Commissioner’s administration subject files [Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance]
Commissioner's administration subject files, 1956-1980 (Bulk: 1963-1965).
Call no.: AF1/2226
Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.
Arrangement: Arranged chiefly alphabetically by subject
Notes: Series constitutes part of the papers of William Augustus Waldron, an attorney practicing in Boston with an additional career in public administration. He held posts with the New York State Assembly and Constitutional Convention (1937-1938), the federal Dept. of Justice (1942), and the National War Labor Board (1942-1945); and in Massachusetts served with the Special Commission on the Structure of the State Government (1950-1954, from 1952 as executive director), as special assistant attorney general (1962), as commissioner of administration (1963-1965), and as special counsel to the General Court’s House Rules Committee (1969, 1971, 1973-1974) –See also: Massachusetts. Special Commission on the Structure of the State Government. Commission files, 1950-1954 (bulk 1952-1953) ((M-Ar)2227X); Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Committee on Rules. Cabinet and post-cabinet reorganization files, 1956-1977 ((M-Ar)2228X)
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