William Edgar Borah papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 880
Subjects: Correspondence; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; Treaty of Lausanne; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); United States. National Recovery Administration; League of Nations; Presidents; Land use; Peace; New Deal, 1933-1939; Permanent Court of International Justice; Politics and government; Neutrality; Election; Presidential candidates; Economic policy; Political Patronage; United States; United States. Congress. Senate; Foreign relations; Antitrust law
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, subject and legislative files, speeches and articles, patronage and constituent files, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and other material relating primarily to Borah's political interests and career in the U.S. Senate.  The papers document the principal issues of politics and foreign and domestic policy during the period 1912-1940, especially antitrust legislation, League of Nations and World Court, isolationism, foreign relations with the Soviet Union, land utilization, New Deal and National Recovery Administration, Sino-Japanese War, Lausanne treaty settlement, neutrality legislation, and outlawry of war.  Also includes material on Idaho politics and and a 1936 attempt to secure Borah the Republican presidential nomination.

Correspondents include Jane Addams, Edwin Montefiore Borchard, Henry M. Dawes, Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, Hamilton Fish, Samuel Gompers, Norman Hapgood, Will H. Hays, John Haynes Holmes, James Weldon Johnson, Frank B. Kellogg, Frank Knox, Henry Cabot Lodge, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Raymond Robins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Joseph Walsh, William Allen White, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mary McConnell Borah, 1940.

Lawyer and U.S. senator from Idaho.

Collection material in English.

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