Biographical material

This collection contains correspondence, business records, litigation documents, teaching notes and materials, bulletins and reports, speeches, manuscript writings, photographs, financial records, books, clippings, scrapbooks, and ephemera documenting the life and career of Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and spans 1902 to 1957. It should be noted that the materials are vast, including drafts of judicial opinions over the last ten years of Vanderbilt's life. The first series on Education contains material pertaining to his education at Newark High School, Wesleyan University, and Columbia Law School. It also contains records and correspondence relating to Vanderbilt's Delta Kappa Epsilon Alumni Activities from 1925 to 1957, and correspondence relating to his service on the Wesleyan University Board of Trustees from 1934 to 1957 and as its President from 1946 to 1947. The Law Practice series consists of materials relating to Vanderbilt's private law practice, spanning 1914 to 1947. It includes client lists and litigation files, account books and other financial records, work records, briefs, and legal diaries. The New York University School of Law series documents Vanderbilt's roles there as both professor and dean, and spans 1914 to 1947. It contains teaching notes, correspondence, articles written by Vanderbilt and related materials, NYU statistical and administrative materials, reports and memos related to the NYU Law Center Institutes, materials related to the Root-Tilden Scholarship Program, Citizenship Clearing House, and Institute of Judicial Administration, as well as materials more generally related to NYU. The Political Activities series contains campaign records, correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings, reports and election statistics, and other materials related to Vanderbilt's political career, spanning the dates 1919 to 1947. The Bar Association Activities series contains correspondence related to Vanderbilt's term as president of the American Bar Association from 1936 to 1939 as well as more general correspondence, reports, and documentation of ABA activities from 1936 to 1957. It also contains a small amount of material on Essex County and New Jersey Bar Association correspondence from the 1930s and 1940s. The Judicial Reform and Administration of Justice series contains correspondence, articles and clippings, reports, and memos documenting the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure during the 1940s, administrative law, the New Jersey Judicial Council during the 1930s and 1940s, the National Conference of Judicial Councils from the 1930s to the 1950s, the Advisory Committee of the United States Supreme Court on Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure during the 1940s, the Committee on Military Justice for the War Department from 1946 to 1950, the National Committee on Traffic Law Enforcement from 1938 to 1951, the Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the Government, and the New Jersey Constitutional Revision Movement from 1940 to 1948. The Chief Justice of New Jersey series contains the judicial opinions, correspondence, clippings, and subject files from Vanderbilt's term, 1948 to 1957. The Folders of Engagements series contains invitations, correspondence and other related materials, spanning 1938 to 1957. The following three series: Book Reviews and Financial; Books, Articles, and Addresses; and Writings - Unfinished, contain published and unpublished writings by Vanderbilt as well as a small amount of financial papers. The final series, Miscellaneous: Photographs, Travel, and Personal Interests, contain materials documenting Vanderbilt's personal life as well as unidentified files.