Papers 1936-1954.

Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977

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Lewis Blaine Hershey (September 12, 1893 – May 20, 1977) was the Director of the Selective Service System of the United States. An Indiana native, Hershey joined the National Guard in 1911. His unit served at the Mexican border in 1916. After World War I, he moved to the Army and became a captain in 1920. He also taught military science at Ohio State University and, as a active volunteer, earned several prestigious Scouting awards. In 1936, he was made secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Selec...

Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977

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Frances Payne Bingham Bolton (March 29, 1885 – March 9, 1977) was a Republican politician from Ohio. She served in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio. In the late 1930s Bolton took an isolationist position on foreign policy, opposing the Selective Service Act (the draft) in 1940, and opposing Lend-Lease in 1941. During the war she called for desegregation of the military nursing units, which were all-white and all-female. In 1947 she...

United States. Congress. House

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U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house of Congress. From the guide to the Subscription lists, 1870, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The first session of the Congress of the United States, under a resolution passed by the Congress of the Confederation, on September 13, 1788, was called to meet in New York City on March 4, 1789. On the appointed day only 13 Members of the House were present and, as this number did not constitute a quorum, the sessions...

Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987

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Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician from the Republican Party. He served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was the Republican Party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt who won the electoral college vote 523 to 8. Born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, Landon spent most of his childhood in Marietta, Ohio before moving to Kansa...

Chester, C. W.

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Murray, Tom, 1894-1971

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Rees, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1886-1969

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Brown, Paul.

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Paul Brown is a Queensland poet. From the description of OM90-130 Paul Brown Poetry, ca. 1990. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 755715771 ...

Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966

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Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Maritn Dalton. he received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary as well as his law degree. Dalton was Commonwealth's Attorney for Radford, Virginia and state senator from 1944-1960. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor in 1953 and 1957. Dalton was appointed federal judge for the Western District of Virginia. His adopted son was John N. Dalton who served as governor of...

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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The Republican Party is a national political party in the United States, and was founded in 1854. In the 1864 election, the party took the name National Union Party to allow the participation of Democrats. From the description of Republican Party tickets, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 496362231 From the guide to the Republican Party tickets, 1864, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Eccles, M. S.

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Hull, Cordell

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Epithet: US Sec of State British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0002ed ...

Wells, Sumner.

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Nicholson, Donald William.

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Murray, Philip, 1924-

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American poet and teacher. From the description of Philip Murray collection, 1961-1967. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969122 ...

Buffet, Howard Homan.

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Spence, Brent, 1874-1967

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Legislator, Lawyer. Spence was born in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky and was elected as a democrat to represent the old sixth district of Kentucky in the 72nd Congress in 1930. He was reelected for sixteen consecutive terms, serving until his retirement in 1962. In 1943 Spence became chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, an office he held until his retirement, except during the republican controlled 80th and 83rd Congresses, when he was ranking minority member of the...

Lawrence, J. S.

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Black, Eugene R. (Eugene Robert), 1898-

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Banker. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Robert Black : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158077 Eugene Robert Black (b. 1898), banker, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) from 1949-1963, and international economic advisor. From the description of Eugene R. Black papers, 1917-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477252 ...

McKenna, Phillip.

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Martin, Joseph William, Reverend; Rector of Keston, county Kent

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Epithet: Reverend; Rector of Keston, county Kent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x0000f4 ...

Smith, Frederick C. (Frederick Cleveland), 1884-1956

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Bolton, Charles Castle.

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Scott, Hugh

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Epithet: of Add MS 35534 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x000044 ...

Jones, Jesse.

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Kaiser, Henry J., 1882-1967

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Biographical Chronology 1882 Henry John Kaiser born in Sprout Brook (near Canajoharie), New York, on May 9, son of Francis J. and Mary Yops Kaiser, German immigrants. 1895 Left school at age 13, to help support his parents and three sisters, by working in a dry goods store in ...

Reed, Daniel A. (Daniel Alden), 1875-1959

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Congressman. From the description of Papers, 1893-1976, 1905-1976 (bulk). (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155439242 Lawyer. Daniel Alden Reed received an LL.B. from Cornell University in 1898 and became a lawyer in Dunkirk, New York, 1900-1903; attorney for New York State Excise Department, 1903-1907; football coach at Cornell University, 1909-1918; member, Special Food Conservation Mission to France and England, 1918-1919;...

United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Snell, Bertrand Hollis, 1870-1958

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Clifford Kennedy Berryman, cartoonist of the Washington, D.C. papers the WASHINGTON POST and WASHINGTON EVENING STAR, was the originator of the "teddy bear." From the description of Photographs, cartoons, and certificates, 1885-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510007 Congressman. Snell was born in Colton, N.Y., and graduated from Potsdam State Normal School, 1889. He was the Republican congressman from the area, 1915-1939, and was known as the...

Hall, Leonard W. (Leonard Wood), 1900-1979

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Politician. From the description of Reminiscences of Leonard Hall : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597871 From the description of Reminiscences of Leonard Hall : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86100440 ...

Rich, Robert Fleming.

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Collins, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1861-

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Green, William Spotswood, 1847-

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Stassen, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1907-2001

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Lawyer; governor. From the description of Reminiscences of Harold Edward Stassen : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513413 American politician. From the description of Letter, 1945 April 30, San Francisco, to Helen M. Taft, Mendon, Mass. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953452 Stassen was born in Minnesota in 1907. His political career began in 1930 when he was elected as Dakota County at...