(2022-0739-F) Floyd Mayweather

3 folders, approximately 62 pages

This collection contains records related to Floyd Mayweather, Jr., a highly decorated former professional boxer who competed between 1996 and 2017. The records include correspondence from Floyd Mayweather, Jr., family members, friends, and locals to Mayor John H. Logie of Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Circuit Judge David McKeague, and to President Bill Clinton, as well as a response from the Department of Justice.

The materials in FOIA 2022-0739-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related material. Floyd Mayweather, Jr., is a highly decorated former professional boxer who competed between 1996 and 2017. As an amateur boxer, he won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the U.S. national championship, and three U.S. Golden Gloves. As a professional boxer, he won fifteen major world championships, was The Ring magazine’s Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007, the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Fighter of the Year in 2007, 2013, and 2015, and named the BWAA Fighter of the Decade for the 2010s. He retired with an undefeated record in 2017, though has since returned to the ring for several exhibition bouts. In his early life, Floyd Jr. was trained in boxing by his father, former boxer Floyd Mayweather, Sr., though his training was disrupted when Floyd Sr. was incarcerated following a 1993 drug-trafficking conviction. This collection contains correspondence from Floyd Mayweather, Jr., family members, friends and locals to Mayor John H. Logie of Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Circuit Judge David McKeague, and President Bill Clinton requesting a conditional pardon for Floyd Mayweather, Sr., as well as a response from the Department of Justice.

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Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas— Clinton Presidential Records: White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject Files; Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files. The White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) contains a variety of series created to organize and track documents and correspondence. The WHORM Alpha file was compiled by the White House Office of Records Management from 1993 – 1996 and is a series of documents arranged by name of persons, organizations, or events. The WHORM Subject file was compiled by the White House Office of Records Management and is a series of categories designated by a letter/number combination. In addition, there are WHORM, WHORM Counsel, WHORM (CL), WHORM (OP), WHORM (Too Late); WHORM (Various Offices); and WHORM (Alpha Project) series. Staff and Office files were maintained at the folder level by staff members within their individual offices and document all levels of administration activity. Staff and Office files are processed at the folder level, that is, individual documents are not selected and removed from a folder for processing. While this method maintains folder integrity, it frequently results in the incidental processing of documents that are not wholly responsive to the subject area. FOIA 2022-0739-F includes WHORM records from these subject codes: JL001 Amnesty - Clemency - Pardons.

Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22, as amended) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions.

Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

Staff Archivist, 2023. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released.

The following is a list of documents and folders processed in response to FOIA 2022-0739-F:
Box 1
Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File
Category Case Number
JL001 157303
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Agency Liaison
Correspondence
193461 [Floyd Mayweather, Jr.] [OA/ID 8014]
207443 [Floyd Mayweather, Jr.] [OA/ID 8596]