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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Willis Van Devanter papers, 1884-1941</title>
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    <namePart>Van Devanter, Willis</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1859-1941</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, letterbooks, legal records and briefs, speeches, lectures, and scrapbooks.  Topics include Van Devanter's Cheyenne, Wyo., law practice, Wyoming and Republican Party politics, the 1896 election, Indian affairs, western land policy, and his service (1910-1937) as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Correspondents include Elmer B. Adams, Charles Fremont Amidon, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Pierce Butler, A.C. Campbell, Joseph M. Carey, Clarence D. Clark, John H. Clarke, William R. Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William C. Hook, Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg, John W. Lacey, Frank W. Mondell, John Finis Philips, John C. Pollock, William A. Richards, John A. Riner, William Velpeau Rooker, Edward Terry Sanford, Harlan Fiske Stone, William H. Taft, Luther M. Walter, Francis E. Warren, and Sylvester G. Williams.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, jurist, and Supreme Court justice.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Adams, Elmer B. (Elmer Bragg)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Amidon, Charles Fremont</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1937</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brandeis, Louis Dembitz</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1941</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Butler, Pierce</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1939</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Campbell, A. C. (Archibald Colin)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carey, Joseph M. (Joseph Maull)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clark, Clarence D. (Clarence Don)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clarke, John H. (John Hessin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Day, William R. (William Rufus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1923</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holmes, Oliver Wendell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hook, William C. (William Cather)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1921</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hughes, Charles Evans</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1937</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lacey, John W. (John Wesley)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1936</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mondell, Frank W. (Frank Wheeler)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1939</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Philips, John Finis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pollock, John C</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Richards, William A. (William Alford)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1912</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Riner, John A. (John Alden)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1923</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rooker, William Velpeau</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1860-1934</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sanford, Edward Terry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stone, Harlan Fiske</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Walter, Luther M. (Luther Mason)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Warren, Francis E. (Francis Emroy)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1844-1929</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Williams, Sylvester G</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-  )</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Supreme Court.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Constitutional law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Elections</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <temporal>1896</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Government relations</topic>
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    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Wyoming</geographic>
    <geographic>Cheyenne</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Public lands</topic>
    <geographic>West (U.S.)</geographic>
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    <topic>History</topic>
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    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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