Tom higgins barbara corcoran
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Collection inventory
Overview of the Collection | |
| Creator: | Higgins, Tom, 1922-2000. |
| Title: | Thomas Higgins, Jr. Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1957-1971 |
| Quantity: | 1 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Original cartoons, sketches, proofs, clippings and correspondence. |
| Language: | Majority in English, a few items in Spanish |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
Thomas J. Higgins, Jr. (1922-2000) was an American cartoonist. Over the course of his long career, his cartoons appeared in many major magazines and trade journals.
Higgins was born in Far Rockaway, New York. During World War II, while stationed in Japan shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb, his lungs were so badly damaged that Higgins required a two year convalescence in a military hospital. Upon his return to New York after the War, he enrolled in the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and was
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Thomas Higgins was the founding chief executive and is a director at Prosetta Biosciences, Inc. He served as the president and CEO from 2003-2008. Prior to that, he was president and chief operating officer of Business for Social Responsibility. BSR is the leading global resource for businesses seeking to improve their performance in areas of corporate social responsibility.
Higgins served in the administration of President Carter, beginning as a senior executive at HEW, where he was Director of Region VII, and at HHS, as Associate Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. His service culminated as a presidential appointee on the White House Senior Staff, where he served as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet. He was elected to the Iowa General Assembly in 1972, where he served three terms and was chairman of the Human Resources Committee, before resigning to serve in the Carter administration. In the early 1980s he was the head of the Health and Social Services Department in Portland, Oregon.
In 1983, he began his private sector career as founding Publisher and President
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Lieutenant Thomas Higgins
Occasionally private papers of individuals who served in the Napoleonic Wars will be found. These papers often are passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom and are destined to never be published. A set of papers were brought to our attention by Brian Forth. These papers include the original commission of Lieutenant Thomas Higgins into the British Army, a letter to his sister written in 1804 describing the French Invasion scare, and a miniature portrait of him.
Lieutenant Thomas Higgins |
The documents are of interest for several reasons:
1. The commission is in excellent condition and allows us to see what one looks like.
2. The letter, although not filled with tales of battles or campaigns, does provide insight on the language used by soldiers when writing to their family, the punctuation and grammar of the time, and the how the British were responding to Napoleon's looming invasion.
The Commission
George the Third by the Grace of God, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irela
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