Thomas James Walsh and John Edward Erickson papers, 1910-1934.
- 262,000 items. 510 containers. 4 microfilm reels. 204 linear feet.
- Part I arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Subject File A, circa 1913-1933; Series 2: Subject File B, circa 1913-1933; Series 3: Legislation File, circa 1913-1933; Series 4: General File, circa 1913-1932; Series 5: Political File, circa 1913-1932: Series 6: Personal Correspondence, circa 1910-1932; Series 7: Miscellany; Series 8: Scrapbooks, circa 1911-1933; and Series 9: Addition, 1930-1933. Part II arranged in 2 series. Series 1: Walsh Files, 1913-1933; and Series 2: Walsh and Erickson Files, 1922-1934.
Open to research.
Correspondence, speeches, legislative files, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the senatorial career of Walsh and his successor, John Edward Erickson. Consists primarily of legislative files pertaining to national issues such as farm legislation, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway route, National Council of Defense in World War I, pensions, political appointments, railway legislation, Russian famine relief, and war risk insurance. Includes material pertaining to the American Peace Society, League to Enforce Peace, Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), and World Peace League. Issues relating chiefly to Montana include farm loan associations, Indian affairs, pardons and paroles, oil and gas permits, land cases, Flathead River power sites, and the Sun River irrigation project. Correspondents include William Edgar Borah, Albert B. Fall, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Wesley Livsey Jones, Andrew W. Mellon, Gerald Prentice Nye, David Aiken Reed, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henrick Shipstead, Henry L. Stimson, Henry A. Wallace, and Ray L. Wilbur.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1992.
Some photographs Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. transferred to Music material Library of Congress Music Division. transferred to
U.S. senators from Montana: Thomas James Walsh served from 1913 to 1933 and John Edward Erickson served the remainder of Walsh's last term, 1933-1934.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013078
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Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940 --Correspondence. Fall, Albert B. 1861-1944 --Correspondence. Harding, Warren G. 1865-1923 --Correspondence. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 --Correspondence. Hoover, J. Edgar 1895-1972 --Correspondence. Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 --Correspondence. Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 --Correspondence. Ickes, Harold L. 1874-1952 --Correspondence. Jones, Wesley Livsey, 1863-1932 --Correspondence. Mellon, Andrew W. 1855-1937 --Correspondence. Nye, Gerald Prentice, 1892-1971 --Correspondence. Reed, David Aiken, 1880-1953 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 --Correspondence. Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 --Correspondence. Shipstead, Henrik, 1881-1960 --Correspondence. Stimson, Henry L. 1867-1950 --Correspondence. Wallace, Henry A. 1888-1965 --Correspondence. Wilbur, Ray L. 1875-1949 --Correspondence.
United States. Council of National Defense. American Peace Society. International Court of Justice. League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) Permanent Court of International Justice. World Peace League.
Agricultural credit--Montana. Agriculture--United States. Electric power--Montana. Famines--Russia. Food relief--Russia. Indians of North America--Government relations.--Montana Insurance--War risks. International law. Irrigation--Montana. Land tenure--Law and legislation--Montana. Pardon--Montana. Parole--Montana. Peace--Societies, etc. Pensions--United States. Petroleum industry and trade--Montana. Railroad law--United States. World War, 1914-1918.
Flathead River (B.C. and Mont.) Great Lakes (North America) Montana--Politics and government. Saint Lawrence Seaway. Sun River (Mont.) United States--Defenses. United States--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.