Kenneth Farrand Simpson papers 1900-1983 1923-1941

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Kenneth Farrand Simpson papers 1900-1983 1923-1941

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0092

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 campaign for election to the United States House of Representatives from the Seventeenth Congressional District of New York in 1940.

14.5 linear feet (37 boxes and 4 reels of microfilm)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350284

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Simpson, Kenneth F. (Kenneth Farrand), 1895-1941

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Kenneth F. Simpson was born in New York City on May 4, 1895. He was a member of the Yale College Class of 1917 and received an LL.B. degree from the Harvard Law School in 1922. Simpson was in private legal practice in New York City, but from 1925 to 1927 he served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Simpson played a crucial role in rebuilding the New York Republican Party in the late 1930s. He was chairman of the Republican County Committee in New York, 1935-1940, attended th...