12174cpcaa2201585 a 4500 mm 79013698 DLC 20260227111654.0 cr ||||||||||| 800229|||||||||||| eng mm 79013698 ms 80002033 su 79013698 DLC DLC dacs DLC W lcmd Breckinridge family papers, 1752-1965. 205,000 items. 871 containers plus 2 oversize. 37 microfilm reels. 263 linear feet. Arranged in 11 series. Series 1: Breckinridge Family Papers, 1752-1904; Series 2: Henry Breckinridge Papers, 1909-1954; Series 3: Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Papers, 1844-1909; Series 4: Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge Papers, 1895-1921; Series 5: Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Papers, 1807-1871; Series 6: Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Papers, 1873-1949; Series 7: William C.P. Breckinridge Papers, 1851-1904; Series 8: Mary Desha Papers, 1892-1910; Series 9: Other Family Papers, 1779-1965; Series 10: Addition, 1816-1980; and Series 11: Oversize, 1781-1912. 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. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997003 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. Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky. Attorney General's Office. Kentucky. General Assembly. United States. Army. 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. Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes, 1846-1932. Clifton Rodes Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, Desha, 1867-1935. Desha Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960. Henry Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, John, 1760-1806. John Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875. John C. Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell, 1842-1920. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, Katherine Carson. Katherine Carson Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, 1872-1920. Madeline McDowell Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871. Robert J. Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, 1866-1948. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge papers. Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904. William Campbell Preston Breckinridge papers. Desha, Mary, 1850-1911. Mary Desha papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997003 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997003.3 42136 42136