Papers, 1842-1963.

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Papers, 1842-1963.

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Bound volumes, correspondence, scrapbooks, and clippings detailing Langston's activities as a Trinity College (later became Duke University) student, U.S. Army colonel, assistant to General Lewis B. Hershey on the Selective Service Board and service on General E.H. Crowder's draft board in Washington, D.C. during WWI, supporter of Prohibition, and opponent of Al Smith in the N.C. Democratic primary in 1928. Later additions to the collection document earlier Langston family history, Colonel Langston's poems and correspondence with Professor Edwin Mims about them, a scrapbook of the Simmons-Bailey campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1930, and his correspondence with New York attorney Roscoe S. Conkling concerning Langston's opposition to compulsory military service during peace time.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Langston, John D. (John Dallas), 1881-1963

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Simmons, Furnifold M. (Furnifold McLendel), 1854-1940

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Mims, Edwin, 1872-1959

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Crowder, E. H. (Enoch Herbert), 1859-1932

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Conkling, Roscoe S. (Roscoe Seely), 1884-1956

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