James Couzens papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32000
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Ford Motor Company; United States. Congress. Senate; United States; Farms; Automobile industry and trade; Agriculture
Description: Correspondence, articles, speeches, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Couzen's work with the Ford Motor Company (1903-1915), campaign for mayor of Detroit in 1918, service in the U.S. Senate (1922-1936), and farm near Pontiac, Mich.  Correspondents include James Francis Byrnes, Arthur Capper, John J. Carson, Roy D. Chapin, Charles E. Coughlin, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Joseph Edward Davies, Horace E. Dodge, John F. Dodge, Henry Ford, William Green, Edgar A. Guest, Herbert Hoover, Cordell Hull, Jesse H. Jones, Charles Horace Mayo, Frank Murphy, Herbert Bayard Swope, Arthur H. Vandenberg, and William H. Woodin.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, estate of James Couzens, 1955-1973.

Reproduced with permission, Madeline Kirk, 1984.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

U.S. senator from Michigan, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and industrialist.

Collection material in English.

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