Autobiography: Edward O. Craft, 1978
A Guide to the Collection of Oral History Interviews at
Indiana University Bloomington
Finding aid prepared by the staff of the Center for the Study of History and Memory with a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities Division of
Preservation and Access, 2000-2002
Overview of the Collection
Repository
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Indiana University
Franklin Hall 0030B
601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812/855-2856
Fax: 812/855-0002
E-mail: ohrc@indiana.edu
http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/cdrp/oral-history/
Creator
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
TitleAutobiography: Edward O. Craft, 1978
Project No.
ohrc005
Interviews
1 interview.
Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials.
Physical Location
Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030B. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University
Archives.
Contact archives@indiana.edu for more information. For other locations housing the interviews
from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office.
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Edward O. Craft, former senior legislative counsel to the House of
Representatives, recounts his early life, education, work in Washington, DC,
and his retirement into private practice as a partner in the law firm of
Wickham, Craft & Cihlar.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains one interview, lasting 120 minutes. The interview consists of one reel and a typed transcript, as
well as collateral materials.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of
History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of
twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
Usage Restrictions
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open
to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies
are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any
restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier
(pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript
(deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for
patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that
interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview.
Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be
used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession
number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
Preferred Citation
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last
name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University,
Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape
number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].
Interview List
Interviewee
Craft, Edward O.
March 25,
1978
Call Number
78-016
Physical Description
52 pages; 1 reel, 1 7/8 ips, 120 minutes; no index;
interviewee's business card; photograph of interviewee; newspaper article about
interviewee;
Congressional Directory with
interviewee listed;
House Congressional Record
with tribute to interviewee
Interviewer
Anderson, Terry H.
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Access Status
Open
Scope and Content Note
Edward O. Craft discusses the function and structure of the legislative counsel and some of
the projects he worked on while in Washington, DC, including the massive tax
restructuring of 1954. He also mentions some of the people he worked with in
Washington, DC, including presidents Nixon and Carter. The interview ends with
Craft discussing his resignation from the legislative counsel and his
retirement into private practice as a partner in the law firm of Wickham, Craft
& Cihlar, based in Washington, DC.
Edward O. Craft, born in La Porte County, Indiana, on November
13, 1916 and died in Bloomington, Indiana, on March 10, 1999, speaks of his
life history. He was born on a farm in La Porte County, Kingsbury, Indiana and
attended school in La Porte. In the late nineteen thirties Craft attended
Indiana University in Bloomington and graduated from the Indiana University
School of Law. He first worked in Evansville with a law firm, but was quickly
recommended for a post with the legislative counsel to the House of
Representatives. After moving to Washington, DC, he moved through the ranks in
the counsel's office to become the senior legislative counsel from 1962 - 1972.
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Keywords
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Corporation Names
- House Ways and Means Committee
- Indiana University
- Indiana University School of Law
- United States House of Representatives
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Personal Names
- Carter, James Earl, Jr.
- Gavit, Bernard Campbell
- Halleck, Charles A.
- Johnson, Lyndon Baines
- Kahn, Isadore
- Nixon, Richard Milhous
- Perley, Allen
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Geographic Names
- Bloomington, Indiana
- Kingsbury, Indiana
- La Porte County, Indiana
- Washington, DC
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Subjects
- farming practices
- law school
- legislative drafting
- Marshall Plan
- tax legislation
- World War II
