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Arthur Atwood Ballantine COMMITTEE O N THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Register of Papers Processed: IB Date: 10/25/55 ARTHUR ATWOOD BALLANTINE The papers of Arthur Ballantine, lawyer, Assistant Secretary and Under Secretary of the Treasury during the early 1930!s, are divided between his office and his apartment. Material in his office includes speeches made while Assistant and Under Secretary of the Treasury, 1931-1933> some correspondence and memoranda about the banking holiday and reopening of banks. His secretary estimates one hour would be sufficient to scan this material. Linear feet of shelf space occupied (or other measure): 1 file cabinet on public service plus 2 file cabinets of other material Approximate number of items: Material in his apartment includes a complete set of dayby-day memos (2 vols.) written during his time at the Treasury and a set of day-by-day memos written during banking crisis of 1933. Linear feet of shelf space occupied (or other measure): Approximate number of items* All rights to the papers remain with Mr. Ballantine; his secretary, Miss Shaw, says he is not too interested in them except for a few special items. Mr. Ballantine was ssked to discuss Banking Crisis of 1933 by Columbia Oral History Project, but refused. See internal memoranda, 4/20/55, B/9/55 Arthur Atvood Ballantine II - 2 ) Biographical Note 1883, Aug. 3 Born, Oberlin, Ohio 1904 A.B., Harvard 1907 LL.B., 1907, June 19 Married Helen Bailey Graves (five children) 1906-12 Lav practice in Boston with firm of Gaston, Snow Harvard and Saltonstall 1912-14. Member of firm, Gaston, Snow and Saltonstall 1907-09 Instructor, Harvard Law School 1907-14 Instructor, Northeastern Law School 1914. Became member of firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Ballantine in New York Advisory counsel on taxation matters, U, S. 1917 Treasury Department 1927 Solicitor on Internal Revenue Taxation 1931-32 Assistant to Secretary of the Treasury 1932-33 Under Secretary of the Treasury 1933-55 Law partner in Root, Ballantine, Harlan,, Bushby and Palmer, JMew York Source: Who's Who in America, 1952/53, vol. 27, Marcuis «1 Arthur Atvood Ballantine* V Optional Section The papers of Arthur Bailantine contain correspondence with (among others) the follo"wing persons: Marriner Eccles Ogden Mills Franklin D. Roosevelt William Woodin 1933
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