Arthur N. Holcombe (#113)

An Inventory of His Personal Papers
1952-1960
In the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
List of Series
Description


Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers 1952-1960 [fragment]
Educator. Professor of government, Harvard University (1910-1955). Material relating to a lecture given by John F. Kennedy at Harvard in 1952, and to the political effects of an article by John Mallan that appeared in the New Republic  during the 1960 Presidential campaign.

Access
Open.

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Provenance
Received from Richard Neustadt of Cambridge, MA, in June 1975 (Acc. 1975-057).

Extent
About 65 items (5 linear inches ; 0.5 cubic foot)

Date Opened
October 1982

Processed by
Mary C. Sullivan under the direction of Jo August Hills

Encoded by
James M. Roth

The Personal Papers of Arthur N. Holcombe (1884-1977)

Biographical Note
Arthur Norman Holcombe was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, on November 3, 1884. He graduated from Harvard with an AB in 1906; and in 1909, he obtained his Ph.D. from that university. On August 30, 1910, he married Carolyn H. Crossett. They had five children. In 1964, he married Hadassah Moore Leeds Parrot. Holcombe split his career between public service and teaching. He was credited with establishing political philosophy and theory as basic disciplines in Harvard’s government curriculum. Among his students were Henry A. Kissinger and Henry Cabot Lodge. In 1949, he assisted Chiang Kai Shek in the drafting of a constitution for the Republic of China. In 1955, he retired as Eaton Professor of the Sciences of Government to become chairman of the Committee to Study the Organization of Peace, an affiliate of the American Association for the United Nations. He died on December 9, 1977.

Collection Overview
This collection is a small set of material from 1952 to 1960. It includes correspondence from Congressman John F. Kennedy regarding a talk he gave at a seminar on legislative process in the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard in 1950. The correspondence followed an article by John P. Mallan published in the New Republic , October 13, 1952. The collection contains correspondence between both Mallan and Holcombe and Congressman Kennedy. It also includes letters to and from the editor of the New Republic . The article surfaced again in 1959, when Senator John F. Kennedy was campaigning for the Presidency. Holcombe corresponded with Kennedy again as a reprint of the article was being planned.

List of Series
Series 1.  Seminar on Legislative Process

Collection Description

Series 1. Seminar on Legislative Process.
About 65 items.
Arrangement: by type of material.

This series consists of correspondence from Congressman John F. Kennedy regarding a talk he gave at a seminar on legislative process in the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard in 1950 correspondence between both John P. Mallan and Holcombe and Congressman Kennedy, and correspondence with the editor of the New Republic . The correspondence follows an article by John P. Mallan published in the New Republic , October 13, 1952. The article surfaced again in 1959, when Senator John F. Kennedy was campaigning for the Presidency. Holcombe corresponded with Kennedy again as a reprint of the article was being planned.