Tasker Lowndes Oddie papers, 1910-1944.

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Tasker Lowndes Oddie papers, 1910-1944.

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Chiefly correspondence and other papers detailing Oddie's service in the U.S. Senate (1921-1933); together with papers from his term as governor (1911-1915), and papers relating to his mining interests.

64 boxes.

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United States. Congress. Senate

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Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950

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Tasker Oddie was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 24, 1870 and came to Nevada to look after the business interests of his New York employer, the prominent and wealthy Stokes family. He became a member of the Nevada Bar in 1898 and served as district attorney for Nye County. During the Tonopah mining boom at the turn of the century he became the manager of the Tonopah Mining Company. After his term as governor, Oddie was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1920 and re-elected in 1926. He died in S...