Frank A. Crampton papers 1878-1980 (bulk 1900-1958)

United States. Bureau of Reclamation

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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Crampton, Frank A.

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Frank A. Crampton was a mining engineer who worked in western mining in the first half of the twentieth century. He later worked as a water resource engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation in California. He spent 1952-1953 in Korea as a mining advisor to President Syngman Rhee to help with the rebuilding of South Korea. Later in his life he wrote of his early mining experiences in a book, "Deep Enough," published in 1956. From the description of Frank A. Crampton papers, 1902-1958. (U...

Rhee, Syngman, 1875-1965

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Synman Rhee (1875-1965) was the first and last Head of State of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and the President of South Korea from 1948-1960. He spent his early life as a Korean revolutionary, with his focus shifting to the Korean independence movement after Japanese occupation. Much of this period was spent in effective exile including while obtaining degrees from George Washington University and Harvard University before ultimately becoming the first Korean to receive...

Burgdorff, Ferdinand, 1881-1975.

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