Irvine Luther Lenroot papers, 1858-1971 (bulk 1900-1944).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 10,000 items; 33 containers, plus 1 oversize; 13.2 linear feetSubject(s): - Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 -- Correspondence
- Crownhart, Charles Henry, 1863-1930 -- Correspondence
- Dougherty, William H. -- Correspondence
- Ekern, Herman Lewis, 1872-1954 -- Correspondence
- Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 -- Correspondence
- Hannan, John J., 1866-1946 -- Correspondence
- Hard, William, 1878-1962 -- Correspondence
- Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 -- Correspondence
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 -- Correspondence
- Kohler, Walter Jodok, 1875-1940 -- Correspondence
- La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925
- La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925 -- Correspondence
- Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 -- Correspondence
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 -- Correspondence
- Rogers, Alfred Thomas, 1873-1948 -- Correspondence
- Sullivan, Mark, 1874-1952 -- Correspondence
- Clough family
- Lenroot family
- United States. Congress
- Wisconsin. Legislature
- Political campaigns -- United States
- Political campaigns -- Wisconsin
- Political parties -- Wisconsin
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government -- 1848-1950
- Jurists
- Lawyers
- Representatives, U.S. Congress -- Wisconsin
- Senators, U.S. Congress -- Wisconsin
Open to research.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, articles, political and subject files, legal records, biographical material, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Lenroot's political campaigns and service as a Wisconsin state legislator and U.S. representative and senator; role in the Wisconsin Progressive movement; association with Robert M. La Follette; and relationship with national political leaders. Includes holograph notebooks concerning his congressional career and a typescript draft of his unpublished memoirs (1948). Papers of the Clough and Lenroot families include correspondence, genealogical material, and diaries and writings of Lenroot's wife, Clara Clough Lenroot. Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Charles Henry Crownhart, William H. Dougherty, Herman Lewis Ekern, Guy Despard Goff, John J. Hannan, William Hard, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Walter Jodok Kohler, Robert M. La Follette, Henry Cabot Lodge, Gifford Pinchot, Alfred Thomas Rogers, and Mark Sullivan.
Jurist, lawyer, and U.S. representative and senator from Wisconsin.
Collection material in English.
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