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Found in 24 Collections and/or records:

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Frank Maxwell Andrews Papers

Identifier: MSS11015
Abstract

Air force officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, military service and flight records, reports, financial records, and newspaper clippings relating chiefly to Andrews's career in the military and the organization and administration of the air arm of the War Department and operations of the Caribbean Defense Command at the beginning of World War II.

Dates 1920-1943; Majority of material found within ( 1935-1942)
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W. Cameron Forbes Papers

Identifier: MSS20982
Abstract

Business executive, government official, and diplomat. Typewritten transcripts of journals documenting Forbes’s activities in the civil government of the Philippines and as a diplomat and businessman.

Dates 1904-1946
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Felix Frankfurter Papers

Identifier: MSS47571
Abstract

Lawyer, professor of law, and Supreme Court justice. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, oral history interviews, writings, speeches, notes, legal file, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers reflecting Felix Frankfurter's involvement with significant political and social movements and events and his acquaintance with leaders in many segments of society.

Dates 1846-1966; Majority of material found within 1907-1966
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George W. Goethals Papers

Identifier: MSS23002
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Governor of the Canal Zone, army officer, and engineer. Diaries, correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, clippings, family papers, and scrapbooks relating chiefly to the construction of the Panama Canal, Goethals' term as governor of the Canal Zone, his other public service positions, and the Goethals family.

Dates 1830-2014; Majority of material found within 1907-1927
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Hermann Hagedorn Papers

Identifier: MSS24422
Abstract Poet and biographer. Correspondence, subject files, research material, and miscellaneous items relating primarily to Hagedorn’s biographies of Leonard Wood and William Boyce Thompson. Includes original material relating to Thompson’s role in relief work in Russia following the Russian Revolution and in securing diplomatic recognition for the Soviets. Also includes material on Hagedorn’s activities relating to World War I loyalty questions, especially the problems of his fellow German...
Dates 1912-1933
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Eugene Gano Hay Papers

Identifier: MSS25353
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Lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, speeches, writings, and printed materials documenting Hay's career as a prosecuting attorney in Indiana, temporary secretary to Benjamin Harrison, U.S. district attorney in Minnesota, U.S. general appraiser, and Republican Party member.

Dates circa 1770-1933; Majority of material found within 1877-1933
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William Marion Jardine Papers

Identifier: MSS27698
Abstract

Educator, public official, and diplomat. Correspondence, articles, speeches, lectures, notes, and scrapbooks of clippings concerned mainly with the economic aspects of agriculture and rural life. The greatest concentration, 1925-1929, relates to Jardine's term as secretary of agriculture. Other papers cover the four years during which he was minister to Egypt. Additional files concern his tenure as president of the University of Wichita, 1934-1949.

Dates 1908-1955
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Hilary Pollard Jones Papers

Identifier: MSS50088
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Naval officer. Correspondence, orders to duty, speeches, and other material relating primarily to his participation in conferences relating to the limitation of armaments, the Presidential Oil Commission, and the Naval Oil Reserve Commission.

Dates 1889-1937; Majority of material found within ( 1920-1930)
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Emory Scott Land Papers

Identifier: MSS29314
Abstract

Naval officer and public official. Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's government service as head of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, and chief administrator of the U.S. War Shipping Administration. Includes material relating to his cousin, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Land's testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.

Dates 1900-1972
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Archibald MacLeish Papers

Identifier: MSS30932
Abstract Poet, playwright, government official, and Librarian of Congress. Papers include correspondence reflecting MacLeish's relations with friends, literary colleagues, and government associates; notebooks (1919-1940s) containing drafts of poetry and prose; manuscript drafts of plays and radio broadcasts, and speeches, including those written for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edward R. Stettinius, and Harry S. Truman; and notes and manuscripts for classroom lectures on modern poetry given by MacLeish at...
Dates 1907-1981; Majority of material found within 1925-1970
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Franklin MacVeagh Papers

Identifier: MSS30973
Abstract

Lawyer, businessman and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, business, legal, and financial papers, speeches and writings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to MacVeagh's service in the cabinet of William H. Taft and to the MacVeagh (McVey) and Eames families, Chicago social and civic affairs, the Franklin MacVeagh & Company wholesale grocery business, and other personal and business matters.

Dates 1799-1934; Majority of material found within 1909-1913
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Frank Ross McCoy Papers

Identifier: MSS31989
Abstract

Army officer. General and family correspondence, diaries, military and subject files, notebooks, dispatch books, speeches and writings, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other material pertaining chiefly to McCoy’s military career and to various diplomatic assignments.

Dates 1847-1957; Majority of material found within 1892-1954
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Ogden Livingston Mills Papers

Identifier: MSS32987
Abstract

U.S. representative from New York and secretary of the treasury. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements, book material, nd printed matter dealing primarily with taxation, foreign debts, the Federal Reserve System, the tariff, and other financial matters.

Dates 1920-1930; Majority of material found within 1926-1933
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William H. Moody Papers

Identifier: MSS33274
Abstract

U.S. Supreme Court justice, attorney general, secretary of the navy, and representative from Massachusetts. Correspondence and related material mainly from Moody’s service as secretary of the navy and attorney general in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates 1879-1916; Majority of material found within ( 1902-1906)
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G. Bromley Oxnam Papers

Identifier: MSS35329
Abstract

Methodist clergyman and theologian. Diaries, correspondence, writings, printed matter, photographs, and miscellaneous material documenting Oxnam's life and work as a clergyman, stance on church-state issues, and controversies relating to Catholicism, anti-communism, and other issues of faith and politics.

Dates 1823-1963; Majority of material found within 1912-1960
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Robert Porter Patterson Papers

Identifier: MSS35626
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Lawyer, judge, and U. S. secretary of war. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and speeches reflecting Patterson's career as a jurist and service as assistant secretary, under secretary, and secretary of the War Department.

Dates 1909-1956; Majority of material found within 1930-1952
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George S. Patton Papers

Identifier: MSS35634
Abstract United States Army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches and lectures, military papers, scrapbooks, military publications, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Patton's military career as a student at the U.S. Military Academy (1904-1909), member of John J. Pershing's Punitive Expedition into Mexico (1916), aide-de-camp to Pershing and later tank commander in Europe during World War I, and commander of forces in Europe and North Africa...
Dates 1807-1979; Majority of material found within 1904-1945
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Amos Pinchot Papers

Identifier: MSS36251
Abstract

Lawyer and publicist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, notebooks, printed articles, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other printed material reflecting Pinchot's interests in civil liberties, labor problems, government, and politics.

Dates 1856-1945; Majority of material found within 1909-1942
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Papers

Identifier: MSS38281
Abstract

Army officer, author, and public official. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, drafts of speeches and writings, subject files, newspaper clippings, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Roosevelt's service as United States assistant secretary of the navy (1921-1924) under Warren G. Harding and Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, as governor of Puerto Rico (1929-1932), and as governor general of the Philippines (1932-1933).

Dates 1780-1962; Majority of material found within 1920-1944
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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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Carl Spaatz Papers

Identifier: MSS40725
Abstract Career army and air force officer and first chief of staff of the United States Air Force. Diaries, journals, correspondence, memoranda, cables, reports, charts, maps, studies, research notes, printed matter, photographs, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, military memorabilia, family papers, financial records and other papers relating to Spaatz's military career and to his command during World War II of the United States Army Air Forces in Europe, the allied air forces in North Africa, and,...
Dates 1910-1981; Majority of material found within 1942-1963
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William H. Taft Papers

Identifier: MSS42234
Abstract

President of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court. Correspondence including letterpress books, speeches and addresses, presidential and judicial files, legal files and notebooks, family papers and letters, business and estate papers, engagement calendars, guest lists, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and photographs documenting Taft's career.

Dates 1784-1973; Majority of material found within 1880-1930
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Thomas James Walsh and John Edward Erickson Papers

Identifier: MSS44503
Abstract

United States senators from Montana. Official correspondence, personal correspondence, speeches, legislative files, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs relating chiefly to the senatorial career of Walsh and his successor, John Edward Erickson.

Dates 1910-1934
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Walter Francis Willcox Papers

Identifier: MSS45765
Abstract

Statistician and professor of economics. Correspondence, a diary, memoranda, notes, reports, books, articles, scrapbooks, and other material relating primarily to Willcox's career as professor of economics and statistics at Cornell University and as chief statistician in the United States Bureau of the Census.

Dates 1851-1965; Majority of material found within 1886-1940