J. Hugo Dore papers, 1935, 1938-1951.

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J. Hugo Dore papers, 1935, 1938-1951.

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The J. Hugo Dore Papers contain Dore's judicial files and personal papers. The judicial files consist of reviews, opinions, correspondence, dockets of cases, and other related records pertaining to causes and actions appealed from the district courts together with similar material submitted by Judge Sam A. LeBlanc (1930-1949) and Judge Morris A. Lottinger (1950-1965) of the Second District of the First Circuit and by Judge C. Ellis Ott (1936-1948) and Judge Robert S. Ellis Jr. (1949-1959) of the Third District of the First Circuit. These records are organized by the name of the judge or judges serving the district and alphabetically thereunder by name of the plaintiff in the case. The personal papers include incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning personal business and some family matters, copies of letters of condolence and congratulations, and some requests for assistance on behalf of friends and constituents, 1939-1950; copies of minutes of the LSU Board of Supervisors, correspondence, and testimony primarily related to the "Louisiana Scandals," 1938-1944; lists of gubernatorial vote by parish, Louisiana senators and representatives elected, and Dore's letters to those elected; and newspapers including the 1948 acts of the Louisiana Legislature and 1949 appointments by the Evangeline Parish School Board.

Approximately 1,900 items.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6825517

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana. Court of Appeal (1st Circuit)

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