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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.
| Interviewee: | Craft, Edward O. |
| Call number: | 78-016 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | March 25, 1978 |
| Physical Description: | 52 pp.; 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 |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Anderson, Terry H. |
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. He 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.
House Ways and Means Committee
Indiana University
Indiana University School of Law
United States House of Representatives
Carter, James Earl, Jr.
Gavit, Bernard Campbell
Halleck, Charles A.
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Kahn, Isadore
Nixon, Richard Milhous
Perley, Allen
Bloomington, Indiana
Kingsbury, Indiana
La Porte County, Indiana
Washington, DC
attorney
Marshall Plan
World War II
farming practices
law school
legislative drafting
tax legislation