TY  - GEN
AU  - Taft,William H.
AU  - Carpenter,Fred W.
AU  - Taft,Alphonso
AU  - Taft,Louise Maria Torrey
AU  - Taft,Helen Herron
AU  - Torrey,Delia C.
TI  - William H. Taft papers,
KW  - Aldrich, Nelson W.
KW  - Arthur, Chester Alan,
KW  - Bacon, Robert,
KW  - Ballinger, Richard Achilles,
KW  - Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah,
KW  - Boardman, Mabel Thorp,
KW  - Bristow, Joseph L.
KW  - Bryce, James Bryce,
KW  - Butler, Nicholas Murray,
KW  - Butt, Archibald Willingham,
KW  - Cannon, Joseph Gurney,
KW  - Cortelyou, George B.
KW  - Curtis, Charles,
KW  - Dix, John A.
KW  - Fairbanks, Charles W.
KW  - Hammond, John Hays,
KW  - Herrick, Myron T.
KW  - Hughes, Charles Evans,
KW  - Johnson, Robert Underwood,
KW  - Johnson, Walter H.,
KW  - Kellogg, Frank B.
KW  - Knox, Philander C.
KW  - Lincoln, Robert Todd,
KW  - Lodge, Henry Cabot,
KW  - Moody, William H.
KW  - Newlands, Francis G.
KW  - Norton, Charles Dyer,
KW  - Pershing, John J.
KW  - Pinchot, Gifford,
KW  - Reid, Whitelaw,
KW  - Roosevelt, Theodore,
KW  - Root, Elihu,
KW  - Sherman, J. S.
KW  - Stimson, Henry L.
KW  - Straus, Nathan,
KW  - Straus, Oscar S.
KW  - Taft, Robert A.
KW  - Van Devanter, Willis,
KW  - Washington, Booker T.,
KW  - White, Edward Douglass,
KW  - Wickersham, George W.
KW  - Wilson, James,
KW  - Wilson, Woodrow,
KW  - Wright, Luke E.
KW  - Taft family
KW  - American Bar Association
KW  - League to Enforce Peace (U.S.)
KW  - United States
KW  - Dept. of Justice
KW  - Office of the Attorney General
KW  - National War Labor Board (1918-1919)
KW  - Philippine Commission (1900-1916)
KW  - Solicitor General
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - War Dept
KW  - Yale Law School
KW  - Faculty
KW  - Circuit courts
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Austria
KW  - Russia
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Kindergarten
KW  - Law
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1898-1935
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 1865-1918
KW  - 1901-1909
KW  - 1909-1913
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Jurists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Presidents
N1  - Open to research; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material; 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
N2  - 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
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