Abe Mcgregor Goff Papers, 1905-1985

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Abe Mcgregor Goff, 1899-1894
Title
Abe Mcgregor Goff Papers
Dates
1905-1985 (inclusive)
Quantity
10.5 cubic feet
Collection Number
MG386 (collection)
Summary
Personal records of U.S. Representative Abe Goff, including clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and correspondence. Also records relating to his career in the military, his law office in Moscow, and his political career, including service as Soliciter for the Post Office Dept. and as Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner.
Repository
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Abe Goff was born in Colfax, Washington, December 21, 1899, the fourth son of Herbert W. and Mary Francis (Dorsey) Goff. The middle name of McGregor, his wife's mother's maiden name, was assumed in April 1945 during his military service. In addition to his three brothers he had one younger sister. He left high school from September 1917 to February 1918 to serve as a private in the Washington State National Guard during World War I. He returned to school and graduated in 1918. While at Colfax High School he was on both the track and football teams.

Working his way through the University of Idaho he held such jobs as day laborer in a lumber mill, construction worker, plumbers helper, dish washer, and was also sexton at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. He also found time to participate in dramatics, where he appeared in many plays including the part of the Indian Chief in "The Light on the Mountain", in football where his exploits earned him one of the first spots in the University of Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame, and in campus politics where he was elected president of the Freshman Class for the third quarter, and in April 1923 he ran for president of the ASUI, but was defeated by Talbot Jennings. He was also active in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Goff was a cadet colonel in the university ROTC regiment and was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the infantry reserve in February 1923. In 1933 he transferred to the Judge Advocate General's Department as a Captain, and when called to active duty had risen to Major.

After graduating from the University of Idaho Law School in 1924 he was admitted to the Idaho Bar and joined the law office of C.J. Orland. His first case, which he lost, was defending a West Virginian accused of making moonshine. In addition to his law practice Goff was football coach at Moscow High School for several years, and also a lay reader at the Episcopal Church in Colfax.

He was appointed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Latah County in 1924 and elected to the position of Prosecuting Attorney in 1926, serving successive terms through 1934.

On August 24, 1927 Abe Goff married Florence Letitia Richardson, a 1923 graduate of the University of Idaho, who was a physical education teacher at the university. They had two children, Timothy Richardson and Annie McGregor.

In 1940 he was elected state senator after an unsuccessful primary campaign for the nomination as U.S. Senator. As state senator he introduced and secured passage of a bill recognizing the power of the Supreme Court to make rules governing procedure in all courts in Idaho. He also introduced bills amending the community property statutes.

In August 1941 he was recalled to active duty as a Major, later being promoted to Colonel, in the Judge Advocate General's Department. One of the first officers to go overseas, in February 1942 he was sent to Africa and the Middle East as legal advisor to the U.S. Military North African Mission, headquartered with the British army in Cairo. He was with the British during Rommel's advance across Africa in the spring of 1942, and also saw duty in Italian East Africa and Iran. He was military envoy to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and military escort of Madame Chaing Kai-shek during her visit to Eritrea.

Returning to the United States after sixteen months in Africa, Goff served as assistant chief of the International Law Division in the office of the Judge Advocate General and as Special Council for the War Department in numerous cases in Federal Courts throughout the U.S. involving the constitutionality of wartime powers exercised by army area commanders, and later served as Deputy Director of the U.S. War Crimes Office. He went to London as senior War Department representative to the Allied War Crimes Conference in 1945 and served in Europe and the Pacific area setting up procedures for the prosecution of war criminals. While assigned to General McArthur's staff in Tokyo he organized the International Prosecution Section for the trial of Tojo and other Japanese war criminals, but did not participate in the prosecutions.

He returned to the U.S. and the office of the Under Secretary of War in the spring of 1946 to serve, until relieved from duty in September 1946, as a member of a special clemency board charged with reviewing sentences of convicted military prisoners. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Army Commendation Medal, and eight other service or campaign medals.

In 1946, while still on active duty, he was nominated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by Compton White, Sr. He won this election, and, as a member of the 80th Congress was elected president of the 80th Club, a group composed of 74 first year House Republicans; other officers were J. Caleb Boggs, vice-president, and Richard Nixon, secretary. Goff was also a member of the Committee on Agriculture and of the Speaker's Steering Committee for the House. In 1948 he was defeated in his bid for re-election by White when the First District voted heavily for Truman.

Following this defeat he, returned to active military duty for six months on a special assignment dealing with the new code for courts-martial, as chairman of a Board of Review in the office of the Army Judge Advocate General.

In the summer of 1949 he returned to Moscow to resume his law practice, this time alone, Orland having died in the interim. It was not until 1953, just shortly before going to Washington, D.C., that he took in a new partner, Cope Gale of St. Maries. Following the death of U.S. Senator Bert Miller in 1950, Goff attempted to gain the nomination for his seat, but lost out to former Senator Henry Dworshak.

Following the Eisenhower victory in 1952, Goff wrote many letters to colleagues asking for assistance in getting a federal appointment. His chance came in December 1953, when, at the request of Postmaster Arthur Summerfield, he went to Washington, D.C. to accept the position of Solicitor of the Post Office, a title which was later changed to General Council. His appointment became effective February 1, 1954.

He resigned his Post Office position when President Eisenhower named him to fill Owen Clarke's unexpired Interstate Commerce Commission term. His appointment was confirmed by the Senate on January 30, 1958 and he took his oath of office on February 12. On December 29, 1959, he was reappointed for a full seven-year term. In April 1963 he replaced Donald McPherson as Vice Chairman of the Commission, and in 1964 his colleagues elected him Chairman. Although he had the unanimous endorsement of industry and the practitioners, President Johnson chose not to reappointment him when his term expired in December 1966. Goff remained on the commission until July 1967 when his replacement, Grant Syphers, was confirmed. In Goff's words: "Apparently I am too staunch a Republican and advocate of the independence of the Commission to be reappointed by this highly partisan administration."

Since he was within two years of mandatory retirement when he left the Interstate Commerce Commission, Goff decided to return to Moscow, Idaho, where he spent the remaining 17 years of his life. After several months of ill health, Abe Goff died on Friday, November 23, 1984. He was survived by his wife and daughter, his son having died previously.

He was a member of and held national offices in the Idaho State Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Society of International Law, American Judicature Society, Federal Bar Association, and Judge Advocates Association. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Military Appeals, Supreme Court of the Philippines, and the Supreme Court of Idaho. He was also a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Reserve Officers Association, The Military Order of the Carabao, Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Masons, and Elks. He was a longtime member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Moscow and served as its treasurer for many years while an attorney in town.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The records of Abe McGregor Goff span the years 1905 to 1985, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1928 to 1971.

Included in the records are personal papers including photographs and scrapbooks of family members, and material concerning his career as politician, lawyer, military officer, post office solicitor, and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

As will be noticed in the following inventory the career records are sketchy. More extensive records for the Post Office and Interstate Commerce Commission as well as personal papers will be found in an earlier Goff collection, MG 148. Both inventories should be consulted by researchers since the collections complement each other

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Since the papers in this record group were received at several different times over a six year period there was no order to the material, therefore the material was sorted by activity and a series arrangement imposed during processing. Each series was arranged alphabetically. Most material was in labeled folders when received; the original folder headings were retained and in most cases the original order within the folders was also retained.

The majority of the papers were considered personal and were placed in series one. Included are biographies and clippings about Goff; correspondence, including over 100 letters he wrote to Florence between 1939 and 1967; engagement calendars of both Abe and Florence; certificates and plaques; invitations and memorabilia from presidential inaugurations from 1953 to 1967; income tax returns and supporting documentation from 1966 to 1983; and speeches given on patriotic occasions or to high school and college audiences. There is also a large collection of photographs which include old family photographs, pictures of Abe, Florence and their children, Abe's military photographs and official photographs from the Post Office Department and Interstate Commerce Commission. Finally there are scrapbooks and memorabilia belonging to Florence, Annie, and Tim. Most of the material in Florence's scrapbook was loose, and only a few pages were used. Therefore the scrapbook was disassembled and only Goff related material retained from the loose clippings.

Material related to Goff's political career is in series two. Included are a certificate of election to the Idaho state senate; and campaign brochures and expense records, a legislative scrapbook, testimony given before congressional committees, copies of speeches delivered in Congress, his voting record and office filed on bills concerning the Post Office and veterans affairs, all relating to his two years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Other material concerns his unsuccessful bid for a second term in the House in 1948 and the Senate primary race in 1950.

Series three contains material relating to Goff's Moscow law practice. Items in this series include correspondence, a portion of the "M:" case files, financial and other reports of the prosecuting Attorney's Association for which Goff was treasurer, quarterly and yearly social security, withholding reports and workman's compensation information, and a file of uncompleted work.

Goff served in both World War I and II and then continued in the Reserves. His records of this aspect of his life are contained in series four. Among these materials are Army Records, especially those dealing with his service in Eritrea, an oversize frame containing his medals, folders on military justice, and a military reserve certificate.

The few folders concerning Goff's Post Office career are in series five and include clippings and correspondence.

The final series contains material relating to Goff's career in the Interstate Commerce Commission. Included among these records are clippings, notes on cases or topics before the commission, correspondence and inter-office memos, speeches, testimony before congress while chairman of the commission, and correspondence and clippings concerning his non re-appointment to the commission in 1967.

Most of the material in the collection was in legal size folders; these were changed to letter size. Discarded from the collection were bank statements and paid checks, blank report forms, blank stock certificates, duplicate campaign material, duplicate near print material, greeting cards, unused post cards, programs for events Goff may have attended, news paper clippings not relating to Goff or his family, and a reel to reel tape recording of an unidentified music recital. Yearbooks from Moscow High School were added to the Special Collections yearbook collection and government documents were sent to the Government Documents Department of the library. This reduced the records by 15cubic feet.

Acquisition Information

The records of Abe Goff were donated to the University of Idaho Library by his daughter Annie Goff between February 1990 and June 1993. An additional donation was received from the Latah County Historical Society in February 1996.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Personal, 1905-1985Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Affidavit of birth and birth registration card
2 items
1941-1952
1/2
AFROTC. World War I talks
3 items
1974-1976
1/3
Alumni activities
8 items
1967-1983
1/4
Class of 1924
17 items
1973-1983
1/5
Class reunion
20 items
1983
1/6
Class reunion
15 items
1984
1/7
American Legion District 2 Convention talk
9 items
May 1969
1/8
Associations and organizations
9 items
1942-1973
1/9
Beta 50th anniversary invitation
24 items
1969
1/10
Beveridge, Robert H.
20 items
1972-1976
1/11
Biographies of Abe Goff
8 items
1961-1980
1/12
Boekel, William A.
28 items
1968-1979
1/13
Book: The White House
1 item
1963
1/14
Borah, Mrs. William A.
12 items
1969-1970
1/15
Career clippings
46 items
1941-1985
1/16
Certificates
25 items
1917-1979
os/17
Certificates: Oversize
9 items
1917-1959
1/18
Chamber of Commerce, Moscow
8 items
1972-1976
1/19
Clippings: Duplicates of clippings in scrapbook
27 items
1949-1950
1/20-21
Home folks
75 items
1928-1980
1/22-23
People, includes correspondence
72 items
1957-1975
1/24
Political
44 items
1950-1957
1/25
Miscellaneous
40 items
1968-1984
1/26
Colfax
15 items
1910-1983
1/27
Colfax High School
16 items
1964-1970
1/28
Convention and speaking engagements
7 items
1965
1/29
Correspondence: Christmas
10 items
1966-1967
1/30
Miscellaneous
45 items
1924-1952
1/31-34
Personal
300 items
1943-1975
1/35
Postcards
5 items
1945
1/36-37
Florence
109 items
1939-1967
1/38
Doffner Mining claims
7 items
1975-1980
1/39
Donation of papers of University of Idaho
12 items
1965-1967
1/40
Engagement calendar
1 item
1953
1/41-42
Engagement calendar
2 items
1964
1/43-44
Engagement calendars
2 items
1965-1966
2/45
Engagement calendar
1 item
1967
2/46-50
Engagement calendars: Florence
25 items
1939-1969
2/51
Engagement calendar: Florence
1 item
1983
2/52
Farm House national convocation talk
25 items
Sept. 1968
2/53-54
Federal Bar Association, Abe Goff treasurer
123 items
1960-1967
2/55
Football
12 items
1922-1976
2/56
Furnace, Moscow house
7 items
1968
2/57
Goff, May Goff Schmerer
76 items
1973-1976
2/58
Haddon, Otto
8 items
1969
2/59
Hall of Fame, Stivers
22 items
1972
2/60
Hodgson, Col. Joseph V.
10 items
1967-1974
2/61
Hollingsworth, Max
7 items
1984
2/62-64
House, 5348 29th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
66 items
1959-1968
2/65
House: Moscow, Refurbishing
14 items
1969
2/66
House: Moving
15 items
1967
2/67
Household goods, Transportation: Army Service, Washington
5 items
1946
2/68
Howell, Capt. Glenn S.
11 items
1971-1973
2/69
Idahonian and other write-ups
8 items
1970-1983
2/70
Inauguration
3 items
1953, 1957
2/71
Inauguration
2 items
1965
2/72
Inauguration
1 item
1973
2/73
Income tax
11 items
1966
2/74
Income tax
10 items
1967
2/75
Income tax
11 items
1968
2/76
Income tax
12 items
1969
2/77
Income tax
17 items
1970
2/78
Income tax
18 items
1971
2/79
Income tax
15 items
1972
2/80
Income tax
15 items
1973
2/81
Income tax
8 items
1974
2/82
Income tax
15 items
1975
2/83
Income tax
18 items
1978
2/84
Income tax
14 items
1980
2/85
Income tax
14 items
1981
2/86
Income tax
19 items
1982
2/87
Income tax
12 items
1983
3/88
Indian center, Gonzaga
31 items
1965-1968
3/89
Invitations
4 items
1962-1964
3/90
Items of interest
69 items
1927-1970
3/91
July 4th, Lewis-Clark State College
14 items
1979
3/92
Keep watch for Liberty (talk)
1 item
1947
3/93
Keystone Ranch
26 items
1980-1981
3/94
Keystone Water Users Association
8 items
1974
3/95
Lease: 1185 32nd St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
2 items
1947
3/96
Marmes bulwark
5 items
1958
3/97
McCroskey, Virgil
30 items
1968-1971
3/98
Medical: Aetna claims
31 items
1969-1978
3/99-100
Aetna insurance
60 items
1980-1981
3/101
Reports
11 items
1942-1947
3/102
Wrist operation
12 items
1981
3/103
Memorial Day
11 items
1976
3/104
Memorial Day talk
11 items
1977
3/105
Memorial Day
16 items
1984
3/106
Moscow High School Reunion, classes of 1925, 1926, 1927
9 items
June 11, 1977
3/107
Moscow High School talks
17 items
1970-1980
3/108
Moscow Hospital Association
7 items
1968-1979
3/109
Moscow Mountain property (Idler's Rest)
30 items
1967
3/110
Moscow's name
20 items
1961-1965
3/111
Olympic Peninsula property
127 items
1962-1972
3/112
Oral history - Pioneers (notes)
9 items
1974
3/113
Phi alpha Delta talk
10 items
December 4, 1969
3/114
Photographs: Abe Goff
11 items
1922-1965
3/115
Florence Goff
15 items
1913-198?
3/116
Abe and Florence Goff
5 items
1955-1975
3/117
Family snapshots
143 items
1928-1950
3/118
Annie Goff
12 items
ca. 1940-1956
3/119
Tim Goff and family
25 items
1944-1975
3/120
Congress
3 items
1947
3/121
Military
16 items
1918-1946
3/122-123
Post Office Department
55 items
1954-1960
3/124
Interstate Commerce Commission
41 items
1958-1968
3/125
Beta Banquet, Washington D.C.
4 items
undated
3/126
Miscellaneous
10 items
1922-1967
3/127
Unidentified and miscellaneous activities
10 items
ca. 1935-1974
3/128
Autographed and other
10 items
1923-1957
3/129
Goff Insurance, Colfax
5 items
undated
3/130
Dorsey family (maternal relatives)
15 items
undated
3/131
Goff, Arthur and Frank
28 items
1905-1917
3/132
Goff, Charlie (poster)
1 item
undated
3/133
Goff, David
30 items
1913-1914
3/134
Goff relatives
9 items
undated
3/135
Takeda, Elizabeth
2 items
undated
os/136
Oversize
26 items
1922-1966
3/137
Pledge of Allegiance
2 items
1954
3/138
Politics
44 items
1967-1982
3/139
Election
22 items
1972
3/140
Post Office, Moscow, Idaho
21 items
1970
3/141
Potlatch High School talk
17 items
March 8, 1942
3/142
Priest Lake Property
60 items
1960-1970
3/143
Railroads
4 items
1977-1981
3/144
Recommendations
18 items
1949-1950
3/145
Red Cross
9 items
1950
3/146
Resolution in honor of Abe Goff, Idaho House of Representatives
1 item
1943
3/147
Richardson, George S. and Annie McGregor
11 items
1937-1954
3/148
Sartor House, overcoat
6 items
1974
3/149
Sketch of Abe Goff
1 item
undated
3/150
Social Security Administration
21 items
1967
4/151
St. Marks election
9 items
1984
4/152
Teaching position
26 items
1964-1968
4/153
Western Washington State College
30 items
1965-1966
4/154
Theater Arts: Donation of formal clothes
5 items
1984
4/155
Veterans Day
3 items
1979
4/156
Veterans Day
4 items
1980
4/157
War ration books
8 items
1942
4/158
White House visit
17 items
1971
4/159
YMCA
20 items
1950-1951
4/160
8mm movie of family wedding reception
1 item
undated
4/161
Florence: Certificates
2 items
1922-1964
4/162
Clippings, cards, etc.
31 items
1909-1967
4/163
Diary
1 item
December 1946
4/164
Gamma Phi Beta 50th anniversary
5 items
1960
4/165
Photograph collection
70 items
1910-1966
4/166
Scrapbook material, Boise
7 items
ca. 1921-1923
4/167-169
Scrapbook material
112 items
1927-1966
4/170
Scrapbook: Letters from Tim
1 item
1951-1952
4/171
South America Trip
35 items
1957
4/172
78 rpm record: Greetings to Richardson family
1 item
1941
4/173
Annie: Clippings, photographs, etc.
19 items
1943-1966
4/174
Photograph collection
34 items
ca. 1948-1953
4/175
Photograph album
1 item
undated
4/176
Baby and childhood scrapbook
35 items
1937-1955
4/177
Scrapbook material
30 items
1939-1946
4/178
Tim: Photograph collection
44 items
1951-1953
4/179
Photograph collection
35 items
1940s
4/180
Photograph album
1 item
undated
4/181
Scrapbook material, correspondence
41 items
1940-1950
5/182
Scrapbook
1 item
1934-1959
5/183
Daily diary
1 item
1950
5/184
Photograph album
1 item
ca. 1948
5/185
Photograph album
1 item
ca. 1953
os/186
Scrapbook of Washington school life and other things
1947-1948
os/186a-b
Tim Goff's Washington year books
2 items
1948-1949
Box
6
Plaques
7 items
1976-1983
Box/Folder
os/187
Florence Richardson: U of I scrapbook
1 item
1914-1918
os/188
Phonograph recordings of radio addresses of Abe Goff
5 items
1947, 1948

Series II. Political, 1940-1971Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
7/189
Campaign material
5 items
1941-1950
7/190
Certificate of election to State Senate
1 item
1940
7/191
Legislative scrapbook
1 item
1941
7/192
State Senate, correspondence, etc.
78 items
1941
7/193
Appearances at hearings before Congressional Committees
9 items
1947-1948
7/194
Campaign expenses
8 items
1946
7/195
Campaign expense account
1 item
1947-1948
7/196
Campaign publicity
35 items
1946-1950
7/197
Congressional career, miscellaneous
10 items
1947-1948
7/198
Congressional speeches
25 items
1947-1948
7/199
Correspondence re: photographs
17 items
1947-1948
7/200
Elections
9 items
1946-1948
7/201
Individual voting record, 80th Congress
2 items
1947-1948
7/202
Information on inquiry re: Senate Committee print, courts martial
5 items
1948
7/203
Pictorial directory, 80th Congress
2 items
1947
7/204
Post Office: Air mail
1 item
1948
7/205
General
7 items
1948
7/206
Railway surface trans. Positions
5 items
1947
7/207
Postal Employees: Pay increases
79 items
1947-1948
7/208
Retirement, Civil Service
37 items
1947-1948
7/209
Postal rates
16 items
1947
os/210
Scrapbook
1 item
1946-1947
7/211-212
Soil conservation, Agriculture
77 items
1946-1948
7/213
Veterans, Adjusted compensation act
3 items
1947-1948
7/214
G.I. flight training
19 items
1948
7/215
80th Congress reunion
17 items
1971
7/216
Campaign
67 items
1948
7/217
Clippings and ads
16 items
1948
7/218
Drew Pearson election comment
1 item
1948
7/219
Election
31 items
1948
7/220
Expenses
8 items
1948
7/221
Politics: Senate
27 items
1949
7/222
Campaign
21 items
1950
7/223
Publicity
13 items
1950
7/224
Signed petitions
14 items
1950
7/225
Signers of petitions, correspondence
46 items
1950
7/226
Tour
8 items
1950
7/227
Travel file
24 items
1950
7/228
Senate election returns
20 items
1950

Series III. Law Office, Moscow, 1928-1963Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
8/229-232
Correspondence, A-Z
355 items
1938-1941
8/233
Law office matters
110 items
1954-1963
8/234
Miscellaneous correspondence
81 items
1949-1952
8/235
Mills Novelty vs. Evans
8 items
1941
8/236
Milsap vs. Friend
4 items
1941
8/237
Moscow vs. Northwest Refining Co.
22 items
1939-1940
8/238
Moscow Tractor Company
12 items
1941
8/239
Moscow Welfare Committee
2 items
1939
8/240
Muir vs. Muir
13 items
1938
8/241
Mulalley, Walter
1 item
1941
8/242
Mulfinger - Collins
5 items
1940-1948
8/243
Mullaley vs. Schultz
7 items
1940
8/244
Prosecuting Attorney's Association
59 items
1928-1932
8/245-246
Reports, Quarterly and yearly
82 items
1949-1954
8/247
Uncompleted work
24 items
1951-1954
8/248
Workmen's Compensation
4 items
1949-1953

Series IV. Military, 1929-1983Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
8/249
Army Records
30 items
1929-1983
8/250
Army service 201 file
156 items
1937-1962
8/251
British treaties: Egypt, Iran, Iraq
9 items
1942-1944
8/252
Eritrea Service Command: progress reports, minutes of staff meetings
55 items
1942-1943
8/253
United States Military North Africa Mission: Circular file
64 items
1941-1942
8/254
General orders
8 items
1942
8/255
Memoranda
40 items
1942
8/256
North Africa Service Command: Special orders
37 items
1942
os/257
Eritrean Gazette
1 item
1941-1943
os/258
Military medals, framed
1 item
8/259-260
Military justice
49 items
1946-1972
8/261
Military metals, decorations
10 items
1942-1968
8/262
Retired reserve certificate
1 item
1957

Series V. Post Office, 1954-1978Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
8/263
Clippings
69 items
1954-1957
8/264
Congratulatory letters
41 items
1954
8/265
Post Office Department
25 items
1956-1978

Series VI. Interstate Commerce Commission, 1958-1981Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
8/266
Administrative law
6 items
1967-1969
8/267
Administrative procedure
5 items
1967-1968
8/268
Allowances for trucking cotton
3 items
1967
8/269
Appointment program
1 item
1958
8/270
Bureau of the Budget, (old file)
1 item
1946
8/271
Bus segregation case
5 items
1961
9/272
C & O, B & O merger case
5 items
1961-1964
9/273
Chairman Goff, news stories
14 items
1964
9/274-277
Chairman, Presidential appointment of
99 items
1964-1967
9/278
Clippings
69 items
1962-1967
9/279
Commissioners: Correspondence, clippings
28 items
1968-1981
9/280
Signature reproductions
1 item
1958
9/281
Critics of the ICC
54 items
1971
9/282
Democratic National Committee letter: Short Line speech
10 items
1965
9/283
Ethical standards, Heads of agencies (executive order 11222)
22 items
1965-1966
9/284
Ethics
27 items
1961-1966
9/285
Executive interference
56 items
1963-1965
9/286
Exit from ICC
42 items
1967
9/287
Farewell to ICC, jokes and speeches
13 items
1967
9/288
GN NP merger
5 items
1967-1970
9/289
Important memos: Reorganization, engagements, etc.
15 items
1964-1967
9/290-291
Inter-office memos
375 items
1965
9/292-293
Inter-office memos
350 items
1966
9/294
Lore and personalities committee
10 items
1965-1966
9/295
Mergers
20 items
1967
9/296
Miscellaneous material from desk
23 items
1961-1967
9/297
Newsletters
7 items
1964-1969
9/298
Newsletter clippings
116 items
1953-1967
9/299
Non-reappointment letters
25 items
1967
9/300
Pacific Northwest Trade Association
7 items
1967-1968
9/301
Reappointment to ICC, correspondence, clippings
92 items
1966-1967
9/302
Reappointment, personal memos
7 items
1966
9/303
Speeches, testimony, articles
11 items
1962-1966

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Subject Terms

  • Lawyers -- Idaho -- Moscow -- Records and correspondence
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North -- History -- Sources

Corporate Names

  • United States. Interstate Commerce Commission -- History -- Sources
  • United States. Post Office Dept. -- History -- Sources

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Goff, Abe McGregor, 1899-1984--Archives.