Louis Addison Dent Papers, 1717-1946

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Louis Addison Dent Papers, 1717-1946

Louis Addison Dent Papers, 1717-1946

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/d/Dent,Louis_Addison.html

Louis Addison Dent (1863-1947) was a lawyer who held several federally appointed positions under Republican administrations. This collection chiefly contains letters and correspondence regarding Louis Addison Dent's professional career, particularly 1890-1900, but also includes family correspondence, scrapbooks, and geneological material about the Dent family. The papers primarily concern Dent's personal, public, and professional activities, primarily in 1890-1900, and provide information about Washington, D.C., politics; the machinations behind appointments to various offices; his work for Secretary of State James G. Blaine (1830-1893); foreign affairs, especially in the West Indies, where he visited the United States consulates; abuses in the foreign service during the administration of Grover Cleveland (1837-1908); Dent's appointments to the Jamaican consulate in 1892, 1897-1898; The Spanish-American War; his involvement in the Republican Party; his work as registrar of wills in Washington, D.C., auditor of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, special assistant to the Attorney General, private practice lawyer, and as a member of various commissions, committees, and patriotic and historic societies. Approximately 30 items are correspondence between Dent and Blaine and President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) and his secretaries.

2,500; 4.0

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection