Thomas Watt Gregory papers, 1896-1933 (bulk 1919-1933).

By: Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsDescription: 8,000 items; 27 containers; 11.3 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Summary: Correspondence, memoranda, printed copies of speeches and writings, legal briefs, pleadings, and other papers relating to Gregory's service as U.S. attorney general and to his law practice in Washington, D.C., and Houston, Texas. Subjects include the Woodrow Wilson presidential administration; arming of merchant ships and procedures for dealing with enemy aliens during World War I; the Industrial Conference held in Washington, D.C., 1919-1920; and Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaign of 1932. Other subjects include Texas state politics, the University of Texas, Ku Klux Klan, and Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association. Includes legal case files pertaining to wartime seizure of the property of aliens, claims against Mexico, boundary disputes between Texas and Oklahoma, stockholders' suits against railroads, corporate tax and contract involving oil companies and railroads, and the settlement of estates.Summary: Correspondents include George Weston Anderson, Newton Diehl Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, R.L. Batts, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, William Jennings Bryan, Albert Sidney Burleson, Carrie Chapman Catt, Tom Connally, Josephus Daniels, John W. Davis, John Nance Garner, William Hitz, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Louis M. Howe, Robert Lansing, Thomas R. Marshall, Earle Bradford Mayfield, W.G. McAdoo, James Clark McReynolds, William D. Mitchell, Daniel James Moody, A. Mitchell Palmer, Key Pittman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles Seymour, Morris Sheppard, George Carroll Todd, Willis Van Devanter, Thomas James Walsh, Edward Douglass White, George W. Wickersham, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.
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Correspondence, memoranda, printed copies of speeches and writings, legal briefs, pleadings, and other papers relating to Gregory's service as U.S. attorney general and to his law practice in Washington, D.C., and Houston, Texas. Subjects include the Woodrow Wilson presidential administration; arming of merchant ships and procedures for dealing with enemy aliens during World War I; the Industrial Conference held in Washington, D.C., 1919-1920; and Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaign of 1932. Other subjects include Texas state politics, the University of Texas, Ku Klux Klan, and Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association. Includes legal case files pertaining to wartime seizure of the property of aliens, claims against Mexico, boundary disputes between Texas and Oklahoma, stockholders' suits against railroads, corporate tax and contract involving oil companies and railroads, and the settlement of estates.

Correspondents include George Weston Anderson, Newton Diehl Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, R.L. Batts, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, William Jennings Bryan, Albert Sidney Burleson, Carrie Chapman Catt, Tom Connally, Josephus Daniels, John W. Davis, John Nance Garner, William Hitz, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Louis M. Howe, Robert Lansing, Thomas R. Marshall, Earle Bradford Mayfield, W.G. McAdoo, James Clark McReynolds, William D. Mitchell, Daniel James Moody, A. Mitchell Palmer, Key Pittman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles Seymour, Morris Sheppard, George Carroll Todd, Willis Van Devanter, Thomas James Walsh, Edward Douglass White, George W. Wickersham, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.

U.S. attorney general, regent of the University of Texas, and lawyer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012037

Card index to the correspondence available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

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