10935cpcaa2201489 a 4500 mm 78042234 DLC 20260227111626.0 cr ||||||||||| 790419|||||||||||| eng mm 78042234 ms 62004597 su 78042234 DLC DLC DLC dacs R lcmd Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930. William H. Taft papers, 1784-1973 (bulk 1880-1930). 676,000 items. 1,562 containers plus 8 oversize. 902.5 linear feet. 658 microfilm reels. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Correspondence including 219 volumes of letterpress books (1890-1920), speeches and addresses, presidential and judicial files, legal papers and notebooks, family papers and letters, business and estate papers, engagement calendars, guest lists, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and photographs documenting Taft's career as U.S. solicitor general (1890-1892), U.S. circuit court judge (1892-1900), president of the U.S. Philippine Commission (1900-1901), governor of the Philippines (1901-1904), secretary of war in Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet (1904-1908), president of the United States (1909-1913), professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School (1913-1921), and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Also documents Taft's service as president of the American Bar Association (1913), president of the League to Enforce Peace (1915), and member and cochairman of the National War Labor Board (1918-1919). Family members respresented include Taft's father, Alphonso Taft, U.S. secretary of war (1876), attorney general (1876-1877), and minister to Austria-Hungary (1882-1884) and to Russia (1884-1885); his mother, Louise Maria Torrey Taft, civic leader and advocate of the kindergarten movement; his wife, Helen Herron Taft; and his aunt, feminist Delia C. Torrey. Correspondence among these and other Taft family members reflects social and intellectual life in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also includes desk diaries and other papers of President Taft's private secretary, Fred W. Carpenter. Correspondents include Nelson W. Aldrich, Chester Alan Arthur, Robert Bacon, Richard Achilles Ballinger, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Mabel Thorp Boardman, Joseph L. Bristow, Viscount James Bryce, Nicholas Murray Butler, Archibald Willingham Butt, Joseph Gurney Cannon, George B. Cortelyou, Charles Curtis, John A. Dix, Charles W. Fairbanks, John Hays Hammond, Myron T. Herrick, Charles Evans Hughes, Robert Underwood Johnson, Walter H. Johnson, Frank B. Kellogg, Philander C. Knox, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, William H. Moody, Francis G. Newlands, Charles Dyer Norton, John J. Pershing, Gifford Pinchot, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, J. S. Sherman, Henry Lewis Stimson, Nathan Straus, Oscar S. Straus, Robert A. Taft, Willis Van Devanter, Booker T. Washington, Edward Douglass White, George W. Wickersham, James Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, and Luke E. Wright. Microfilm edition available for series 1-26, no. 15,535. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1972. President of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009245 Six volume index published by the Library of Congress in 1972 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Cataloged in record 70608096. Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915 Correspondence. Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886 Correspondence. Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919 Correspondence. Ballinger, Richard Achilles, 1858-1922 Correspondence. Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927 Correspondence. Boardman, Mabel Thorp, 1860-1946 Correspondence. Bristow, Joseph L. (Joseph Little), 1861-1944 Correspondence. Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922 Correspondence. Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 Correspondence. Butt, Archibald Willingham, 1866-1912 Correspondence. Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926 Correspondence. Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940 Correspondence. Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936 Correspondence. Dix, John A. (John Alden), 1860-1928 Correspondence. Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918 Correspondence. Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936 Correspondence. Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy), 1854-1929 Correspondence. Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 Correspondence. Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 Correspondence. Johnson, Walter H., b. 1848 Correspondence. Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings), 1856-1937 Correspondence. Knox, Philander C. (Philander Chase), 1853-1921 Correspondence. Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 Correspondence. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 Correspondence. Moody, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1917 Correspondence. Newlands, Francis G. (Francis Griffith), 1848-1917 Correspondence. Norton, Charles Dyer, 1871-1922 Correspondence. Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 Correspondence. Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Correspondence. Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 Correspondence. Sherman, J. S. (James Schoolcraft), 1855-1912 Correspondence. Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950 Correspondence. Straus, Nathan, 1848-1931 Correspondence. Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926 Correspondence. Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953 Correspondence. Van Devanter, Willis, 1859-1941 Correspondence. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Correspondence. White, Edward Douglass, 1845-1921 Correspondence. Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-1936 Correspondence. Wilson, James, 1835-1920 Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Correspondence. Wright, Luke E. (Luke Edward), 1846-1922 Correspondence. Taft family Correspondence. American Bar Association. League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Attorney General. United States. National War Labor Board (1918-1919) United States. Philippine Commission (1900-1916) United States. Solicitor General. United States. Supreme Court. United States. War Dept. Yale Law School Faculty. Circuit courts United States. Constitutional law United States. Constitutional law Study and teaching. Diplomatic and consular service, American Austria. Diplomatic and consular service, American Russia. Feminism. Kindergarten United States. Law United States. Austria Foreign relations United States. Philippines Politics and government 1898-1935. Russia Foreign relations United States. United States Foreign relations Austria. United States Foreign relations Russia. United States Intellectual life 1865-1918. United States Politics and government 1901-1909. United States Politics and government 1909-1913. United States Social life and customs 1865-1918. Jurists. itoamc Presidents United States. itoamc Carpenter, Fred W., 1873 or 4-1957 Fred W. Carpenter papers. Taft, Alphonso, 1810-1891. Alphonso Taft papers. Taft, Louise Maria Torrey, 1827-1907. Louise Maria Torrey Taft papers. Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943. Helen Herron Taft papers. Torrey, Delia C. Delia C. Torrey papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009245 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009245.3 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 1 (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101201001wi.1 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 1 (Page view) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101201001wi.2 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 2 (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101201002wi.1 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 2 (Page view) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101201002wi.2 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 3 (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101201003wi.1 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 3 (Page view) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101201003wi.2 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. Volume 4 (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101202001wi.1 Index to the William Howard Taft papers. 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