Jamail Center for Legal Research
Tarlton Law Library

Justice Tom C. Clark

• Extent: 480 linear ft. (833 boxes, 15 scrapbooks, @1,000 photographs, @100 oversize items).
• Clark, Tom C. (Thomas Campbell), 1899-1977. Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1949-1967.
• Scope and Content: Case files, bench memoranda docket sheets, briefs, petitions, transcripts, and slip opinions make up virtually a complete record of Clark¹s activities on the U.S. Supreme Court, describing in detail the internal workings of the Vinson and Warren Courts. Additional case records document his later service on the federal appeals bench. His activities in the American Bar Association and civic organizations are documented through correspondence, speeches, literary productions, scrapbooks, political cartoons, photographs, phonograph records, films, and artifacts. A small portion of the collection comes from the time before Clark joined the Supreme Court. The Clark papers for the years 1945-1949, during which Clark served as U.S. Attorney General, are at the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.
• Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is available online. A print version is available in the Tarlton Law Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
• Restrictions: Permission required for photocopying or reproduction. Phonograph records not available for use due to fragile condition.

The Papers of Tom C. Clark (Online Resource formerly hosted by UTopia)

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