Colonel William M. Connor papers [manuscript], 1908-1949.

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Colonel William M. Connor papers [manuscript], 1908-1949.

1908-1949

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u3794784

Letters and papers, 1920-1949, of Colonel William M. Connor, U.S.A. Retired, a former member of the Judge Advocate General's Department. The papers include studies of various phases of military law; transcripts of court cases, the courts-marital controvery and revision, manuscript card notes dealing with military law; note and clipping books; and his observations on Cuba, 1920-1921, and Manila and Moro Provice, Phillipine Islands, 1912-1918. Correspondents include Walter P. Armstrong, Lt. Col. A. B. Butts, James F. Byrnes, General Enoch H. Crowder, Hamilton Fish, Garrard Glenn, William Lile Minor, Roscoe Pound, J.S. Powell, Benjamin R. Tillman, and Daniel R. Williams. Additional papers, 1920-1921, of Major Connor, chiefly copies of documents relating to Cuba, and including reports by General Enoch H. Crowder to the Secretary of State, drafts of bills by Cuban Senator Cosme de la Torriento to relieve Cuba's finances. Letters, cases, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of William M. Connor, 1908-1945, acquired while serving as attorney for Moro Province and of the Cith of Manila. Miscellaneous material on military justice and specific courts-martial.

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