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Found in 10 Collections and/or records:

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Albert Sidney Burleson Papers

Identifier: MSS14365
Abstract

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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James A. Farley Papers

Identifier: MSS20263
Abstract

Postmaster general, politician, and businessman. Correspondence, memoranda, subject files, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Farley's service as postmaster general, chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, and business interests.

Dates 1790-1976; Majority of material found within 1918-1976
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Walter Quintin Gresham Papers

Identifier: MSS24117
Abstract

United States secretary of state, secretary of the treasure, postmaster general, jurist, statesman, and soldier. Correspondence, letterbooks, and printed matter relating mainly to Gresham's service as postmaster general in the administration of Chester Alan Arthur and judge and secretary of state in the administration of Grover Cleveland. Also includes letters Gresham wrote to his wife during the Civil War.

Dates 1857-1932; Majority of material found within ( 1883-1895)
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Perry S. Heath Papers

Identifier: MSS82156
Abstract

Newspaperman, political writer, Republican National Committee secretary and party emissary. Correspondence, journal notes, printed matter, memorabilia, and biographical material chiefly relating to Heath's term as secretary of the Republican National Committee and his work on the 1896 presidential campaign of William McKinley.

Dates 1890-1983; Majority of material found within ( 1896-1927)
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Horatio King Papers

Identifier: MSS28613
Abstract

United States postmaster general, editor, and author. Chiefly letters received by King relating to politics, to his literary, historical, and social activities, and social life in Washington, D.C., in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Dates 1832-1906; Majority of material found within 1857-1891
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John McLean Papers

Identifier: MSS32326
Abstract

U.S. representative from Ohio, U.S. postmaster general, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Ohio Supreme Court associate justice. Correspondence, financial data, docket book, printed matter, a file of reports, opinions and briefs arranged by case name, and other papers relating to McLean’s service as postmaster general and Supreme Court justice.

Dates 1816-1866; Majority of material found within 1829-1860
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William Medill Papers

Identifier: MSS32524
Abstract

Lawyer, United States representative and governor of Ohio, and United States government official. Correspondence, account books, and miscellaneous material primarily relating to Medill’s service as assistant postmaster general (1845), commissioner of Indian affairs (1845-1850), and first comptroller of the United States treasury (1857-1861).

Dates 1834-1864
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George von Lengerke Meyer Papers

Identifier: MSS32789
Abstract

Ambassador to Italy and to Russia, postmaster general, and secretary of the navy. Diaries, family correspondence, and memorabilia recording Meyer’s social and family life and national and international events of which he was a part.

Dates 1900-1917
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John Austin Moon Papers

Identifier: MSS33282
Abstract

Lawyer, jurist, and U.S. representative from Tennessee. Correspondence and petitions relating to statehood for the Indian Territory, 1902; merchant ledgers belonging to Austin M. Appling, Moon’s grandfather, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia; and newspaper clippings concerning Moon’s political campaigns and the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Dates 1832-1921; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1921)
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John Aldrich Stephenson Collection of the Hand, Fiske, and Aldrich Families Papers

Identifier: MSS65753
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, journals, travel diaries, manuscripts of sermons, poems, essays, and other writings, business and financial records, printed works, biographical and genealogical materials, drawings and reproductions of paintings and photographs, and other papers collected by Stephenson relating to the Hand, Fiske, and Aldrich families.

Dates 1745-1966