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BRADLEY DELAMATER NASH PAPERS, 1923-1966 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 1900 April 7 Born at Boston, Mass. Son of Edward and Allie (DeLamater) Nash 1923 Graduated cum laude from Harvard, majoring in economics and finance. 1924‑27 Engaged in banking business in Boston. 1927‑29 Secretary to Herbert Hoover. 1929 February to March 1932 National City Bank, New York City 1932 August to August 1935 Financial consultant with Reconstruction Finance Corporation, advising on proposals for self‑liquidating public works loans. 1935 July to July 1937 Returned to banking business in New York City with the firm of A.C. Allyn., principally in the underwriting of large municipal loans. 1937 August to 1940 Banking business with Delafield and Delafield in New York City. 1941 March to December 1942 Director of the Bureau of Finance, War Production Board. Devised loan and financial assistance programs to make possible the transition of large and small businesses from peacetime to war time production levels. Helped to organize the Smaller War Plants Corporation to assist businessmen with loans and technical assistance. 1942 December Resigned to accept a commission in the U.S. Army. Attended Military Government School at Charlottesville, N.C. Served in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. As Deputy Chief Revenue Officer for Italy Nash was engaged in efforts to rehabilitate the Italian revenue and budget systems. Discharged as a Lt. Col. in 1946. 1946 July to August 1947 Director, Disposal Policy Division, War Assets Administration. 1948 Campaigned for Thomas E. Dewey. 1948 December to September 1950 Banking business with Folger, Nolan., Inc, in Washington, D.C. 1951 August to 1952 Consultant to National Securities Resources Board In the Executive Office of the President. 1953 Consultant to President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization., popularly known as the Rockefeller Committee 1953‑56 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Aviation, USAF. 1956 Resigned his position to run for Congress from the 2nd Congressional district of West Virginia. Defeated in primaries 1956 June 30 Married to Ruth Cowan. 1957‑61 Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Transportation 1961‑63 Consultant to the U.S. Weather Bureau 1963‑64 Historian and consultant with the National Park Service The papers of Bradley DeLamater Nash, banker, government consultant, and army officer were given to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library by deed of gift on May 19, 1969 by Bradley DeLamater Nash. Additional accretions were received until 1991. Hoover staff reprocessed the Nash papers in 2014 to facilitate research. In doing this, the materials from the Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce series were folded into the Subject files series. Printed materials, reports, and government documents without marginal notes by Nash were removed from the collection at this time. SERIES DESCRIPTIONS Box 1‑2 Correspondence, 1945‑1966 3‑13 Professional files, 1923‑1964 . FOLDER LIST CORRESPONDENCE Box Contents 1 Correspondence, 1945-1957 (11 folders) 2 Correspondence, 1958-1966 (11 folders)
SUBJECT FILES Box Contents 3 Articles by B. D. Nash, 1923-1962 Luddites of the 20th Century, 1923 Banking Business, 1950 Budget 4 Correspondence (3 Folders) Crusade of Brotherhood [draft of Nash book on education of African-Americans], 1967 5 Deputy Undersecretary of Transportation. Commerce Department Cabinet File, 1958 6 Morgantown Airport, 1955-1957 Dewey Campaign of 1948 Campaign Details 7 Election of 1928 Correspondence Harpers Ferry Water Works Program, 1963‑1964 Correspondence 8 Inauguration, 1929 Correspondence, 1932-1935 Rockefeller Government Reorganization Committee Correspondence, 1952-1953 9 Memos to the President, 1953 Staffing the Presidency 1952-1953 British Secretariat 10 Original Manuscript United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – Letter from Joseph Johnson to John Davis, July 6, 1962 Veterans' Rehabilitation, 1945 Activities, 1946‑1947 11 Disposal Policy Division History, 1948 War Production Board Banking and Loans, 1942 12 West Virginia Centennial Centennial Commission, 1958-1960 White House Staffing and Organization, 1958-1960on [Nash chapter in book], 1980 13 World War II Military Government in Italy, 1943 (3 folders) |