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Louis J. Hector papers
Fecha(s)
- circa 1930s-2000 (Creación)
Extensión
29.00 linear feet (29 boxes)
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Historia biográfica
Elected to National Airlines' board of directors in 1974, Louis J. Hector (1915-2005) had distinguished himself as an attorney in private practice and with the Federal government. He was a partner in the Miami law firm of Steel, Hector & Davis. His career in public service included three years as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, from 1957 to 1959. He was also involved for almost 20 years with various aviation and administrative law activities for the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. State Department, the American Bar Association, and the Brookings Institution.
Mr. Hector was a member of the Board of Directors of Southeast Banking Corp and also served as chairman of the bank's executive committee for several years. He was a past director of the First National Bank of Miami and of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. He was an emeritus trustee of the University of Miami, a member of the Rockefeller University Council, and a Smith College trustee. He also served on the Dade County (Fla.) Council of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Hector was a member of the Florida Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the Dade County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was the director of the Center For Administrative Justice and a member of the American Judicature Society.
During World War II, he was an assistant to Under-Secretary Edward Stettinius in the U.S. State Department, a Lend-Lease Administration attorney, and served with the Office of Strategic Services in the Southeast Asia and China Commands.
Born in Fort Lauderdale, Mr. Hector received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and Williams Colleges and his LL.B from the Yale Law School. He also attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
The collection contains the personal papers of Louis J. Hector, in the form of clippings, invitations, letters, memorandum, notebooks, photographs, and reports. Prominently represented are files pertaining to the University of Miami, the Southeast Banking Corporation, Pan American World Airways, Inc., the Civil Aeronautics Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery, the National Humanities Center, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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This collection is open for research.
Acceso físico
This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.
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Louis J. Hector Papers Finding Aid © 2009 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Idiomas del material
- inglés
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- latín
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Nota del archivista
Finding aid updated by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 07-29-24.
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- Pan American World Airways, Inc. (Materia)