Breckinridge family papers, 1752-1965.
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Mixed materialsDescription: 205,000 items; 871 containers plus 2 oversize; 37 microfilm reels; 263 linear feetSubject(s): - Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 -- Correspondence
- Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930 -- Correspondence
- Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence
- Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876 -- Correspondence
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 -- Correspondence
- Church, William Conant, 1836-1917 -- Correspondence
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 -- Correspondence
- Condon, John F. (John Francis), 1860-1945 -- Correspondence
- Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980 -- Correspondence
- Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 -- Correspondence
- Funk, Antoinette, d. 1942 -- Correspondence
- Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917 -- Correspondence
- Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935 -- Correspondence
- Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974 -- Correspondence
- Guthrie, James, 1792-1869 -- Correspondence
- Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911 -- Correspondence
- Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 -- Correspondence
- Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919 -- Correspondence
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 -- Correspondence
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Tom Loftin, 1854-1911 -- Correspondence
- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 -- Correspondence
- Lawton, Henry Ware, 1843-1899 -- Correspondence
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 -- Correspondence
- Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 1930-1932 -- Kidnapping, 1932
- Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 -- Correspondence
- McKinley, William, 1843-1901 -- Correspondence
- Madison, James, 1751-1836 -- Correspondence
- Marshall, John, 1755-1835 -- Correspondence
- Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 -- Correspondence
- Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850 -- Correspondence
- Monroe, James, 1758-1831 -- Correspondence
- Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 -- Correspondence
- Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 -- Correspondence
- Porter, Horace, 1837-1921 -- Correspondence
- Procopé, Hjalmar Johan Fredrik, 1889-1954 -- Correspondence
- Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924 -- Correspondence
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 -- Correspondence
- Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 -- Correspondence
- Shouse, Jouett, 1879-1968 -- Correspondence
- Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944 -- Correspondence
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914 -- Correspondence
- Straus, Oscar, 1870-1954 -- Correspondence
- Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953 -- Correspondence
- Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1846-1926 -- Correspondence
- White, William Allen, 1868-1944 -- Correspondence
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Correspondence
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 -- Correspondence
- Breckinridge family
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- Kentucky. Attorney General's Office
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- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
- United States. Army. Office of the Inspector General
- United States. Attorney-General
- United States. Congress. House
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. War Dept
- Constitutional Party
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- Sons of the American Revolution
- Pan-American Conference (1933 : Montevideo, Uruguay)
- Lexington observer and reporter
- Alien and Sedition laws, 1798
- American Confederate voluntary exiles
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Russia
- Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798
- Practice of law -- Kentucky -- Lexington
- Practice of law -- New York (State) -- New York
- Presbyterian Church -- Clergy
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1936
- Social legislation -- Kentucky
- Social legislation -- United States
- Social service -- Kentucky
- Social service -- United States
- Women -- Suffrage
- Kentucky -- Politics and government -- 1792-1865
- Kentucky -- Politics and government -- 1865-1951
- Russia -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Microfilm edition available for the papers of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (containers 739-778), no. 18,291.
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various Breckinridge family members. Includes papers of John Breckinridge relating to his service as Kentucky attorney general and legislator, and U.S. attorney general and senator, and to the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799; papers of Robert J. Breckinridge relating chiefly to his ministry in the Presbyterian Church; papers of John C. Breckinridge relating primarily to his service as U.S. representative, his law practice in Lexington, Ky., and his voluntary exile following his service as a Confederate Army general; papers of William Campbell Preston Breckinridge relating to his law practice in Lexington, his Civil War service under Confederate Army General John Hunt Morgan, his editorship of the Lexington Observer and Reporter, and his work as U.S. representative from Kentucky; and papers of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge relating to his service in the Union Army and following the Civil War as Inspector General of the U.S. Army, and to his work in the Sons of the American Revolution.
Also includes papers of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge relating to his work as U.S. representative from Kentucky and as American minister to Russia; papers of Mary Desha relating primarily to the Daughters of the American Revolution; papers of Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge chiefly concerning her pioneering efforts in the field of social work and social legislation and her participation in the Pan-American Conference (1933); papers of Madeline McDowell Breckinridge of Lexington relating to her work on behalf of civic affairs, social reform, and women's suffrage at the local, state, and national level; and papers of Henry Breckinridge relating to his service as assistant secretary of war in President Wilson's administration, his World War I service with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, his law practice in New York, N.Y., his work as legal counsel in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from New York State as a member of the Constitutional Party (1934), and his entrance in 1936 into presidential preferential primaries in four states opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; and papers of Desha Breckinridge, Katherine Carson Breckinridge, and other family members.
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Henry T. Allen, Alben William Barkley, Braxton Bragg, Carrie Chapman Catt, William Conant Church, Grover Cleveland, John F. Condon, Harold W. Dodds, Jubal Anderson Early, Antoinette Funk, Edward Miner Gallaudet, A.W. Greely, Ernest Gruening, James Guthrie, John Marshall Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Hilary A. Herbert, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Loftin Johnson, Alfred M. Landon, H.W. Lawton, Robert E. Lee, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), William McKinley, James Madison, John Marshall, Nelson Appleton Miles, Samuel Miller, James Monroe, John Hunt Morgan, Frances Perkins, Horace Porter, Hjalmar Johna Fredrik Procopé, Redfield Proctor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, T.O. Selfridge, Anna Howard Shaw, Isaac Shelby, Jouett Shouse, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, Adlai E. Stevenson (1835-1914), Oscar Straus, Fred M. Vinson, James Wolcott Wadsworth, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, and Stephen Samuel Wise.
Microfilm edition available for the papers of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (containers 739-778), no. 18,291.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981.
Engravings, maps, photographs, sheet music, and other material transferred to appropriate divisions of the Library of Congress.
Family prominent in Kentucky and national politics and government.
Collection material in English.
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