Commissioners

Chairman

Loyd Wright, Los Angeles, Calif., lawyer, LL. B., University of Southern California; LL. D., University of Ottawa; president, Los Angeles Bar Association, 1937–38; president, State Bar of California, 1940-41; president, American Bar Association, 1954–55; Chairman of the House of Delegates, International Bar Association; Commission on judicial and congressional salaries and other State and national commissions.

Vice Chairman

John Cornelius Stennis, DeKalb, Miss., United States Senator. B. S., Mississippi State College; LL. B., University of Virginia Law School; LL. D. Millsaps College; member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta fraternities; member of Farm Bureau; Mississippi and American Bar Association; president, State 4-H Club Advisory Council; elected to Mississippi House of Representatives; elected district prosecuting attorney, 16th Judicial District; appointed circuit judge, 16th Judicial District and three times elected; elected United States Senator in 1947 and currently serving in that office.

Members

Norris Cotton, Lebanon, N. H., United States Senator. Wesleyan University, George Washington University Law School; lawyer, firm of Cotton, Tesreau & Stebbins; prosecuting attorney for Grafton County, N. H.; justice, Municipal Court of Lebanon, Hagner & Co.; served during World War II as a member of the War Manpower Committee, majority leader, speaker, of the New Hampshire House of Representatives; elected to the 80th, 81st, 82d, and 83d Congresses; elected to the United States Senate in 1954 for 2 years; reelected to the United States Senate in 1956.

F. Moran McConihe, Cedarhurst, Long Island, N. Y., Pubic Buildings Commissioner. A. B., Princeton University; executive vice president of realty firm of Randall H. Hagner & Co.; served during World War II as a member of the War Manpower Commission and the United States Navy Manpower Survey Committee; named special consultant to the President on developing plans for eliminating temporary buildings in Washington, D. C.; member of National Association of Real Estate Boards, Washington Real Estate Board, and Citizens Zoning Advisory Committee of the District of Columbia. William M. McCulloch, Piqua, Ohio. Member of the United States House of Representatives. Student College of Wooster, Ohio, L.L. B., Ohio State University; member Ohio State and American Bar Associations; member of Ohio House of Repre

sentatives 6 terms, serving 3 years as minority leader and 3 terms as speaker; elected to the 80th, 81st, 82d, 83d, 84th, and 85th Congresses; member of law firm of McCulloch, Felger & Fite; director, The Piqua National Bank and Trust Company; director, The Third Savings and Loan Company.

James P. McGranery, P. C., K. C. S. G., K. H. S.; Philadelphia, Pa., lawyer. LL. B.: Temple University Law School. LL. D.: Villanova University, National University, Manhattanville College. HH. D.: LaSalle College. Trustee: Immaculata College. Member of Advisory Boards: Temple University Law School, Villanova University, Mount Saint Joseph College, Maryland. Elected to: 75th, 76th, 77th, and 78th Congresses, U. S. House of Representatives. Resigned November 1943 to become the Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States. Resigned October 1946 to become Judge of the United States District Court. Resigned May 1952 to become the Atorney General of the United States. Awarded Medal of Merit by President Truman, 1946. Honorary member: Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia and Bar Association for the District of Columbia.

Edwin L. Mechem, Albuquerque, N. Mex., Governor of New Mexico. N. M. College of A & MA, State College, New Mexico, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.; lawyer, practice of law with firms of Mechem & Mechem and Iden, Johnson & Mechem; 3 years special agent with the FBI; served as a member of the New Mexico Legislature; Governor of New Mexico 1951-54; elected Governor of New Mexico in 1956.

Franklin David Murphy, Lawrence, Kans., educator, Chancellor, University of Kansas, A. B., University of Kansas; M. D., University of Pennsylvania; LL. D. (hon.) Temple University; Sc. D. (hon.) University of Pennsylvania. Chairman, American Council on Education. President, State Universities Association.

James L. Noel, Jr., Houston, Tex., lawyer. Graduated from Southern Methodist University with civil engineering and law degrees; served as assistant attorney general of Texas; private practice of law; member of the Houston, American, and Texas Bar Associations; vice president of Houston Bar Association; chairman of State Bar of Texas Committee on Administration of Justice.

Susan B. Riley, Nashville, Tenn., educator, Professor of English. B. S., Blue Mountain College; A. M., Ph. D., George Peabody College for Teachers; graduate work at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities; honorary degrees of LL. D., University of Chattanooga, and Litt. D., Blue Mountain College; national president, American Association of University Women; member of Advisory Committee of the Foreign Operations Administration; member of American Association of University Professors, American Council on Education.

Louis Samuel Rothschild, Kansas City, Mo., Under Secretary of Commerce. Ph. B., Yale University; Chairman of the Board, Inland Waterways Corporation; Chairman, Federal Maritime Board, Maritime Administration, United States Department of Commerce; United States Delegate, NATO Planning Board for Ocean Shipping; member, City Planning Commission, Kansas City, Mo.; chairman, Menorah Foundation for Medical Research; director, Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo.; member, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Telecommunications Advisory Board; appointed to the Commission on Government Security by the President of the United States.

Francis Eugene Walter, Easton, Pa., Member of the United States House of Representatives. B. A., George Washington University; LL. B., Georgetown University; practice of law in Easton, Pa.; solicitor, Northampton County; director, Easton National Bank; vice president and director, Broad Street Trust Co., Philadelphia; elected to the 73d to 85th Congresses.

Staff

Administrative Director

D. Milton Ladd, Geneva, Fla., lawyer. LL. B., George Washington University Law School; LL. D., North Dakota Agricultural College; 33 years' Federal service in legistive and executive branches; 26 years with FBI as special agent in charge, Assistant Director and Assistant to the Director; member several interdepartmental intelligence committees; retired 1954 as assistant to the Director in charge of all FBI intelligence and criminal investigations; consultant on research, A Report on World Population Migrations (published 1956, George Washington University).

Chief Counsel

Samuel Halpern Liberman, St. Louis, Mo., lawyer. LL. B., University of Missouri; practiced law in the State of Missouri; president of the Bar Association of St. Louis; vice president, Missouri Bar Association; chairman of Missouri Bar Association committee to draft judicial articles for submission to the 1945 constitutional convention; served three terms in the house of delegates of the American Bar Association; city counselor of the city of St. Louis; Order of the Coif, Phi Alpha Delta.

Research Director

Richard A. Edwards, Easton, Pa., lawyer, educator. A. B., Indiana University; LL. B., Harvard Law School; Ph. D., Columbia University; associate professor of government and law, Lafayette College; consultant, Governor's Interdepartmental Committee on Migratory Labor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; coauthor, American Constitutional Law, the Foundation Press, Inc., 1954; member of the American Bar Association, United States Supreme Court Bar, American Political Science Association.

Project Surveys

Stanley J. Tracy, College Park, Md., lawyer. LL. B., George Washington University Law School; 35 years Federal service; author of articles and coauthor of book, Labor Laws and Court Decisions, annotated, 1925; retired 1954 as Assistant Director, FBI; two terms, president, General Alumni Association, George Washington University; research project director of book, A Report on World Population Migrations, published 1956 by George Washington University.

Chief Consultant

L. Dale Coffman, Los Angeles, Calif., lawyer, educator. B. A., State University of Iowa; J. D., State University of Iowa; LL. M., Harvard University; S. J. D., Harvard University; private practice of law; professor of law, University of Nebraska; dean of school of law, Vanderbilt University; dean of school of law, University of California; Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, Phi Delta Phi.

Executive Secretary

Douglas R. Price, Ruxton, Md. B. S., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant to Deputy Director, ICA; Republican National Committee, 1952-53; Eisenhower-for-President campaign staff, 1952–53.

CONSULTANTS

Richard E. Combs, Visalia, Calif., lawyer. A. B., LL. B., University of California; private practice of law; 18 years chief counsel, California Legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities; Phi Delta Phi.

J. Stewart Newlin, Wellington, Kans. University of Kansas; editor and publisher of the Wellington Daily News; executive secretary to the Governor of Kansas; public relations director, Kansas Highway Commission, and public relations director, Eisenhowerfor-President headquarters.

Harry B. Reese, Chicago, Ill., lawyer, educator. B. A., Ohio State University; LL. B., Harvard University; assistant professor of law and associate director of legal research, Ohio State University College of Law; associate professor of law at Northwestern University Law School.

Lawrence G. Blochman, New York City, writer. B. A., University of California; 10 years newspaper experience; served as chief of Radio Program Bureau, OWI, during World War II; served as Deputy Director of OWI Operations in France; author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction.

Professional Staff

Research

Floyd D. Birdzell, Ph. B., B. S. L.-J. D., University of North Dakota; J. Robert Brown, A. B., M. A., Woodstock College; Maurice D. Contor, B A., Vanderbilt University, LL. B., Harvard Law School; Morris M. Cramer, A. B., Pennsylvania State University; Jeanne F. Davies, B. S., Madison College; Phoebe H. Everett, B. A., M. A., Syracuse University; Leland G. Gardner, A. M., LL. B., University of Michigan; Edward W. Hassell, B. S., American University; Gilbert O. Hourtoule, A. B., Montclair State Teachers College, M. A., Stanford University, Ph. D., Pennsylvania State University; Irwin Langenbacher, A. B., Central College of Missouri, A. B. B. A., University of Georgia, J. D. Emory University; Samuel J. L'Hommedieu, Jr., B. S., University of Maryland, LL. B., LL. M., George Washington University; Mary C. Martin, LL. B., Lincoln College of Law; William T. McDermott, B. S., University of New Hampshire, Ed. M., Boston University, LL. B., George Washington University; Frank J. McGee, B. S., LL. B., Boston College, LL. M., Georgetown University; Theodore C. Merlo, A. B., Lafayette College, LL. B., Georgetown Law School; Leroy S. Merrifield, A. B., LL. B., University of Minnesota, S. J. D., Harvard University; Francis G. Naughten, B. S., LL. B., Georgetown University; James C. Pressey, A. B., Dartmouth College, LL. B., Harvard Law School; Jack M. Reid, B. Sc., University of Southern California, LL. B., Georgetown University; Arthur A. Sharp, United States Government Printing Office.