell Harriman and Hubert Humphrey, ambassador to Peru and Guinea, and owner of the Adirondack (N.Y.) Daily Enterprise. Included are correspondence, memoranda, subject files, speeches and writings, notes, photographs, and subject files on the ADA, various political activities, and ambassadorial assignments. Particularly important are several extended, reflective memoranda by Loeb which comment on various aspects of his career. Prominent correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, John and Robert Kennedy, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and many other leaders of the Democratic Party. An unpublished autobiography written in 1959 and comments on Adlai Stevenson are available only on microfilm.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00480

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