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Found in 58 Collections and/or records:

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Madeleine Korbel Albright Papers

Identifier: MSS85937
Abstract

U.S. secretary of state, diplomat, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, schedules, notes, speeches, writings, teaching files, personal memorabilia, and other papers relating to her life and career as a foreign policy expert and diplomat, particularly her time as National Security Council staff member, foreign policy advisor to presidential and vice-presidential candidates, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Secretary of State.

Dates 1925-2015; Majority of material found within 1961-2001
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Marion Glass Banister Papers

Identifier: MSS11726
Abstract

Assistant treasurer of the United States, editor, and Democratic Party leader. Correspondence, memorabilia, and publicity material dating from Banister's time as assistant treasurer of the United States including items relating to the Democratic National Committee.

Dates 1933-1951
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Wharton Barker Papers

Identifier: MSS11783
Abstract

Financier, publicist, and politician. Correspondence, letterbooks, photographs, pamphlets, printed matter, and scrapbooks reflecting Barker’s broad interests in American and foreign business matters especially in Russia and China, bimetallism, and politics.

Dates 1864-1921; Majority of material found within ( 1887-1896)
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David S. Broder Papers

Identifier: MSS86014
Abstract

Journalist. Correspondence, memoranda, articles and columns, book drafts, notebooks and notes, interviews, speeches and statements, press releases, surveys, reports, political memorabilia, newsletters, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material documenting Broder's career as a journalist.

Dates 1910-2012; Majority of material found within 1966-1983
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James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers

Identifier: MSS14258
Abstract

United States president, secretary of state, and representative and senator from Pennsylvania. Correspondence, his 1858 State of the Union message, and miscellaneous items pertaining primarily to Buchanan’s career before his election as president. Also correspondence of Harriet Lane Johnston, Buchanan’s niece and White House hostess.

Dates 1825-1887; Majority of material found within 1840-1866
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Albert Sidney Burleson Papers

Identifier: MSS14365
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United States representative from Texas, postmaster general in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, and Democratic Party leader. Correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, scrapbooks, and articles relating chiefly to Burleson’s career in politics and government, including letters to and from Woodrow Wilson.

Dates 1845-1943; Majority of material found within 1902-1943
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Grover Cleveland Papers

Identifier: MSS16188
Abstract

President of the United States, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, messages to Congress, speeches, writings, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to the Cleveland presidency and presidential campaigns.

Dates 1743-1945; Majority of material found within 1885-1908
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Clark M. Clifford Papers

Identifier: MSS84499
Abstract

Government official and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, congressional testimony, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Clifford's personal and professional life, including his role as an adviser and counsel to four Democratic presidential administrations, his service as United States secretary of defense, 1968-1969, and his career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C.

Dates 1883-1999; Majority of material found within 1946-1998
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George Creel Papers

Identifier: MSS17210
Abstract Author, editor, and government official. Scrapbooks and bound volumes of writings by and about Creel form the bulk of the collection. Includes correspondence, notes, speeches, lectures, book reviews, and campaign material. A series on Woodrow Wilson and the United States Committee on Public Information contains correspondence with Wilson as well as his corrections of drafts of Creel's cables, letters, speeches, and other writings relating to the Wilson administration during World War I and...
Dates 1857-1953; Majority of material found within ( 1896-1953)
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Caleb Cushing Papers

Identifier: MSS17509
Abstract

United States cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, notes, notebooks, legal file, business papers, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers reflecting Cushing's role in national and international affairs of the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates circa 1785-1906; Majority of material found within 1820-1878
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Josephus Daniels Papers

Identifier: MSS17715
Abstract Diplomat, journalist, and secretary of the navy. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, and papers of the Daniels, Bagley, Seabrook, and Worth families and other material. The bulk of the collection relates to events and policy decisions during Daniels's service as secretary of the navy during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, but also concerns his career as editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, his work with the Democratic Party, and his...
Dates 1829-1948; Majority of material found within 1913-1921
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Democratic Study Group Records

Identifier: MSS57125
Abstract Legislative service organization operating from 1959 to 1995 to assist Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives. Records include research publications, reports, position papers, draft legislation, correspondence, legal documents, government records, voting and whip records, hearing statements, committee and caucus records, surveys, media files, campaign records, photographs, and training material provided to members in support of common political and legislative...
Dates 1912-1995; Majority of material found within 1960-1990
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James William Denver Papers

Identifier: mm79018309
Abstract

Lawyer, army officer, United States representative from California, United States commissioner of Indian affairs, and governor of Kansas. Letterpress books containing correspondence relating to Denver's law practice in Washington, D.C., which was concerned with Choctaw Indian claims and land disputes in California and elsewhere in the West; his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, 1884; and correspondence describing Denver's experience during the Mexican War, 1847.

Dates 1847-1884
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Stuart Eizenstat Papers

Identifier: MSS84750
Abstract

Lawyer, ambassador, adviser to the president of the United States, and public official. Correspondence, memoranda, transcripts of interviews, notebooks and notes, subject files, speeches, writings, reports, briefing books, press releases, clippings, calendars, photographs, printed matter, and other material in both physical and digital formats relating chiefly to Eizenstat's writings.

Dates 1929-2003; Majority of material found within 1976-2001
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Gerhard Alden Gesell Papers

Identifier: MSS81163
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Judge and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of writings, speeches, agenda and minutes of meetings, opinions, orders, dockets, notes, sentencing information, case files, and other legal papers and material pertaining primarily to Gesell's career as judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and documenting his cases in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, antitrust matters, patent cases, and government regulations.

Dates 1913-2003; Majority of material found within 1962-1992
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Theodore Francis Green Papers

Identifier: MSS23994
Abstract

United States senator and governor of Rhode Island and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, subject and chronological files, clippings, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating principally to Green's senatorial career.

Dates 1924-1960; Majority of material found within 1937-1960
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Whiting Griswold Correspondence

Identifier: MSS58131
Abstract

Lawyer and politician. Letters to Griswold from various prominent figures relating to such topics as the Whig, Free Soil, and American parties, the Democratic Party, his legal practice, Massachusetts politics, patronage, the Hoosac Tunnel, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Civil War, and the 1853 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.

Dates 1843-1874
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Edwin A. Halsey Papers

Identifier: MSS61226
Abstract

Secretary of the United States Senate and secretary-treasurer of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Correspondence, clippings, printed and near-print material, financial records, campaign papers, and other material relating to Halsey's duties as secretary of the United States Senate and to various Democratic campaigns.

Dates 1930-1946
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Charles S. Hamlin Papers

Identifier: MSS24661
Abstract

Lawyer, politician, assistant secretary of the treasury, and governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts of writings and speeches, biographical notes, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed matter and other papers relating chiefly to Hamlin's service in the United States Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System, his civic affairs, and his family's social life in Washington, D.C.

Dates 1869-1968; Majority of material found within ( 1880-1938)
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Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman Papers

Identifier: MSS84292
Abstract Political activist and diplomat. Family papers, correspondence, memoranda, reports, agenda, minutes, programs, briefing binders, political polls, lists, research files, Federal Election Commission filings, financial and legal records, speeches and writings, interview and event transcripts, diary excerpts, biographical material, awards, publicity material, engagement calendars, scheduling and event files, travel files, digital files, address books, guest books, passports, marriage...
Dates 1909-1997; Majority of material found within 1943-1997
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Robert R. Hitt Papers

Identifier: MSS26104
Abstract

U.S. Representative from Illinois. Personal, political, diplomatic, and business correspondence and other papers, including shorthand notes and material relating to Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Douglas Debates, and Civil War courts-martial. Other topics include his congressional service and the annexation of Hawaii.

Dates 1830-1906
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Joseph Holt Papers

Identifier: MSS26385
Abstract United States Postmaster general, secretary of war, judge advocate general of the United States Army, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, legal papers, newspaper clippings, speeches, photographs, and printed matter relating to Holt's duties as judge advocate general, especially his work on the military commission that tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators, the trial of Mary Surratt, and various controversies surrounding the work of the commission. Other topics...
Dates 1797-1917; Majority of material found within ( 1859-1889)
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House Democratic Caucus Records

Identifier: MSS18242
Abstract

Organization of Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives; established in 1796. Minutes of meetings, transcripts of meetings and hearings, office files, correspondence, legislation, caucus and House rules, reports, handbooks, printed matter, and other records documenting the proceedings of the caucus and its efforts to shape national public policy.

Dates 1913-2022; Majority of material found within 1969-1998
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Philip C. Jessup Papers

Identifier: MSS27771
Abstract Jurist, diplomat, and educator. Family and general correspondence, reports and memoranda, speeches and writings, legal papers, event programs and invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, press releases, notes, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Jessup's work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Institute of Pacific Relations, United States Department of State, United Nations, and International Court of Justice, as well as his service in the United States Army during...
Dates 1574-2009; Majority of material found within 1925-1983
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Jesse H. Jones Papers

Identifier: MSS28076
Abstract

U.S. secretary of commerce and financier. Correspondence, speeches, reports, congressional releases, subject file, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting Jones's career, including as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and secretary of commerce.

Dates 1916-1960; Majority of material found within 1926-1945