Scope and Content Note
The papers of Irvine Luther Lenroot (1869-1949) consist of family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, political files, speeches, articles, subject files, biographical material, the typescript draft of an unpublished autobiography, a handwritten record of Lenroot’s congressional career, printed matter, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, legal papers, broadsides, certificates, and other related material. The years covered are 1858-1964, with most of the papers falling within the period 1900-1944. The collection is organized into ten series: Correspondence , Political File , Speech and Article File , Subject File , Biographical File , Miscellany , Scrapbooks , Addition , and Oversize .
Lenroot’s political career from 1894 to 1928 dominates the papers. Specifically, the papers are concerned primarily with Lenroot’s political campaigns and membership in the Wisconsin state legislature, the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, C. H. Crownhart, William H. Dougherty, Herman Lewis Ekern, Guy Despard Goff, John J. Hannan, William Hard, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Walter Jodok Kohler, Robert M. LaFollette (1855-1925), Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Gifford Pinchot, Alfred Thomas Rogers, and Mark Sullivan. Papers of the Clough and Lenroot families include correspondence, genealogical material, and diaries and writings of Lenroot’s wife, Clara Clough Lenroot.