Cabinet and post-cabinet reorganization files [Massachusetts General Court House of Representatives Committee on Rules]
Cabinet and post-cabinet reorganization files, 1956-1977.
Call no.: CT2.03/2228X
Scope and Content: St 1969, c 704 reorganized the executive branch of Massachusetts government into a cabinet system consisting of executive secretariats. Series documents the reorganization through files accumulated before, during, and after this process by William A. Waldron, who served as special counsel to the General Court’s House Committee on Rules, 1969, 1971, 1973-1974–at the time when the committee played a major role in that reorganization–and was associated with other organizations listed below. Files contain correspondence, notes, memorandums, reports, and background materials including print and near-print items.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Littauer Library, Harvard University, April 13, 2000. 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. Executive Office for Administration and Finance. Commissioner’s administration subject files, 1956-1980 (bulk 1963-1965) ((M-Ar)2226)
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