Papers of Homer S. Cummings, 1886-1956.

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Papers of Homer S. Cummings, 1886-1956.

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The collection contains both personal and political papers of Cummings. The former contains the correspondence and financial papers, particularly estate settlement papers, of Cummings and his mother Audie Schuyler Stillé Cummings, his son Dickinson Schuyler Cummings, and his wives Helen W. Smith Cummings, Marguerite T. Owings Cummings, May Cecelia Waterbury Cummings, and Julia N. Alter Cummings. Papers of Cummings as Attorney-General consist of correspondence, case files, circulars and press releases, and deal with Justice Department policy, crime prevention and the criminal justice system, national politics, New Deal legislation, international affairs, particularly in Latin America and the Philippines, war preparedness, cases argued before the Supreme Court, and especially judicial reorganization or court-packing. Correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt discusses most of these subjects and there are also speeches and articles pertaining to them. Of great interest in the collection are Cummings' diaries, 1919-1956, recording his daily activities and containing comments on personalities, politics and government in the Roosevelt administration. Papers regarding Cumming' four books are included : "Liberty under law and administration," "The biography of a department," "The selected letters of Homer Cummings, 1930-1941," edited by Carl B. Swisher, and especiall "Federal justice," written with Carl McFarland. Major or well known correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society, Alben W. Barkley, William, Benton, Hugo L. Black, Gutzon Borglum, Chester Bowles, Spruilla Braden, William Jennings Bryan, Thomas C. Clark, Hawaiian judge James L. Coke, George H. Combs, Courtney R. Cooper, Josephus Daniels, Joseph E. Davies, ambassador to Czechoslovakia Lewis Einstein, James A. Farley, and the Federal Bar Association Legislative Committee.

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