Ross A. Collins Papers 1906-1967 (bulk 1920-1963)

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Ross A. Collins Papers 1906-1967 (bulk 1920-1963)

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Congressman, public official, and lawyer from Mississippi. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes, clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, and other papers relating to Collins's service in Congress, especially to his introduction of the bill authorizing the Library of Congress acquisition of the Otto Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula. Also documents Collins's work pertaining to the mechanization of the U.S. Army, the career of Mississippi politician Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, and the claims of an individual for enrollment as a Choctaw Indian.

11,240 items; 25 containers plus 20 oversize; 18.4 linear feet

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357293

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), 1869-

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Collins, Ross A. (Ross Alexander), 1880-1968

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Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore, 1877-1947

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Controversial Mississippi state senator, 1908-1912; Lieutenant Governor, 1912-1916; Governor, 1916-1920 and 1928-1932; U.S. senator, 1934-1947. From the description of Papers, 1905-1947. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 45071691 ...

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