New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
F. Trubee Davison papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 601
Overview:
Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs and memorabilia documenting Davison's activities as founder of a Yale aviation unit during World War I, his political career in the Republican Party in New York State, his presidency of the American Museum of Natural History (1933-1951) and his activities in many foundations, academic institutions and philanthropies. The aspect of his life most thoroughly documented is his organization of a Yale flying unit, which was formally recognized by the...
Dates:
1882-1961
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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F. Trubee Davison papers
Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 180
Overview:
Newspaper clippings documenting his personal life, his business affairs as president of the New York Central Railroad and his political career as senator from New York (1899-1905), as delegate-at-large to nine Republican National Conventions (1888-1924) and as a prominent figure in Republican national politics.
Dates:
1879-1928
Thomas Collier Platt papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 727
Overview:
Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, political cartoons, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other personal and family papers of Thomas C. Platt, New York businessman and Republican politician. The collection deals primarily with the inner workings of the Republican party in the state of New York from the 1870's to 1910, with emphasis on the period from 1896 to 1909.
Dates:
1851-1915
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Thomas Collier Platt papers
James Rockwell Sheffield papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 446
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, scrapbooks, writings, and photographs documenting the political and diplomatic career of James Rockwell Sheffield. The bulk of the material dates from 1893 to 1938 and concerns either the New York Republican party and its influence on National politics or American diplomatic relations with Mexico during the Coolidge administration. Major correspondents include William Boyd Allison, Nicholas Murray Butler, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft,...
Dates:
1768-1969
Kenneth Farrand Simpson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 92
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, political memoranda, campaign literature, and printed matter documenting Kenneth Simpson's career as chairman of the Republican County Committee in New York (1935-1940). The papers also include case and client files from Simpson's legal practice. The papers highlight Simpson's support for Fiorello LaGuardia in the 1936 New York mayoral campaign, his opposition to Thomas E. Dewey's candidacy for presidential nomination in 1940, and his own successful...
Dates:
1900-1983, bulk 1923-1941
Henry Lewis Stimson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 465
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, letter books, speeches, articles, letters to the editor, statements prepared for presentation to Congress and substantial subject files with clippings, printed matter, reports, memoranda and photographs related to Henry Stimson's various public offices. While the official records of Stimson's service (as Secretary of War under President Taft, Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover and as Secretary of War in the cabinets of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman)...
Dates:
1846-1966
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Henry Lewis Stimson papers
Paul Moritz Warburg papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 535
Overview:
Correspondence, documents, memorabilia, and printed materials relating to the career of Paul M. Warburg in banking and international finance. Correspondents include Nelson Aldrich, Carter Glass, Col. Edward M. House and Woodrow Wilson.
Dates:
1904-1932
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Paul Moritz Warburg papers