Carl L. Sackett Papers, 1871 - 1971

Ross, Nellie Tayloe, 1876-1977

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Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was an American politician, the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the first woman to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri she lived in Miltonvale, Kansas and Omaha, Nebraska before moving to Cheyenne, Wyoming with her husband, lawyer William Bradford Ross, w...

Hunt, Lester C. (Lester Calloway), 1892-1954

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Governor of Wyoming, 1943-1949; U.S. senator from Wyoming. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1948-1950. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862377 Lester Calloway Hunt, Wyoming governor and United States senator, was born in Isabel, Illinois, in 1892. Hunt earned a D.D.S. in 1917 from St. Louis University and established a dental practice in Lander, Wyoming, in 1919. Hunt continued to practice dentistry until 1934. Hun...

Ross, William B. (William Bradford), 1873-1924

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Smith, Nels H., 1884-1976

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Nels H. Smith (1884-1976), a Republican politician and rancher, was governor of Wyoming from 1939-1943. A native of South Dakota, he moved to Crook County, Wyoming in 1907. He later moved to Weston County where he was elected to the 1919 session of the Wyoming House of Representatives. Smith served one term as governor and was defeated for re-election in 1942. From the description of Nels H. Smith papers, 1926-1943 (bulk 1938-1943) (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). W...

Schwartz, Henry Herman, 1869-1955

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Sackett, Carl L., 1876-1972

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Prominent Wyoming attorney; served as Sheridan city attorney (1910-1911), state representative (1919-1920), and U.S. attorney for Wyoming (1933-1949). From the description of Carl L. Sackett collection, 1871-1971 (bulk 1920-1965). (Wyoming State Archives). WorldCat record id: 70958877 Carl L. Sackett (1876-1972) practiced law in Sheridan, Wyoming, for seventy years after obtaining a law degree from Ohio State University in 1902. He also served as U.S. District Attorney for W...

Carey, Joseph M. (Joseph Maull), 1845-1924

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Resident of Cheyenne from May, 1869; U.S. Attorney and Wyoming Supreme Court Justice; cattle-raiser and past president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association; thrice mayor of Cheyenne; delegate to Congress. From the description of Politics and people of Wyoming : Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1884-1885. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 215005703 ...

O'Mahoney, Joseph C. (Joseph Christopher), 1884-1962

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739372 Lawyer and U.S. senator from Wyoming. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1949-1950. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122583179 U.S. senator from Wyoming, 1934-1953 and 1954-1961. From the description of Papers, 1...

Kendrick, John B. (John Benjamin), 1857-1933

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John B. Kendrick (1857-1933), a Wyoming state and U.S. senator, owned and operated one of the largest cattle ranches in Wyoming. Kendrick came to Wyoming on a cattle drive from Texas and established the Ula Ranch in Sheridan County, Wyoming in 1883. By 1897 he was associated with the Converse Cattle Company in Sheridan County and eventually became its owner. Kendrick served as a Democrat in the Wyoming State Senate from 1910-1914. In 1914 Kendrick was elected Wyoming governor and in...