Scope and Content Note
The papers of Ogden L. Mills (1884-1937) span the years 1920-1939, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1926-1933. The collection includes correspondence; memoranda; speeches, statements, and writings; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and printed matter; and other material relating to Mills's career as Republican congressman from New York and as under secretary and secretary of the treasury. The papers are organized into eleven series: General Correspondence, Special Correspondence, Subject File, Official Correspondence, Patronage, Legislation, Speeches and Statements, Book File, News Releases, Scrapbooks, and Miscellany.
Recurring topics in the collection include taxation, foreign debts, the Federal Reserve System, the tariff, and other financial matters. Among the variety of materials are bills considered by the House of Representatives during Mill's tenure in Congress, 1921-1927; speeches by Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred Landon, and others; and material that Mills used in lectures at the New School for Social Research and for an unpublished book. Prominent correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Frank B. Kellogg, Henry L. Stimson, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Charles Hamlin, Eugene Meyer, and Owen D. Young.