        |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION |
||
| Creator: | Graven, David L., 1929-1991. | |
| Title: | David L. Graven papers. | |
| Date: | 1936-1992 (bulk 1949-1991). | |
| Abstract: | Personal and professional papers of David L. Graven, a Freeborn County assistant attorney (1957-1963), University of Minnesota law professor (1963-1974), and Minneapolis trial lawyer (1974-1991), documenting his speaking, civic, and political activities. | |
| Quantity: | 8.0 cu. ft. (8 boxes and 1 oversize folder, unboxed). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. | |
Return to the Table of Contents
BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID L. GRAVEN
David L. Graven was born on July 22, 1929 in Minneapolis. Graven grew up in Greene County, Iowa, the son of a federal district judge, and graduated from St. Olaf College in 1950. After receiving his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1953, Graven worked for the law firm of Dorsey & Associates for seven months, then served in Germany as a first lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps until 1957. Upon return to the United States, Graven formed a partnership with Russell Olson in Albert Lea, Minnesota and also served under Olson as an assistant attorney to Freeborn County.
In 1964 Graven accepted a post as a professor in the University of Minnesota's law school. He taught in the school until 1974 when he went back into private practice with James S. Holmes and Robert E. Kircher. This practice was later chartered under the name of Holmes and Graven. Graven remained with this firm until his death in 1991.
Active in state politics, Graven attended the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Democratic National Conventions as a Minnesota delegate and served as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party State Executive Committee from 1964 through 1970. Twice unsuccessful in his own campaign bids: Graven ran for a seat in the U.S. House in 1962 but lost to Al Quie and ran for the democratic nomination for governor in 1970 but lost that bid to Wendell Anderson. Graven was one of the founding members of Minnesotans for Durenberger, which helped elect Durenberger to the U.S. Senate in 1982 under an independent ticket.
Active in community dialogues regarding policy, particularly in the areas of public affairs, transportation, and health care, Graven served on a number of councils, coalitions, and committees. His participation as a voluntary member or appointed commissioner have included such organizations as the Albert Lea City Planning Commission (1958-1961), the Minnesota Uniform Law Commission (1958-1961), the Citizens League (1963-1970 and 1974-1991), the Hennepin County Legal Aid Society (1967-1975), the Metropolitan Council (1971-1974), the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure (1971-1991), the Metropolitan Transportation Advisory Board (1977-1984), the Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs (1983-1984), the Community Advisory Council of the University of Minnesota's Center for Biomedical Ethics (1987-1991), and the University's Health Sciences Advisory Committee (1989).
Biographical information was taken from the collection.
Return to the Table of Contents
SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
The papers document the personal, professional, civic, and political life of David L. Graven, an attorney who specialized in real estate, criminal, and public affairs law. Included are résumés and vitae, correspondence, minutes and reports, interviews, legal briefs and writings, speeches, seminar files, political campaign and convention files, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings, and video recordings. The correspondence series and files originating from Graven's participation on various councils, coalitions, and committees comprise the bulk of the collection. Graven's involvement with the Citizens League, the Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs, and the Historical Society of the U.S. Courts in the Eighth District are well represented. Particularly well documented are Graven's activities in the areas of bioethics and open meeting law.
Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents
RELATED MATERIALS |
||
| Two law texts, authored by Graven, regarding Minnesota criminal procedure are available in the Minnesota Historical Society book collection. The first of these, published in 1966, is titled Minnesota & Federal Criminal Law and Procedure. The second, titled Comparative Analysis of American Bar Association Standards for Criminal Justice with Minnesota Laws, Rules and Legal Practice, was published in 1971. | ||
| Materials originating from Graven's tenure as chairman of the Transportation Advisory Board may be referenced within the records of the Twin Cities Transportation Planning Program filed under the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Area in the Minnesota State Archives. | ||
Return to the Table of Contents
INDEX TERMS |
||
| This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. | ||
| Topics: | ||
| Bioethics -- Minnesota. | ||
| Electioneering -- Minnesota. | ||
| Health care reform -- Minnesota. | ||
| Lawyers in politics -- Minnesota. | ||
| Medical care, Cost of -- Minnesota. | ||
| Medical technology -- Minnesota. | ||
| Practice of law -- Minnesota. | ||
| Public meetings -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota. | ||
| Public policy (law) -- Minnesota. | ||
| Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Minnesota. | ||
| Places: | ||
| Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1951- . | ||
| Person: | ||
| Durenberger, David. | ||
| Organizations: | ||
| Center for New Democratic Processes. Citizens Panel on Transplants and Public Policy. | ||
| Citizens League (Minneapolis, Minnesota). | ||
| Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. | ||
| Historical Society of the United States Courts in the Eighth Circuit. District of Minnesota Branch. | ||
| Holmes & Graven. | ||
| Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Area. | ||
| Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs. Task Force on the Affordability of New Technology and Highly Specialized Care: Life at Any Price? | ||
| Minnesotans for Durenberger. | ||
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations. Task Force on Alternative Delivery Systems. | ||
| University of Minnesota. | ||
| Types of Documentation: | ||
| Interviews. | ||
| Speeches. | ||
| Occupations: | ||
| Educators--Minnesota. | ||
| Lawyers--Minnesota. | ||
| Titles: | ||
| Commitment to focus. | ||
| Issues of the '80s, enlarging our capacity to adapt. | ||
| The Price of life. | ||
Return to the Table of Contents
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION |
||
| Restrictions: | ||
| Access: Access to records less than 15 years old requires written permission. News releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, commonly available publications, and like material of a public nature are excluded from this restriction. Restricted materials are noted on the container list. Researchers wishing to see restricted materials must apply in writing for permission. Please consult the reference staff for more information. | ||
| Use and Reproduction: Quotation or publication of anything in or based on records less than 15 years old requires written permission. News releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, commonly available publications, and like material of a public nature are excluded from this restriction. For further information concerning copyright status and/or permission to publish, please contact the reference staff. | ||
| Preferred Citation: | ||
| [Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. David L. Graven Papers. Minnesota Historical Society. | ||
| See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples. | ||
| Accession Information: | ||
| Accession number: 15,137 | ||
| Processing Information: | ||
| Processed by: Monica Manny, April 1997 | ||
| PALS ID number: 09-00042503 | ||
Return to the Table of Contents