Stohl, Ralph N. Papers

Director of Administration, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1947-1953; Director, Office of Domestic Security Programs, Department of Defense, 1953-1955

The Ralph N. Stohl Papers contain correspondence, organizational charts, graphs, memoranda, and handwritten notes relating to Stohl’s work in the Department of Defense.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 10 linear inches (about 1,600 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. Government all copyrights which she owned in the unpublished materials in this collection, and in any unpublished writings of Ralph N. Stohl that may be among other donated collections of papers at any archival depository administered by the U.S. Government. Furthermore, documents created by officials of the U.S. Government officials in the course of their duties are in the public domain.
Processed by: Dennis E. Bilger (1979).
Updated by: Joel Burzinski (2010) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1914 (Jan.26)		Born, Salt Lake City Utah
1933-1935		Official, Farm Credit Administration, Salt Lake City, Utah
1934		A.B. Degree, University of Utah
1935-1940		Official, Soil Conservation Service
1939		J. S. Degree, George Washington University
1940-1941		Fiscal Management Analyst, Office of the Secretary of Agriculture
1941-1942		Director of Administration, Office of Civilian Defense
1942-1944		Director of Field Administration, War Production Board
1944-1946		Lieutenant, U. S. Naval Reserve
1946-1947		Director of Civilian Manpower Distribution, Office of the Secretary of the Navy
1947-1953		Director of Administration, Office of the Secretary of Defense
1953-1955		Director, Office of Domestic Security Programs, Department of Defense
1956		Consultant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1956-1957		Assistant to the Executive Vice President, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
1961-1971		Vice President, Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (University of Texas at Dallas)
1971-1972		Executive Director, Ferroalloys Association
1972-1973		Director, Executive Secretariat, Health Service and Mental Health Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
1978 (Dec. 27)		Died, McLean, Virginia

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The Papers of Ralph N. Stohl mostly date from his service as Director of Administration in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as Director of the Office of Domestic Security Programs in the Department of Defense, from 1947 to 1955. The papers include correspondence, organizational charts, graphs, memoranda, handwritten notes, reports, and printed materials.

The collection is organized in one series, a Subject File. The majority of the papers in the collection focus on the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Stohl’s role as Director of Administration. The papers also include information on the National Security Act of 1947. Among the papers relating to this subject are memoranda from meetings about the National Security Act, background reports, charts displaying the structure of the Department of Defense, and papers relating to the passage of the act itself.

Much of the collection consists of memoranda, charts, correspondence, handwritten notes, and manuals concerning the organization and administration of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of Defense. The collection contains little information about Stohl’s service as Director of the Office of Domestic Security Programs during the Eisenhower administration.

Other manuscript collections at the Truman Library relating to the Defense Department include the papers of John H. Ohly and the papers of A. Robert Ginsburgh.

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