State of Tennessee Department of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312 FRANK GOAD CLEMENT GOVERNOR’S PAPERS, 1963-1967 GP 49 Processed by: Archival Technical Services INTRODUCTION This finding aid covers the gubernatorial papers of the third term of Tennessee Governor Frank Goad Clement, from 1963-1967. It consists of 105 boxes of materials that consist of correspondence, speeches, proclamations, extraditions and renditions, financial records, lists, photographs, press releases, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous materials. In this collection there is also a supplement of 29 boxes of bills and receipts, correspondence, court records, printed materials, invitations, legal documents, photographs, sketches, and campaign materials, that were missed when the third term materials were processed. There are no restrictions on the use of the materials and researchers may make copies of individual items for individual or scholarly use. SCOPE AND CONTENT This finding aid covers the official papers of the third term of Tennessee Governor Frank Goad Clement for 1963-1967. They consist of 105 boxes of materials such as correspondence, speeches, proclamations, extraditions and renditions, financial records, lists, photographs, press releases, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous materials. There is also a supplement of 29 boxes of bills and receipts, correspondence, court records, printed materials, invitations, legal documents, photographs, sketches, and campaign materials, that were missed when the third term materials were originally processed. The changes which occurred in Tennessee during the 1950s and 1960s were partly the result of political and economic changes affecting the entire nation. The scope of these changes and the speed with which they were accomplished in Tennessee, however, owed much to political philosophy of Frank Clement. He greatly expanded the governor’s role, as well as that of the state government in general. During his three administrations, Tennessee accepted new responsibilities to its citizens and created new bureaucracies to administer them. Much of the correspondence reflects the impact on Tennessee and Tennesseans of intensely emotional national crises of the 1950s and 1960s. Clement’s response to the segregation question, for example, set him apart form other Southern governors and produced thousands of letters from all over the country. This correspondence reflected the extremes of emotional response to the issue by Tennesseans and other Americans, as well as Clement’s genuine concern for a course of action which would be legal, fair and satisfactory to his own conscience. Almost as emotional in tone is the correspondence concerning labor law, unrest and corruption, as well as that in regard to his stand on the abolishment of capital punishment in 1965, all of which were divisive issues during Clement’s tenure. In addition to the various types of written records, the Clement papers also include numerous photographs taken during his administrations. Unfortunately, many of the events, dates or persons recorded in these photographs were not identified. Persons associated with the Clement administrations were asked for help and were, indeed, able to identify many subjects. However, may photographs remain unidentified. The papers of the third administration are noticeably less voluminous that those of the first two. It is unclear why this is so. The great volume of fan mail received by Clement during his first six years in office is not there. There is no way of knowing whether it was discarded by the office staff or simply did not come in the same tidal wave proportions. Also, much of the correspondence of the third administration is less substantive than in the first two. It is possible that, in line with a fairly general tendency of late twentieth-century governments and business, decisions and policy were increasingly discussed in person or over the telephone rather than by mail, as long distance telephoning and long distance travel became cheaper and more efficient. When the papers of the Clement administration were received in the Archives, they were approximately three times the present volume. Significant reduction in volume was achieved through discarding of extraneous materials: envelopes; printed and unmarked duplicates of correspondence, press releases, etc; and many news clippings from Tennessee newspapers. (Clippings from out-of-state newspapers have been retained, however.) Several cubic feet of materials, dating from the period before Clement first assumed the governorship and from the period between 1959 and 1963 were considered private rather than official papers and were transferred to the Manuscript Collection. Other materials actually were produced by the Browning and Ellington administrations and were transferred to those record groups. The box numbering for Clement’s third term picks up where the first two terms leave off, with Box 501 being the first one in this finding aid. The supplement at the end of this finding aid’s boxes are numbered 1 through 29. SUBGROUP/SERIES INDEX Subgroup Series Subseries Box Numbers III Correspondence Executive Departments 1-9 Boards and Commissions 10-18 Judicial 19 Legislative 20-22 Subject 23-39 County 40 General and Miscellaneous 41-68 Courtesy Letters 69-71 Extraditions and Extraditions 74-76 Renditions Renditions 77-79 Extraditions and Renditions 80-90 Financial Records Financial Records 91-103 Lists Lists 103 Photographs Prints 104-105, 122 CABINET OFFICERS--CLEMENT ADMINSTRATION 1963-1967 Office Cabinet Member Secretary_______________ Administrative Assistant Anna Belle Clement 2328 Gale Johnson Executive Assistant Col. Billy Shoulders 2001 Jeanne Drown Special Assistant Tom Beasley 2001 Special Assistant Nobel Caudill 2001 Lute Gilbreath Press Secretary Eddie Jones 2001 Jo Bassham Coordinator of Federal-Sate Programs Roy Nicks 2001 Kathleen Gross Comptroller Wm. R. Snodgrass 2501 Betty Brown Secretary of State Joe C. Carr 2816 Trella Cunningham Treasurer Jim Alexander 2957 Loretta Johnson Adjutant General Van D. Nunally, Jr. 5166 Marjorie Oakley Agriculture W.F. (Red) Moss 4825 Mary Satterfield Conservation Don McSween 2301 Bebe Zuccarello Correction Harry S. Avery 2071 Kathleen Sims Education Howard Warf 2731 Bessie Reed Employment Security Mrs. C. Frank Scott 2131 Sara Balls Finance and Administration Harlan Mathews 2401 Virginia Andes Highways Dave Pack 2848 Hilda Temple Industrial Development Ralph Emerson 2540 Lorena McDonald Insurance Albert Williams 2241 Mary Shields Labor W.H. Parham 2134 Corrinne Ransom Law Enforcement Training Academy Gen. G. Hilton Butler 5178 Dortha Crenshaw Mental Health Dr. Nat Winston 3107 Helen Winsett Personnel Keith Hampton 2958 Florence Slavin Public Health Dr. R.H. Hutcheson 3111 Margaret Bickford Public Welfare Herman Yeatman 3241 Dayna Downey Purchasing Grundy Quarles 2081 Myrtice Allen Revenue Don King 2461 Becky Rice Safety Greg O’Rear 2101 Martha Rimlinger Veteran’s Affairs Joe F. Hudgens 2931 Sue Smothers Banking Marvin Bryan 2236 Helen Johnson Game and Fish Fred Stanberry 2095 Mary D. Walker CONTAINER LIST Subgroup: III Third Administration, 1963-1976 Series: A Correspondence Subseries: 1 Executive Departments M. F. Roll #1 Box 1 1 Agriculture Apr-Dec, 1963 2 Agriculture Jan-Dec, 1964 3 Agriculture Jan-Sept, 1965 4 Agriculture Jan-Oct, 1966 5 Adjutant General Feb, 1963-Aug, 1964 6 Adjutant General Oct, 1964-Dec, 1965 7 Adjutant General Feb, 1966-Aug, 1966 8 Adjutant General-National Guard May, 1963-Dec, 1964 9 Adjutant General-National Guard Jan, 1965-Feb, 1966 10 Adjutant General-Air National Guard June, 1963-Dec, 1963 11 Adjutant General-Air National Guard Jan-Dec, 1964 12 Adjutant General-Air National Guard Jan-Nov, 1965 13 Adjutant General-Air National Guard Jan-Sept, 1966 14 Attorney General Jan-Feb, 1964 15 Attorney General Mar-Apr, 1964 16 Attorney General May-July, 1964 17 Attorney General Aug, 1964 Box 2 1 Attorney General Sept-Nov, 1964 2 Attorney General-Opinions Jan-Feb, 1964 3 Attorney General-Opinions Mar-Apr, 1964 4 Attorney General-Opinions May-June, 1964 5 Attorney General-Opinions July-Aug, 1964 6 Attorney General-Opinions Sept-Oct, 1964 7 Attorney General-Opinions Nov-Dec, 1964 8 Attorney General-Opinions June, 1965 9 Conservation Mar-Aug, 1963 10 Conservation Jan-May, 1964 11 Conservation June, 1964-Mar, 1965 12 Conservation May-Nov, 1965 13 Conservation Jan-Dec, 1966 14 Conservation-Commissioner’s Files Mar-Apr, 1964 15 Conservation-Commissioner’s Files Feb-Dec, 1965 16 Conservation-Commissioner’s Files Mar-Aug, 1966 17 Corrections Apr-July, 1963 18 Corrections Aug-Nov, 1963 19 Corrections Jan-Mar, 1964 20 Corrections Apr-June, 1964 21 District Attorney General Commission Jan, 1963-Dec, 1965 Box 3 1 Corrections July-Sept, 1964 2 Corrections Nov-Dec, 1964 3 Corrections Jan-Mar, 1965 4 Corrections May-Sept, 1965 5 Corrections Oct-Dec, 1965 6 Corrections Jan-Feb, 1966 7 Corrections Mar, 1966 8 Corrections Apr-June, 1966 9 Corrections July-Dec, 1966 10 Corrections-Probation & Paroles Jan-Mar, 1963 11 Corrections-Probation & Paroles Apr-May, 1963 12 Corrections-Probation & Paroles June-Dec, 1963 13 Corrections-Probation & Paroles Feb-Sept, 1964 14 Corrections-Probation & Paroles Mar-Dec, 1966 15 Corrections-State Penitentiary Jan-July, 1963 16 Education Mar-May, 1963 17 Education June-Oct, 1963 18 Education Jan-Oct, 1964 19 Education Jan-Apr, 1965 20 Education May-Nov, 1965 21 Education Jan-Sept, 1966 Box 4 1 East Tennessee State