Scope and Content Note
The papers of William Marion Jardine (1879-1955) span the years 1908-1955 and consist of correspondence, articles, speeches, lectures, notes, and scrapbooks of clippings relating chiefly to his career as secretary of agriculture, minister to Egypt, and president of the University of Wichita. The greatest concentration of material consits of four volumes of congratulatory messages dated 1925 and a substantial amount of material for the 1929-1933 period. The scrapbooks are most complete for the years 1925-1929. The correspondence relates to politics, economic problems, and especially with various aspects of agriculture. The majority of Jardine's speeches and articles concern agricultural topics. Among the correspondents are Milton Stover Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Alfred M. Landon, Andrew W. Mellon, Henry L. Stimson, and Harry Hines Woodring.