Thomas J. Dodd letters to John Bakeless 1959-1970

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Thomas J. Dodd letters to John Bakeless 1959-1970

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Thomas J. Dodd (1907-1971) was a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut. In 1967, he was censured by the Senate for misuse of campaign funds and defeated for reelection. John Bakeless (1894-1978) of Seymour, Connecticut, was a graduate of Williams College and Harvard who served as a military intelligence officer in the United States Army. The collection consists of letters written between 1959 and 1968 by Senator Dodd in response to letters from Bakeless. The letters generally relate to Dodd's stances on various political issues, or his position on legislation presented to the House and Senate

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Dodd, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1907-1971

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Thomas Joseph Dodd, the third generation of his family to reside in Connecticut, was born in Norwich on 15 May 1907. During his career he served two terms in the U.S. Senate, and became well known for his work on the Nuremburg Trials where he served as Vice-Chairman of the Review Board and Executive Trial Counsel. After an unsuccessful campaign for the Senate in 1970, Dodd retired from public life and died in 1971 at the age of 64. From the description of Thomas J. Dodd papers, 1919-...

Bakeless, John, 1894-1978

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John Edwin Bakeless was born on December 30, 1894, in Carlisle, Pa. He married Katherine Little in 1920. Bakeless attended Williams College (1914-1918) and, though his final year was not completed because of enlistment in the army, received his bachelor's degree in absentia in 1918. At the end of World War I, he embarked on graduate studies at Harvard University where he studied Philosophy (M.A. 1920) and English (Ph. D. 1936). Author of a number of books and magazine articles, Bakeless also ser...