Papers and scrapbooks, 1865,1951.

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Papers and scrapbooks, 1865,1951.

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Papers, 1865-1937, include: correspondence (5 p.) from Clapp, Pontiac (Mich.), to the Burlington Liars Club, telling a tall tale about Paul Bunyan and how the Great Lakes and Mississippi and Missouri rivers were formed. This letter won him a lifetime membership in the club. Also included is a certified copy of "an Act to change the names of James Wilson, of the Township of Lyon, Oakland County, Mich., to James Wilson Clapp, Feb. 5, 1901, signed and sealed by Charles S. Pierce, Deputy Secretary of State. Receipts (2) for Mich. Southern & Northern Indiana Railraod, 1865, and Holly, Wayne & Monroe Railway Co. (1868) are also included. Scrapbooks, 1922,1951, document national politics, political cartoons, issues, pictorials, and debt; the Democratic Party; Mich. and US economics; Mich. governors, government, and politics; the 1948 Presidential Election and presidential elections and campaigns in general; Thomas E. Dewey; Pontiac and Milford (Mich.) people and events; and Detroit (Mich.) and US history pictorials. The scrapbooks are extremely acidic and fragile and are flaking. The folder and an inventory are in Box 1.

13 Oversized v., 1 folder (in 4 flat boxes) : ill.

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Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Ha...

Democratic National Convention 1948 Philadelphia, Pa.

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Pierce, Charles S.

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Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway Company.

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Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company

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Burlington Liars Club (Mich.)

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Clapp, James A.

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