Angus Wilton McLean papers, 1910-1933 [manuscript].

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Angus Wilton McLean papers, 1910-1933 [manuscript].

"Letters from Prominent Men" (microfilm); nine scrapbooks of clippings pertaining to McLean's career; and a record, 1926, of appointments to office made by McLean as governor. "Letters from Prominent Men" consists of letters received by McLean between 1912 and 1933, selected from his correspondence and mounted in alphabetical order by name of writer in two volumes. A few of these letters discuss policies of the War Finance Corporation or Democratic Party politics; most of the letters express good wishes upon McLean's entering or leaving office, thanks for letters from McLean, or thanks for signed photographs of him. Writers of the letters include Josiah W. Bailey, Bernard Baruch, Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, William E. Dodd, Herbert Hoover, Claude Kitchin, Cameron Morrison, William G. McAdoo, Lee S. Overman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, F. M. Simmons, Alfred E. Smith, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.

12 v. (1.0 linear ft.).

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