Papers, 1902-1963, bulk 1939-1956.

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Papers, 1902-1963, bulk 1939-1956.

General personal correspondence, 1935-1956, notes and clippings; notebooks and mimeographed graduate studies and teaching material; drafts for speeches; correspondence with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Senators Harry F. Byrd and Carter Glass concerning appointment to the federal bench; records, briefs and correspondence, primarily with Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper, about court cases, 1948-1956; notebooks concerning the U.S. Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure, 1936-1937, and a committee studying the jury system, 1960.

15 boxes (6.5 linear ft.)

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1881. Educated at the University of Virginia and Harvard University. Taught law at the University of Virginia, 1907-1939; dean of the School of Law, 1932-1939. Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1939; Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1940-1956. Died in 1962. From the description of Papers, 1902-1963, bulk 1939-1956. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 704076515 Born...

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Glass, Carter, 1858-1946

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Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on 4 January 1858. Member of Virginia State Senate, 1898-1906; member of U.S. House of Representatives. 1902-1918; Secretary of the Treasury, 1918-1920, Member of U.S. Senate, 1920-1946. Died in Washington, D.C. on 28 May 1946. From the description of Letter : from Horace Mann Towner, 1925 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122701025 Virginia statesman; Secretary of the Treasury. From the description of Letter, 1933 February, Uni...

Soper, Morris Ames, 1873-1963

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Parker, John Johnston, 1885-1958

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