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Found in 27 Collections and/or records:

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Chester Alan Arthur Papers

Identifier: MSS11213
Abstract

U.S. president. Correspondence, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly relating to Arthur's presidency, his service as collector or customs for the Port of New York, and the New York Republican State Committee.

Dates 1843-1960; Majority of material found within 1870-1888
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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Papers

Identifier: MSS11734
Abstract

United States representative, governor of Massachusetts, and army officer. Family and general correspondence, diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks’s political career and as an army officer during the Civil War.

Dates 1829-1911; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1880)
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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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Thomas F. Bayard Papers

Identifier: MSS12088
Abstract

Senator, secretary of state, and ambassador. Correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Bayard's career after the Civil War as a politician and legislator and as a cabinet official and diplomat during the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland.

Dates 1780-1899; Majority of material found within 1860-1889
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Beale Family Papers from the Decatur House

Identifier: MSS018127
Abstract

Correspondence, journals, biographical material, speeches, articles, scrapbooks, printed material, and other papers pertaining to the role of Edward Fitzgerald Beale in opening the West; the diplomatic career of Truxtun Beale as United States minister to Greece, Persia, and Romania; the naval careers of Thomas Truxtun and Stephen Decatur; the Beale (Beal), Chase, Edwards, and Truxtun families; and the Decatur House.

Dates 1794-1957
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James Gillespie Blaine Family Papers

Identifier: MSS12914
Abstract

United States secretary of state, United States representative and senator from Maine, and journalist. Family and general correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, memoirs, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Blaine's public career.

Dates 1776-1945; Majority of material found within 1870-1892
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Schuyler Colfax Correspondence and Speeches

Identifier: MSS16394
Abstract

Vice president of the United States, congressman, and newspaper editor. Correspondence and speeches documenting Colfax's activities as a newspaper editor, his involvement in the Whig and Republican parties, and his tenure as United States representative from Indiana and vice president under Ulysses S. Grant.

Dates 1837-1882
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George B. Cortelyou Papers

Identifier: MSS16949
Abstract

Public official and presidential secretary. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, memoranda, subject files, printed matter, and miscellany relating to Cortelyou's duties as secretary to William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, his service as secretary of commerce and labor, postmaster general, and secretary of the treasury, and his work as chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Dates 1871-1948; Majority of material found within ( 1897-1908)
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Columbus Delano Family Papers

Identifier: MSS18184
Abstract

Family members include Columbus Delano, U.S. secretary of the interior and representative from Ohio, and his son, John Sherman Delano, businessman. Correspondence, financial records, photograph album, and miscellany relating to Ohio and national politics and patronage, the Republican Party, western lands, railroad expansion, and personal and financial matters.

Dates 1845-1889
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Thomas Ewing Family Papers

Identifier: MSS20099
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, legal files, military records, speeches and writings, reports, notes, autographs, scrapbooks, biographical material, commonplace books, financial records, genealogies, photographs, printed matter, and maps pertaining to members of the Ewing family including Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), senator from Ohio and cabinet member; Thomas Ewing (1829-1896), Union general during the Civil War and congressman from Ohio; Ellen Ewing Sherman and her husband, William T....
Dates 1757-1941; Majority of material found within 1815-1896
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Hamilton Fish Papers

Identifier: MSS20602
Abstract

Congressman, senator, governor, and secretary of state. Correspondence, journals, diaries, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Fish's service as secretary of state under Ulysses S. Grant, as a member of Congress, and governor of New York.

Dates 1732-1914; Majority of material found within 1840-1890
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Joseph Benson Foraker Papers

Identifier: MSS20958
Abstract

Army officer, governor of Ohio, and United States senator from Ohio. Includes originals and printed versions of correspondence with Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, and William H. Taft.

Dates 1884-1916
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Benjamin B. French Family Papers

Identifier: MSS21550
Abstract

New Hampshire politician, clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, D.C. Journals, personal correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to family matters and including commentary on political events and social life in Washington in the nineteenth century. Other prominent family members represented in the papers include Francis O. French, banker, and Amos Tuck, congressman.

Dates 1778-1940; Majority of material found within 1813-1893
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James A. Garfield Papers

Identifier: MSS291956
Abstract

United States president, army officer, lawyer, and educator. Family, personal, and official correspondence including records of Garfield's Civil War military service, diary (1848-1881), speeches and other public statements, legal papers, genealogical material, college notebooks, tributes, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other material relating primarily to Garfield's career and death.

Dates 1775-1889; Majority of material found within 1850-1881
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Horace Greeley Papers

Identifier: MSS23937
Abstract

Journalist. Correspondence, autobiography, writings by and about Greeley, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a notebook, printed matter, and other papers pertaining to his life and career as a journalist.

Dates 1812-1928; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1872)
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Hanna-McCormick Family Papers

Identifier: MSS51391
Abstract Correspondence, diary and notebook fragments, speeches, financial records, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers focusing chiefly on the political activities of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. Also includes correspondence of Marcus Alonzo Hanna relating to Ohio and national politics and also to his personal and business affairs. Other papers concern the Chicago Tribune and its publishers, Joseph Medill and Robert Rutherford McCormick, grandfather and...
Dates 1792-1985; Majority of material found within 1902-1944
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Joseph R. Hawley Papers

Identifier: MSS25320
Abstract

Army officer, editor and United States representative and senator from Connecticut. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drafts of speeches, business papers, and memorabilia relating to Hawley's personal and family life and to his business and political work.

Dates 1638-1906; Majority of material found within 1841-1906
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John Alexander Logan Family Papers

Identifier: MSS30445
Abstract

Chiefly papers of John Alexander Logan (1826-1886), Union Army officer and United States senator and representative from Illinois; and of his wife, Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan (1838-1923), author. Correspondence, legal and military papers, drafts of speeches, articles, and books, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, and printed matter relating chiefly to the Logans and the military, political, and social history of the Civil War and postwar periods.

Dates 1836-1925; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1917)
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Stephen Bleecker Luce Papers

Identifier: MSS52787
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, order books, subject files, scrapbooks, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellany documenting Luce's naval career, including his work to establish the United States Naval War College and the Naval Historical Society, his service with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and his diplomatic role in the arbitration of the Canadian fisheries dispute (1887).

Dates 1799-1955; Majority of material found within 1842-1912
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Hugh McCulloch Papers

Identifier: MSS32011
Abstract

U.S. secretary of the treasury, banker, and financier. Primarily correspondence with some speeches, reports, and other material relating to McCulloch's career as a banker and financier, as U.S. comptroller of the currency, and as U.S. secretary of the treasury.

Dates 1855-1905; Majority of material found within ( 1863-1869)
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William McKinley Papers

Identifier: MSS32268
Abstract

United States president, representative, and army officer, and governor of Ohio. Correspondence, speeches, will, messages, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to McKinley's presidential administration.

Dates circa 1847-1935; Majority of material found within 1897-1901
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Louis T. Michener Papers

Identifier: MSS32813
Abstract

Lawyer, politician, and public official from Indiana. Correspondence, reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, autograph album, and printed matter relating chiefly to Indiana and Republican Party politics and to Michener's role in Benjamin Harrison's senate and presidential campaigns.

Dates 1880-1927
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Miles-Cameron Families Correspondence

Identifier: MSS32870
Abstract

Army officer. Correspondence addressed to Elizabeth Cameron, J. D. Cameron, Nelson Appleton Miles, and Sherman Miles.

Dates 1661-1956; Majority of material found within 1862-1944
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Elihu Root Papers

Identifier: MSS38307
Abstract

United States secretary of state, secretary of war, United States senator from New York, and statesman. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, subject files, financial papers, calendar and appointment books, invitations, and printed materials relating to Root's career as a lawyer and statesman.

Dates 1863-1937; Majority of material found within 1899-1937
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Alexander Robey Shepherd Papers

Identifier: MSS39719
Abstract

Territorial governor. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, clippings, printed matter, and memorabilia relating to Shepherd's career as a political official in Washington, D.C.

Dates 1776-1945; Majority of material found within 1868-1900