1959
President of California State University, Long Beach, 1970-1988; Member, U.S. House of Representatives from California, 1993-2003
The papers of Stephen Horn include summaries of remarks and transcripts of interviews with various individuals, including several elected officials.
Size: 2.5 linear inches (about 70 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with this collection. Documents created by U.S. Government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents in this collection presumably belongs to the creators of those documents or their heirs.
Processed by: Haley Petersen (2019) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
| 1931 (May 31) | Born John Stephen Horn, San Juan Bautista, California | |
| 1953 | B.A., Stanford University | |
| 1954-1962 | Served in U.S. Army Reserve | |
| 1955 | M.P.A., Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration | |
| 1958 | Ph.D., Stanford University | |
| 1959 | Administrative Assistant to Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell | |
| 1960-1966 | Legislative Assistant to Senator Thomas Kuchel | |
| 1966 | Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution | |
| 1969-1980 | Vice Chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission | |
| 1970-1988 | President, California State University, Long Beach | |
| 1972-1988 | Member, National Institute of Corrections | |
| 1993-2003 | Member, U.S. House of Representatives from California | |
| 2011 (February 17) | Died, Long Beach, California |
The papers of Stephen Horn include summaries of remarks and transcripts of interviews with various individuals, including several elected officials, all dating from 1959. The collection is arranged in a single Subject File.
The collection includes summaries or transcripts of interviews with a number of prominent individuals. The topics vary from foreign policy to the duties of the President. The persons interviewed include former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Rep. John McCormack, Senator William Proxmire, the journalists Joseph Alsop and James Reston, and representatives of the United Steelworkers of America.
The Horn Papers were originally open for research as part of the Miscellaneous Historical Documents Collection (MHDC 216-227). The Truman Library has the papers of three persons whose interviews appear in the Horn Papers: Dean Acheson, Leon Keyserling, and John Steelman.
| Container Nos. | Series | |
| 1 | SUBJECT FILE, 1959 Summaries of remarks and interview transcripts. Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
Box 1
- Acheson, Dean
- Alsop, Joseph
- Bolling, Richard
- Brademas, John
- Brownlow, Louis
- Keyserling, Leon
- Marcy, Carl
- McCormack, John
- Proxmire, William
- Reston, James
- Steelman, John
- United Steelworkers of America