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Autobiography: Edward O. Craft, 1978

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.

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.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • House Ways and Means Committee
    • Indiana University
    • Indiana University School of Law
    • United States House of Representatives
    • Occupation Names
    • attorney
    • Personal Names
    • Carter, James Earl, Jr.
    • Gavit, Bernard Campbell
    • Halleck, Charles A.
    • Johnson, Lyndon Baines
    • Kahn, Isadore
    • Nixon, Richard Milhous
    • Perley, Allen
    • Place Names
    • Bloomington, Indiana
    • Kingsbury, Indiana
    • La Porte County, Indiana
    • Washington, DC
    • Subjects
    • farming practices
    • law school
    • legislative drafting
    • Marshall Plan
    • tax legislation
    • World War II