Marshall E. Hanley papers
MSS.056
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Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
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Muncie, Indiana, 47306
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Marshall E. Hanley papers MSS.056
Table of Contents
Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3
Biographical Note.......................................................................................................................................... 4
Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 4
Arrangement...................................................................................................................................................5
Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................5
Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................6
Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 8
Series 1: Yearbooks, 1937, 1967, 1969.................................................................................................. 8
Series 2: Legal Documents, 1957-1968.................................................................................................. 8
Series 3: Scrapbooks, 1965-1966............................................................................................................ 9
Series 4: Marshall E. Hanley photographs, circa 1960s......................................................................... 9
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Summary Information
Repository
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Creator
Defur, Voran, and Hanley. (Firm)
Creator
Hanley, Marshall E., 1920-1981
Title
Marshall E. Hanley papers
Date
1937-1969
Extent
0.3 Cubic feet 1 box and 1 folder
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Marshall E. Hanley Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries
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Biographical Note
Marshall E. Hanley was a Muncie native, the son of Frank A. and Emily Shirk Hanley. He graduated from
Burris High School in 1937, attended the University of Chicago in 1937 and 1939, and graduated from
Indiana University in 1942. He attended Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs
in the summer of 1941 and received a master’s degree from Ball State University. Hanley was also a
graduate of Harvard Law School and after graduation served as a clerk to Judge Sherman W. Minton,
a Hoosier who was a judge on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in Chicago and later
a Supreme Court Justice. A prominent Democrat throughout his adult life, Hanley was a leader in the
Indiana State Democratic Party, serving as president of Young Democrats at local, regional and state
levels.
During the Truman administration, Hanley was appointed assistant United States district attorney for
the Southern District of Indiana, becoming district attorney in 1950. Hanley had practiced law with
Allan G. Weir in the firm Hanley and Weir in the late 1940s, but upon returning to Muncie after his
term as U.S. district attorney, joined the law firm of Bracken, Gray, DeFur, and Voran. He served as city
attorney during the administration of J. Arthur Tuhey (1956-1963) and for several weeks as city controller
following the death of Stanley Terhune in 1963. He also served as city attorney from 1948 to 1950 for
Mayor Lester E. Holloway (1948- 1952). In 1957, Hanley ran an unsuccessful campaign for nomination
to the U.S. Senate in 1957, defeated in the primary by Senator Vance Hartke of Evansville. Hanley was
the Eastern Indiana campaign director for the nomination and election of John F. Kennedy and when
Kennedy made a campaign appearance in Muncie, he stayed at the Hanley home in Westwood.
Hanley served on many local boards and committees, and held memberships in many civic organizations.
He also served as director of both the Ball State University Foundation and the Muncie Rotary Club. He
was appointed a trustee of the Fort Wayne State School Foundation by Governors Schricker and Welsh,
and served as a deacon and elder of the First United Presbyterian Church. He also taught business law at
Ball State until he was forced to step aside for health reasons in 1980.
Hanley was married to the former Elaine Bowers of Anderson, with whom he had three children: Carol
Lee, Marshall Sherman and Mark Anthony. Marshall Hanley died May 23, 1981.
Scope and Contents
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Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
Series 1: Yearbooks, 1937-1969
Series 2: Legal Documents, 1957-1968
Series 3: Scrapbooks, 1965-1966
Series 4: Marshall E. Hanley photographs, circa 1960s
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Archives and Special Collections, Ball State
University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to
Archives and Special Collections.
Custodial History
The Marshall E. Hanley Papers were received by Archives and Special Collections as a donation from
Mrs. Marshall Hanley on 1982/01/21.
Accruals
No further additions are expected.
Processing Information
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Marshall E. Hanley papers MSS.056
Collection processing completed 1994/02/18 by M. Sears. Finding aid created 1994/02/18 by M. Sears.
EAD finding aid completed 2009/08/06 by Maren L. Read. EAD finding aid revised 2013/09/10 by Leslie
Nellis.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
• Ball Brothers Company, Inc. (Muncie, Ind.).
• Borg-Warner Corporation. Warner Gear Division.
• Burris Laboratory School. (Muncie, Ind.)
Family Name(s)
• Ball family
Genre(s)
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Documents
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Yearbooks
Geographic Name(s)
• Muncie (Ind.)
Personal Name(s)
• Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
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Subject(s)
• Legal briefs
• Stoeckel Archives of Local History
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Series 1: Yearbooks, 1937, 1967, 1969
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Yearbooks, 1937, 1967, 1969
The Oracle, 1937
1967
1969
Box
Folder
1
1
1
2
1
3
Box
Folder
1
4
1
5
1
6
1
7
Series 2: Legal Documents, 1957-1968
Allen County Department of Public Welfare, vs. Ball Memorial Hospital
Association, et al, circa 1968
Ball Brothers Company, Inc., vs. Review Board of the Indiana
Employment Security Division, et al, 1959 (No. 19410, Appellate Court of
Indiana)
Ball Brothers Company, Inc., vs. Review Board of the Indiana
Employment Security Division (et al), circa 1962 (No. 19740, Appellate
Court of Indiana)
Ball Memorial Hospital vs. John Freeman, 1957-1964
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Series 3: Scrapbooks, 1965-1966
Clyde R. Gray, Jr., Clyde R. Gray, Sr., Mary Gray, vs. Oliver F.
1
8
1
9
1
10
1
11
1
12
Box
Folder
1
13
Box
1 (PSC)
Folder
PSC 014
Thornburg, Blanch Thornburg, 1959
Leola Wade Wilson vs. Estate of W. L. Kings, 1959
Otto J. Schwartz, vs. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security
Division and Warner Gear Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, 1963
Robert Carlton Hurd, vs. (Executors and Trustees under Last Will and
Testament of E. Arthur Ball), 1956-1957
State of Indiana on Relation of Esther Spangler, vs. Board of Trustees of
the Firemen’s Pension Fund of the City of Muncie, circa 1960
Series 3: Scrapbooks, 1965-1966
Scrapbooks (photocopies), 1965-1966
PSC.014 Series 4: Marshall E. Hanley photographs, circa 1960s
Senator John F. Kennedy visiting Muncie, at Courthouse, 1960
Marshall Hanley, as a young man, at political functions, undated
Marshall Hanley being presented the book Kennedy, by Theodore C. Sorensen, 1965
Marshall Hanley with John F. Kennedy, circa 1960
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Series 4: Marshall E. Hanley photographs, circa 1960s
Marshall Hanley and Vance Hartke, undated
Marshall Hanley, undated
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