Victor Murdock papers, 1824-1971 (bulk 1909-1940).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 38,300 items; 129 containers plus 1 oversize; 51.6 linear feetSubject(s): - Allen, Henry Justin, 1868-1950 -- Correspondence
- Ayres, William Augustus, 1867-1952 -- Correspondence
- Bristow, Joseph L. (Joseph Little), 1861-1944 -- Correspondence
- Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
- Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 -- Correspondence
- Collier, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1876-1918 -- Correspondence
- Colver, William B. -- Correspondence
- Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 -- Correspondence
- Davis, Jonathan McMillan, 1871-1943 -- Correspondence
- Dolley, J. N. -- Correspondence
- Fort, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1852-1920 -- Correspondence
- Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937 -- Correspondence
- Haskell, Henry Joseph, 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Howe, Frederic C., 1867-1940 -- Correspondence
- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 -- Correspondence
- Leahy, David D. -- Correspondence
- Mason, Walt, 1862-1939 -- Correspondence
- Noble, John, 1874-1934 -- Correspondence
- Norris, George William, 1861-1944 -- Correspondence
- Phillips, John S. (John Sanburn), 1861-1949 -- Correspondence
- Reed, Clyde Martin, 1871-1949 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Shouse, Jouett, 1879-1968 -- Correspondence
- Stubbs, Walter Roscoe, 1858-1929 -- Correspondence
- Sullivan, Mark, 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Thompson, Huston -- Correspondence
- White, William Allen, 1868-1944 -- Correspondence
- Murdoch family
- United States. Congress. House
- United States. Congress. House -- Speakers
- United States. Federal Trade Commission
- Progressive Party (1912)
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
- Wichita daily eagle
- American newspapers -- Kansas -- Wichita
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1912
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Trade regulation -- United States
- Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953
- Editors
- Representatives, U.S. Congress -- Kansas
Open to research.
Correspondence, memoranda, diary, speeches, writings, reports, subject files, printed matter, and other papers documenting Murdock's political career as a U.S. congressman from Kansas and his leadership of the Republican "insurgents" who contested the power of House Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon in 1910. Includes material concerning Murdock's involvement in Kansas state and local politics, activities on behalf of the Progressive Party during Theodore Roosevelt's presidential campaign of 1912 and as chairman of the Progressive Party's national committee (1915-1916), and service as a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Murdock (Murdoch) family papers include correspondence and other papers of Murdock's father, Marshall M. Murdock, as senator in the early Kansas legislature and founder of the Wichita Daily Eagle, and of his brother, Marcellus M. Murdock as publisher of the Wichita Daily Eagle.
Correspondents include Henry Justin Allen, William Augustus Ayres, Joseph L. Bristow, Arthur Capper, Robert J. Collier, William B. Colver, Josephus Daniels, Jonathan McMillan Davis, J.N. Dolley, J. Franklin Fort, Norman Hapgood, Henry Joseph Haskell, Frederic Clemson Howe, Alfred M. Landon, David D. Leahy, Walt Mason, John Noble, George William Norris, John S. Phillips, Clyde Martin Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, Jouett Shouse, Walter Roscoe Stubbs, Mark Sullivan, Huston Thompson, and William Allen White.
U.S. representative from Kansas and newspaper editor. Born, 1871; died, 1945.
Collection material in English.
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