04544cpcaa2200685 4500 mm 78017913 DLC 20260227111623.0 cr ||||||||||| 780810|||||||||||| eng mm 78017913 ms 59000047 DLC dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Davis, James J. (James John), 1873-1947. James J. Davis papers, 1895-1946 (bulk 1921-1945). 13,000 items. 56 containers plus 3 oversize. 22.4 linear feet. Arranged in 13 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1922-1945; Series 2: Loyal Order of Moose Correspondence, 1930-1940; Series 3: Patronage Correspondence, 1931-1939; Series 4: Political Correspondence, 1929-1944; Series 5: Family Correspondence, 1943-1946; Series 6: Special File, 1930-1945; Series 7: Financial File, 1920-1945; Series 8: Book File, 1941; Series 9: Speeches and Articles, 1921-1946; Series 10: Scrapbooks and Personal Miscellany, 1921-1942; Series 11: Printed Matter: 1920-1945; Series 12: Photographs and Cartoons, 1895-1946; and Series 13: Oversize, 1895-1946. 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 Includes a draft of Davis's unpublished manuscript titled, The History of Strikes.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. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011201 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. itoamc Senators, U.S. Congress Pennsylvania. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011201 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011201.3 39820 39820