James J. Davis papers, 1895-1946 (bulk 1921-1945).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 13,000 items; 56 containers plus 3 oversize; 22.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
- Davies, Rhys J. (Rhys John), 1877-1954 -- Correspondence
- Ferguson, Homer L. (Homer Lenoir), 1873-1953 -- Correspondence
- Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 -- Correspondence
- Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William), 1855-1937 -- Correspondence
- Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971
- United States. Congress -- Ethics
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Elections
- United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Senatorial Campaign Expenditures
- United States. Department of Labor
- Loyal Order of Moose
- Campaign funds -- Pennsylvania
- Fraternal organizations -- United States
- Governmental investigations -- United States
- Industrial relations -- United States
- Labor -- United States
- Lotteries -- United States
- Political campaigns -- United States
- Social security -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- United States
- Trials -- United States
- Unemployment -- United States
- Voluntarism -- United States
- Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
- United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1919-1933
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- Cabinet officers
- Senators, U.S. Congress -- Pennsylvania
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, investigation files, financial records, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to Davis's service as U.S. secretary of labor in the Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover presidential administrations; his tenure as U.S. senator from Pennsylvania; and as organizer and leader of the Loyal Order of Moose. Subjects include labor relations, political campaigns including Davis's senatorial campaign in 1931, unemployment, and social security. Also documents the 1931 investigation of Davis by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Senatorial Campaign Expenditures headed by Gerald P. Nye and the 1932 Loyal Order of Moose lottery trial, United States v. Davis. Includes a draft of Davis's unpublished manuscript titled, The History of Strikes. Correspondents include Rhys J. Davies, Homer L. Ferguson, Herbert Hoover, and Andrew W. Mellon.
U.S. secretary of labor and senator from Pennsylvania.
Collection material in English.
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