NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1939 › Regional offices — location, territory and personnel
Regional offices — location, territory and personnel
Stitched from pp. 20–23.
| Region 1, Old South Building, Boston, Mass. | Maine; New Hampshire; Vermont; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Windham, New London, Tolland, Hartford, and Middlesex Counties in Connecticut. | A. Howard Myers, director; Edward Schneider, attorney. |
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| Region 2, 120 Wall St., New York, N. Y. | Litchfield, New Haven, and Fairfield Counties in Connecticut; Clinton, Essex, Washington, Warren, Saratoga, Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Bronx, New York, Richmond, Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties in New York State; Sussex, Passaic, Bergen, Warren, Morris, Essex, Hudson, Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Monmouth, and Hunterdon Counties in New Jersey. | Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, director; Alan Perl, attorney. |
| Region 3, Federal Building, Buffalo, N. Y. | New York State, except for those counties included in the second region. | Henry J. Winters, director; Edward Flaherty, attorney. |
| Region 4, Bankers Securities Building, Philadelphia, Pa. | Mercer, Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May Counties in New Jersey; New Castle County in Delaware; all of Pennsylvania lying east of the eastern borders of Potter, Clinton, Centre, Mifflin, Huntingdon, and Franklin Counties. | Bennet F. Schauffler, director; Samuel G. Zack, attorney. |
| Region 5, 1109 Standard Oil Building, Baltimore, Md. | Kent and Sussex Counties in Delaware; Maryland; District of Columbia; Virginia; North Carolina; Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Mineral, Hampshire, Grant, Hardy, and Pendleton Counties in West Virginia. | William M. Aicher, director; Lester Levin, attorney. |
| Region 6, 2107 Clark Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. | All of Pennsylvania lying west of the eastern borders of Potter, Clinton, Centre, Mifflin, Huntingdon, and Franklin Counties; Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Monongalia, Marion, Harrison, Taylor, Doddridge, Preston, Lewis, Barbour, Tucker, Upshur, Randolph, Webster, and Pocahontas Counties in West Virginia. | Charles T. Douds, director; Robert H. Kleeb, attorney. |
| Region 7, National Bank Building, Detroit, Mich. | Michigan, exclusive of Gogebic, Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga, Iron, Dickinson, Marquette, Menominee, Delta, Alger, Schoolcraft, Luce, Chippewa, and Mackinac Counties. | Frank H. Bowen, director; Harold Cranefield, attorney. |
| Region 8, 820 N. B. C. Building, Cleveland, Ohio. | Ohio, north of the southern borders of Darke, Miami, Champaign, Union, Delaware, Licking, Muskingum, Guernsey, and Belmont Counties. | Oscar S. Smith, director; Harry L. Lodish, attorney. |
| Region 9, 445 United States Post Office and Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio. | West Virginia, west of the western borders of Wetzel, Doddridge, Lewis, and Webster Counties and southwest of the southern and western borders of Pocahontas County; Ohio, south of the southern borders of Darke, Miami, Champaign, Union, Delaware, Licking, Muskingum, Guernsey, and Belmont Counties; Kentucky, east of the western borders of Hardin, Hart, Barren, and Monroe Counties. | Philip G. Phillips, director; Oscar Grossman, attorney. |
| Region 10, Ten Forsyth Street Building, Atlanta, Ga. | South Carolina; Tennessee; Georgia; Alabama, north of the northern borders of Choctaw, Marengo, Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery, Macon, and Russell Counties. | Charles N. Feidelson, director; Warren Woods, attorney. |
| Region 11, Architects Building, Indianapolis, Ind. | Indiana, except for Lake, Porter, La Porte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, and De Kalb Counties; Kentucky west of the western borders of Hardin, Hart, Barren, and Monroe Counties. | Robert H. Cowdrill, director; Arthur Donovan, attorney. |
| Region 12, Madison Building, Milwaukee, Wis. | Wisconsin; Gogebic, Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga, Iron, Dickinson, Marquette, Menominee, Delta, Alger, Schoolcraft, Luce, Chippewa, and Mackinac Counties in Michigan. | John G. Shott, director; Frederick P. Mett, attorney. |
| Region 13, 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ill. | Lake, Porter, La Porte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, and De Kalb Counties in Indiana; Illinois, north of the northern borders of Edgar, Coles, Shelby, Christian, Montgomery, Macoupin, Greene, Scott, Brown, and Adams Counties. | G. L. Patterson, director; Isaiah S. Dorfman, attorney. |
| Region 14, United States Court and Customhouse, St. Louis, Mo. | Illinois, south of the northern borders of Edgar, Coles, Shelby, Christian, Montgomery, Macoupin, Greene, Scott, Brown, and Adams Counties; Missouri, east of the western borders of Scotland, Knox, Shelby, Monroe, Audrain, Callaway, Osage, Maries, Phelps, Dent, Shannon, and Oregon Counties. | Miss Dorothea de Schweinitz, director; Thurlow Smoot, attorney. |
| Region 15, Hibernia Bank Building, New Orleans, La. | Louisiana; Arkansas; Mississippi; Florida; Alabama, south of the northern borders of Choctaw, Marengo, Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery, Macon, and Russell Counties. | Charles H. Logan, director; Samuel Lang, attorney. |
| Region 16, Federal Court Building, Fort Worth, Tex. | Oklahoma, Texas. | Edwin A. Elliott, director; Elmer P. Davis, attorney. |
| Region 17, 245 United States Courthouse and Post Office, Kansas City, Mo. | Missouri, west of the western borders of Scotland, Knox, Shelby, Monroe, Audrain, Callaway, Osage, Maries, Phelps, Dent, Shannon, and Oregon Counties; Kansas; Nebraska. | Hugh E. Sperry, director; Joseph A. Hoskins, attorney. |
| Region 18, New Post Office Building, Minneapolis, Minn. | Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa. | Robert J. Wiener, director; Lee Loevinger, attorney. |
| Region 19, Dexter-Horton Building, Seattle, Wash. | Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Territory of Alaska. | Elwyn J. Eagen, director; Thomas Graham, attorney. |
| Region 20, 1095 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. | Nevada; California, north of the southern borders of Monterey, Kings, Tulare, and Inyo Counties; Territory of Hawaii. | Mrs. Alice M. Rosseter, director; John McTernan, attorney. |
| Region 21, 808 United States Post Office and Courthouse, Los Angeles, Calif. | Arizona; California, south of the southern borders of Monterey, Kings, Tulare, and Inyo Counties. | Walter P. Spreckels, director; William R. Walsh, attorney. |
| Region 22, Central Savings Bank Building, Denver, Colo. | Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico. | Aaron W. Warner, director; Paul Kuelthau, attorney. |
Reader’s notes
p. 20. This is not a statistical table: it is the textual directory "D. REGIONAL OFFICES—LOCATION, TERRITORY, AND DIRECTING PERSONNEL" (page 13 of the 1939 report), set in three untitled columns — office/address (stub), territory, and directing personnel. It contains no numeric data. No column headings are printed over the columns (the all-caps line above is the section caption, which has been omitted per instructions), so header_rows is empty. There are no column rules; the three columns are set off by whitespace only, but the alignment is unambiguous. The listing is cut off by the page: it begins at Region 1 and ends mid-list at Region 5; Regions 6 and beyond continue on the following page. Each entry's wrapped lines (and end-of-line hyphenations such as "Build-ing", "Massachu-setts", "Rock-land", "Securi-ties", "direc-tor", "at-torney") have been joined into single cells. The scan shows a stray speck inside "Richmond" in the Region 2 territory cell (printed as "Richm'ond"); it is transcribed as "Richmond". Scattered specks/dots elsewhere in the white space are scan artifacts, not printed text.
p. 21. This is a directory-style table (regional offices) rather than a numeric table; it has three printed columns: office/address (stub), territory, and personnel. No column headings appear on this page because it continues the table from the preceding page, so header_rows is empty. The table also continues past this page: the crop ends after Region 10, with blank space below. Each entry's text is heavily hyphenated and letter-spaced in the original (e.g. "C o u n tie s", "R a n d ol p h", "M a r e n g o"); the line breaks and end-of-line hyphens have been joined per instructions. In the Region 10 territory cell, the mark printed after "Choctaw" looks like a period in the scan but the list plainly continues ("Marengo, Dallas, Lowndes, ..."), so it is transcribed as a comma. In the Region 6 territory cell "Monongalia" is printed with a stray apostrophe-like mark ("M'onongalia") and "and Franklin" carries a stray raised tick after "and"; both are scan artifacts, not footnote markers, and are omitted. The running head ("14 FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD") is excluded.
p. 22. This crop is not a numeric statistical table but a three-column directory of NLRB regional offices (office/address | territory covered | director and attorney), set without column rules. No column headings are printed on this page — the list continues from the preceding page (it begins mid-sequence at Region 11 and ends at Region 16, so the list is cut off at both ends by the page break, not by the crop). The running head "II. THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD" and page number 15 were excluded as instructed. End-of-line hyphens were repaired throughout (e.g. "Custom- house" -> "Customhouse", "School- craft" -> "Schoolcraft", "Mis- sissippi" -> "Mississippi", "Schwei- nitz" -> "Schweinitz", "Macou- pin" -> "Macoupin"). Doubtful punctuation: in the Region 11 territory cell the mark after "Indiana" reads like a period in the scan ("Indiana. except for Lake,"); context indicates a comma and it is transcribed as a comma. The page carries numerous stray ink specks and broken-type marks in the margins and between columns (including a small mark near the middle of the Region 11 block and after "Counties." in the Region 13 territory cell); none appear to be footnote markers and none were transcribed. No footnotes are printed on this page.
p. 23. This crop is not a numeric statistical table but a three-column directory of NLRB regional offices: column 0 = office number and address (stub), column 1 = territory covered, column 2 = regional director and attorney. No column headings are printed on this image — the listing continues from an earlier page (it begins at Region 17), so header_rows is empty. There are no column rules; the three columns are set off only by white space, but the column boundaries are unambiguous. Words broken by end-of-line hyphens were rejoined (Scot-land, Cal-laway, Minne-apolis, Ida-ho, Tu-lare, Ange-les, McTer-nan, Wyo-ming, direc-tor, di-rector, at-torney); the hyphen in "Dexter-Horton" is printed mid-line and is retained. Scanning speckle makes a few letters faint: "Monterey" in the Region 21 territory cell prints as something closer to "Montercy", "Wyoming" in the Region 22 territory cell is letter-spaced and its continuation "ming" has a damaged first letter, and the leading "Minne-" line of the Region 18 address carries a stray mark; all are read as the obvious words. The surname "Kuelthau" (Region 22, third column) and "Rosseter" (Region 20, third column) are legible but worth spot-checking against the source. Row order top to bottom is as printed; nothing appears cut off at the left or right, though the list clearly continues onto the next page.
Source image
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.