Charles Linza McNary Papers
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Charles L. McNary (1874-1944) span the years 1921-1944, with the focus on his career as senator from Oregon, including as Republican minority leader from 1933 to 1944. Included are correspondence, memoranda, legislative bills and resolutions, index cards, typed speeches with handwritten emendations, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. The papers are organized into six series: Family Letters , General Correspondence , Speeches and Statements , Legislative File , Biographical Material , and Printed Matter .
The General Correspondence provides a cross-section view of public opinion directed at McNary while he was the Republican leader in the Senate. Topics include United States neutrality in 1939-1941, Lend-Lease legislation, the United States Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (Burke-Wadsworth Bill), and McNary's answers to these issues. There is some correspondence regarding his nomination as the Republican candidate for the vice presidency in 1940. Other topics in the collection relate to agriculture, conservation, Indian affairs, tariffs, and the McNary-Haugen Bill.
Correspondents include Ralph H. Cake, James Couzens, Thomas E. Dewey, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, Richard L. Neuberger, Gerald P. Nye, Ben Peterson, Joseph P. Tumulty, Wallace H. White, and Wendell L. Willkie.
Dates
- Creation: 1921-1944
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Charles Linza McNary are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Copyright Status
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Charles Linza McNary in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Biographical Note
Biographical Note
- 1874, June 12
- Born, Salem, Ore.
- 1896 - 1898
- Attended Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
- 1898
- Admitted to Oregon bar
- 1898 - 1913
- Practiced law with John H. McNary
- 1902
- Married Jessie Breyman (died 1918)
- 1908 - 1913
- Dean of the law school, Willamette University, Salem, Ore.
- 1913 - 1915
- Justice, supreme court of Oregon
- 1916 - 1917
- Chairman, Republican State Central Committee
- 1917 - 1919
- Appointed United States senator for unexpired term of Harry Lane
- 1919 - 1944
- Elected to United States Senate and served five terms
- 1923
- Married Cornelia W. Morton
- 1926
- Became chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
- 1928
- Considered for Republican vice-presidential nomination
- 1933 - 1944
- Republican minority leader, United States Senate
- 1940
- Republican vice-presidential candidate
- 1944, Feb. 25
- Died, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Extent
20,000 items
64 containers
24.8 linear feet
Abstract
Justice of the Oregon supreme court and U.S. senator from Oregon. Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, legislative files, notebooks, pamphlets, clippings, and other material relating to McNary's career as a judge and legislator.
Arrangement of the Papers
This collection is arranged in six series:
Catalog Record
Provenance
The papers of Charles Linza McNary, justice of the Oregon supreme court and U.S. senator from Oregon, were given to the Library of Congress by his widow, Mrs. Charles L. McNary, and by his niece, Margaret Stolz Marshall, from 1952 to 1953.
Processing History
The papers of Charles Linza McNary were arranged and described in 1953. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
Source
- McNary, Charles Linza, 1874-1944 (Creator, Person)
Subject
- Cake, Ralph H. (Ralph Harlan), 1891- --Correspondence. (Person)
- Couzens, James, 1872-1936--Correspondence. (Person)
- Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971--Correspondence. (Person)
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence. (Person)
- Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945--Correspondence. (Person)
- McNary, Charles Linza, 1874-1944. (Person)
- Neuberger, Richard L. (Richard Lewis), 1912-1960--Correspondence. (Person)
- Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971--Correspondence. (Person)
- Peterson, Ben--Correspondence. (Person)
- Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1879-1954--Correspondence. (Person)
- White, Wallace H. (Wallace Humphrey), 1877-1952--Correspondence. (Person)
- Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944--Correspondence. (Person)
- Oregon. Supreme Court. (Organization)
- United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc. (Organization)
- United States. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. (Organization)
Geographic
- Oregon--Politics and government.
- United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
- United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.
Occupation
Topical
- Agricultural laws and legislation--United States.
- Agriculture--United States.
- Conservation of natural resources--United States.
- Courts--Oregon.
- Draft--United States.
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- Law--Oregon.
- Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
- Neutrality--United States.
- Tariff--United States.
- Vice-Presidents--United States--Election.
- World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States.
- Title
- Charles Linza McNary Papers
- Subtitle
- A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress
- Author
- Prepared by Manuscript Division Staff
- Date
- 2012
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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