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Oscar S. Cox Papers | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Collection Overview

Title: Oscar S. Cox PapersAdd to your cart.

Primary Creator: Cox, Oscar

Extent: 67.7 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: The papers are arranged into eight series.  Those series are generally arranged alphabetically, and then chronologically.

Date Acquired: 08/03/1967

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The papers are divided into eight series. The first five focus on Cox's various roles as a legal and adminstrative council in the president's administration up to and during World War II (1938-1945).  The contents are of an official nature, except for personal correspondence which is confined to paragraphs in otherwise official letters, and diaries.  They reflect Cox's involvement in his various federal government posts, but because of his many assignments, often held concurrently, the files overlap. General Counsel, Lend-Lease Administration and Office of Emergency Management material, are located both in the files pertaining to lend-lease and the Justice Department.

Collection Historical Note

Oscar Sydney Cox was born in Portland, Maine, on December 3, 1905. He attended Masschusetts Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.B. (1927) and LL.B. (1929) from Yale University.  Cox was associated with the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, and a member of both the Supreme Court and New York bars from 1929 to 1934. He was appointed the City of New York's assistant corporation counsel in charge of taxes (1934), and held this post until 1938. His federal government career began in 1938 when he was appointed Assistant to the General Counsel, U. S. Treasury Department, a post he held until 1941. Cox then served as General Counsel of both the Lend-Lease Administration and the Office of Emergency Management (1941-1943); Assistant Solicitor General of the United States (Feb., 1942-Dec., 1943); General Counsel, Foreign Economic Administration (Dec., 1943-Jan., 1945); and Deputy Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration (Jan.-Oct., 1945). Mr. Cox died in Washington, D. C. on October 4, 1966.

Administrative Information

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions: This collection is available for use by the general public.

Use Restrictions: These papers contain documents restricted in accordance with Executive Order 11652; also material which might be used to embarrass, harass or injure living persons has been closed.

Acquisition Source: Mrs. Oscar Cox

Acquisition Method: Donation

Related Materials: Material relating to Oscar Cox will be found in PPF 8746 (Oscar Cox). Material related to his service in the Treasury Department will be found in PSF: Treasury and OF 21 (Treasury Department); Lend-Lease and OF 4193 (Lend-Lease Agreements); Office of Solicitor General in OF 10-F (Solicitor General); and Foreign Economic Administration in OF 5430 (Foreign Economic Administration).

Box and Folder Listing


Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Alphabetical File],
[Series 2: Treasury Department Files, 1938-1941],
[Series 3: Justice Department Files, 1941-1943],
[Series 4: Lend Lease File],
[Series 5: United Nations File],
[Series 6: Subject File, 1944-1963],
[Series 7: Diaries and Related Materials],
[Series 8: Clippings],
[All]


Series 4: Lend Lease FileAdd to your cart.
Correspondence for the period 1941-45 arranged alphabetically either by surname of correspondent or by subject (Containers 78-107) and chronologically (Containers 108-119), with two containers of newspaper clippings. The material is concerned with official matters while Cox was serving as General Counsel, Lend-Lease Administration.  Also contains material relating to the Foreign Economic Administration.

Box 78Add to your cart.

Administration: Policy and ProcedureAdd to your cart.

Aid to Britain - LegislationAdd to your cart.

Aid to Britain - Vol. IIAdd to your cart.

Aid to Britain - Vol. IIIAdd to your cart.

Aid to Britain - Vol. IVAdd to your cart.

Aid to Britain - Vol. VAdd to your cart.

Aid to Britain - Vol. VIAdd to your cart.

Box 79Add to your cart.

Aid to Reoccupied CountriesAdd to your cart.

Aircraft Procurement - Extra Copies - LegislationAdd to your cart.

Aircraft Program, Clippi ngsAdd to your cart.

Board of Economic Warfare - Executive OrderAdd to your cart.

Book (re. Lend- Lease)Add to your cart.

British 3(c) AgreementAdd to your cart.

British-financed Plants in U.S.Add to your cart.

British Reciprocal AidAdd to your cart.

Byrnes, James F., from Cox, April, 1943-December 7, 1943Add to your cart.

Byrnes, James F., from Cox, January 1944-September 1945Add to your cart.

Clayton, William L, from Cox, February 1944-September 1945Add to your cart.

Commodity Credit CorporationAdd to your cart.

Commonwealth Supply CouncilAdd to your cart.

Box 80Add to your cart.

Congressional AppropriationsAdd to your cart.

Congressional Inquiries and CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.

Congressional Record DigestAdd to your cart.

Correspond, November 1943Add to your cart.

Correspondence Going Outside Foreign Economic Administration, December 1943Add to your cart.

ClippingsAdd to your cart.

Crowley, Leo, September 1943-December 1943Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo, January 1944-August 1944Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo, September 1944-December 1944Add to your cart.

Box 81Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo, January 1945-July 1945Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo - Memoranda approved or drafted by Cox, October 1943-December 1943Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo - Memoranda approved or drafted by Cox, 1944Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo - Memoranda approved or drafted by Cox, January 1945-July 1945Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo - Cox memoranda to, 1943Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo - Pending MattersAdd to your cart.

Crowley, Leo - Speech, January 1944Add to your cart.

Box 82Add to your cart.

Crowley, Leo - Speeches and StatementsAdd to your cart.

Crowley - Stettinius Weekly MeetingsAdd to your cart.

Customs - Free Entry to U.S. of Critical and Strategic MaterialsAdd to your cart.

Daniels, Jonathan, 1945Add to your cart.

Department of Suppl yAdd to your cart.

Disposal of Defense Articles on Hand and on OrderAdd to your cart.

Draft StatusAdd to your cart.

Early, Steve, May 1944-July 1945Add to your cart.

Economic Warfare - FinlandAdd to your cart.

Economic Warfare - Portugal and SpainAdd to your cart.

Economic Warfare - SwedenAdd to your cart.

Economic Warfare - SwitzerlandAdd to your cart.

Economic Warfare - TurkeyAdd to your cart.

Box 83Add to your cart.

End of War ThinkingAdd to your cart.

Enemy Branch - Statement of Activities, September 30, 1945Add to your cart.

Excess Army StocksAdd to your cart.

Extra Copy FileAdd to your cart.

Five Senators - Statements, October 1943Add to your cart.

Food ProgramAdd to your cart.

Foreign Economic AdministrationAdd to your cart.

GeneralAdd to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration - Projects, 1943-1944Add to your cart.

Box 84Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration - Vol IIAdd to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration - (Committees)Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic SettlementAdd to your cart.

French Dollar Position and Reciprocal Aid MattersAdd to your cart.

French Import ProgramAdd to your cart.

Fulbright ResolutionAdd to your cart.

Fulton, Hugh, April 1945-May 1945Add to your cart.

G.I. Booklet - "How Shall Lend-Lease Accounts be Settled?"Add to your cart.

German Ferro-Alloy PositionAdd to your cart.

Germany (including Memorandum on Post-War German Industrial Problems)Add to your cart.

Box 85Add to your cart.

Germany - Dr. George Wunderlich MemorandaAdd to your cart.

Germany - General (1)Add to your cart.

Germany - General (2)Add to your cart.

Germany - Ruhr-SaarAdd to your cart.

Box 86Add to your cart.

Germany - CartelsAdd to your cart.

Germany - Flight of CapitalAdd to your cart.

Germany - Economic Cont rol ofAdd to your cart.

Harriman, W. Averell, (September 1943-November 1943Add to your cart.

Harriman, W. Averell, January 1944-June 1944Add to your cart.

Hopkins, Harry L., October 1942-June 1943Add to your cart.

Hopkins, Harry L., July 1943-December 1943Add to your cart.

Box 87Add to your cart.

Hopkins, Harry L ., January 1944-September 1944Add to your cart.

Hopkins, Harry L., October 1944-December 1944Add to your cart.

Hopkins, Harry L., January 1945-June 1945Add to your cart.

Hopkins, Harry L. - Inactive (Correspondence - Robert E. Sherwood)Add to your cart.

H. R. 1776 (Lend-Lease Bill) - ClippingsAdd to your cart.

H. R. 1776 - Drafts of BillAdd to your cart.

Box 88Add to your cart.

H. R. 1776 - Hearings onAdd to your cart.

H. R. 1776-  Debate on - SpeechAdd to your cart.

H. R. 1776 - AmendmentsAdd to your cart.

H. R. 1776 - Legal OpinionsAdd to your cart.

H. R. 1776 - Reports onAdd to your cart.

H. R. 1776 - Executive OrderAdd to your cart.

Box 89Add to your cart.

Imports from Italy and SicilyAdd to your cart.

Import Supply Program, Ninety DayAdd to your cart.

Investigation (of Foreign Economic Administration) by Senate Appropriations CommitteeAdd to your cart.

Invisible Weapon (A War Department pamphlet)Add to your cart.

Kaiser, Henry J., March 1943-December 1943Add to your cart.

Kaiser, Henry J., 1944-1945Add to your cart.

League of NationsAdd to your cart.

Legal PersonnelAdd to your cart.

Legislative ProgramAdd to your cart.

Lend-Lease (General)Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease Administrative MemorandaAdd to your cart.

Lend-Lease Bill - Vol. 2Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease InvestigationAdd to your cart.

Box 90Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease - Miscellaneous Papers, Reports, Clippings (1)Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease - Mis cellaneous Papers, Reports, Clippings (2)Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease - Miscellaneous Printed MaterialsAdd to your cart.

Box 91Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - British Defense Regulations, 1939Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - National Defense Legislation - Volume I, 1940Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - National Defense Legislation - Volume III, 1941Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - National Defense Legislation - Volume IV, 1941Add to your cart.

Box 92Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - National Defense Legislation - Volume VAdd to your cart.

National Defense, Expropriation of Property for (2 copies)Add to your cart.

Supreme Court DecisionsAdd to your cart.

Box 93Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - House of Representatives Hearings, Reports, LawsAdd to your cart.

Lend Lease - Hearings, January 15, 1941-January 29, 1941Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - Senate Hearing, ReportsAdd to your cart.

Box 94Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - Reports 1-24, 28-30, 32- President's Message onAdd to your cart.

Lend Lease - Hearings, Reports, Debates, March 1941Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - Hearings, Reports, Debates, October 1941Add to your cart.

Box 95Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease - Second Appropriation Bill, October 1941Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease - Fourth Appropriation Bill, June 1943Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease Act - Extension, March 1943Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease Act - Second Extension, May 1944Add to your cart.

Box 96Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - Reports 1-9 and Special ReportAdd to your cart.

Lend Lease - Reports 1-14Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - First ReportAdd to your cart.

Lend Lease - Extension Act, 1943Add to your cart.

Box 97Add to your cart.

Lend Lease - First and Second ReportsAdd to your cart.

Lend Lease - "A Study of It's Formulation, Operation, and Implications" - Jesse SilbersteinAdd to your cart.

State Department OrdersAdd to your cart.

Perpetual Date Book, 1944Add to your cart.

Perpetual Date Book, 1946Add to your cart.

Box 98Add to your cart.

Lend-Lease: British RequirementsAdd to your cart.

Lend-Lease: 6th AppropriationAdd to your cart.

Lend-Lease Personnel - Combined Chiefs of StaffAdd to your cart.

Lend-Lease SettlementAdd to your cart.

Lend-Lease, Termination ofAdd to your cart.

MiscellaneousAdd to your cart.

Munitions Assignments BoardAdd to your cart.

Box 99Add to your cart.

Nazi Laws in Occupied CountriesAdd to your cart.

Neutrality ActAdd to your cart.

Participation by Members of Executive in Debates in CongressAdd to your cart.

Peace (1)Add to your cart.

Peace (2)Add to your cart.

Peace TreatyAdd to your cart.

Box 100Add to your cart.

PhilippinesAdd to your cart.

Post War - ForeignAdd to your cart.

Public Opinion Material (I)Add to your cart.

Public Opinion Material (II)Add to your cart.

Public Opinion Polls (1)Add to your cart.

Public Opinion Polls (2)Add to your cart.

Box 101Add to your cart.

Ration Coupons, Surrender ofAdd to your cart.

RedeploymentAdd to your cart.

RefugeesAdd to your cart.

Report, Thirteenth Lend-LeaseAdd to your cart.

Reports, Lend-Lease: Drafts (1)Add to your cart.

Reports, Lend-Lease: Drafts (2)Add to your cart.

Reports, Lend-Lease: Drafts (3)Add to your cart.

Box 102Add to your cart.

Reverse Lend-LeaseAdd to your cart.

Restoration of Property in TunisiaAdd to your cart.

Requests for Gold and Dollar PositionsAdd to your cart.

Roosevelt, President, April 1944-March 1945Add to your cart.

Rosenman, Samuel I., April 1942-December 1943Add to your cart.

Rosenman, Samuel I., January 1944-December 1944Add to your cart.

Rosenman, Samuel I., January 1945-September 1945Add to your cart.

Box 103Add to your cart.

Rosenman Report (1), January 20, 1945Add to your cart.

Rosenman Report (2), January 20, 1945Add to your cart.

Russia - Reconstruction (1)Add to your cart.

Russia - Reconstruction (2)Add to your cart.

Russia - Third Protocol, Patent Matters, etc.Add to your cart.

Russian AidAdd to your cart.

Russian OilAdd to your cart.

Russian War Relief and Polish War ReliefAdd to your cart.

Box 104Add to your cart.

Safe Haven ActivitiesAdd to your cart.

Salaries of EmployeesAdd to your cart.

Space (Foreign Economic Administration)Add to your cart.

Stage II - British-American StatementsAdd to your cart.

State Department - Foreign Economic Administration: Agreements and RelationshipsAdd to your cart.

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., May 1943-December 1943Add to your cart.

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., January 1944-December 1944Add to your cart.

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., January 1945-July 1945Add to your cart.

Box 105Add to your cart.

Studies - Economies and TradeAdd to your cart.

Synthetic RubberAdd to your cart.

Treasury Department - Authority to lend-lease monetary silverAdd to your cart.

Treaty of Demil itarizationAdd to your cart.

Trucks for Liberated AreasAdd to your cart.

Truman, Harry S., 19445Add to your cart.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (1), 1942-1945Add to your cart.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (2), 1942-1945Add to your cart.

Box 106Add to your cart.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (Vol. II)Add to your cart.

United States of America Handbook (Office of War Information)Add to your cart.

United States Commercial Company - Foreign Economic Administration MattersAdd to your cart.

Urgent Supply Program for Liberated Areas (Vol . II)Add to your cart.

Vinson, Fred M. (Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion)Add to your cart.

War and Peace Aims of the United NationsAdd to your cart.

Box 107Add to your cart.

War Facilities Expansion (War Production Board Statistical Reports)Add to your cart.

War PricesAdd to your cart.

Box 108Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, February 1941-April 1941Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, May 1941-June 1941Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, July 1941Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, August 1941Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, September 1941Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, October 1941Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, November 1941Add to your cart.

Box 109Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, December 1941Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, January 1942Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, February 1942Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, March 1942Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, April 1942-May 1942Add to your cart.

Box 110Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, June 1942-September 1942Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, October 1942-December 1942Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, January 1943Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, February 1943-March 1943Add to your cart.

Box 111Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, April 1943-May 1943Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, June 1943-July 1943Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, August 1943-October 1943Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, November 1943Add to your cart.

Box 112Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, December 1943Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration Brought over from Justice (1), 1943Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration Brought over from Justice (2), 1943Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration Brought over from Justice (3), 1943Add to your cart.

Box 113Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, January 1, 1944-January 15, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, January 16, 1944-January 31, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, February 1, 1944-February 15, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, February 16, 1944-February 29, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, March 1, 1944-March 15, 1944Add to your cart.

Box 114Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, March 16, 1944-March 31, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, April 1, 1944-April 15, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, April 16, 1944-April 30, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, May 1, 1944-May 15, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, May 16, 1944-May 30, 1944Add to your cart.

Box 115Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, June 1, 1944-June 15, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, June 16, 1944-June 30, 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, July 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, August 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, September 1944Add to your cart.

Box 116Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, October 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, November 1944Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, December 1944Add to your cart.

Box 117Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, January 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, February 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, March 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, April 1, 1945-April 18, 1945Add to your cart.

Box 118Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, April 19, 1945-April 30, 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, May 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, June 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, July 1945Add to your cart.

Box 119Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, August 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, September 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, October 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, November 1945Add to your cart.

Foreign Economic Administration, December 1945Add to your cart.

Box 120Add to your cart.

Clippings, Lend Lease (1)Add to your cart.

Clippings, Lend Lease (2)Add to your cart.

Box 121Add to your cart.

Clippings, Lend Lease (3)Add to your cart.

Clippings, Lend Lease (4)Add to your cart.

"Economic Warfare Facilities of

the Government",  by Phil Marcus

Add to your cart.

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Alphabetical File],
[Series 2: Treasury Department Files, 1938-1941],
[Series 3: Justice Department Files, 1941-1943],
[Series 4: Lend Lease File],
[Series 5: United Nations File],
[Series 6: Subject File, 1944-1963],
[Series 7: Diaries and Related Materials],
[Series 8: Clippings],
[All]