Crane, Martin McNulty, papers, 1834-1973.

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Crane, Martin McNulty, papers, 1834-1973.

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The collection consists of politically-oriented correspondence of Crane, a leading progressive Democrat, dealing with his anti-trust suit against the Waters-Pierce Oil Company as Texas attorney general, his campaign to remove Joseph Weldon Bailey from the U.S. Senate, his support of Woodrow Wilson at the Democratic convention of 1912, his role as counsel for the Texas legislature in the impeachment trial of Texas governor James E. Ferguson, and his leadership of the anti-Ku Klux Klan movement in the 1920s.

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