Robert Wickliffe Woolley papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17000
Subjects: Correspondence; World War, 1914-1918; United States. Interstate Commerce Commission; Transportation; Commerce; Politics and government; Railroads; Interstate commerce; Elections; United States; Fuel consumption; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce; Railroads and state; Democratic Party (U.S.); Energy policy
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, unpublished autobiography, reports, speeches, articles, subject files, financial records, family papers, genealogical material, clippings, printed material, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Woolley's work organizing party publicity for the Democratic political campaigns of 1912, 1916, and 1920; and to his work as a member of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission, 1917-1921.  Subjects include fuel economy, national political affairs, regulation of railroads during and after World War I, and U.S. Senate's Committee on Interstate Commerce inquiries.  Correspondents include Alben William Barkley, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Desha Breckinridge, James M. Cox, Josephus Daniels, Edward Mandell House, William Gibbs McAdoo, George Foster Peabody, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

In part, photostats reproduced from originals in private hands. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1952.

Private

Gift, Robert Wickliffe Woolley, 1951.

Gift, Marguerite Trenholm Woolley, 1959.

Gift, Mrs. Clarence List, 1977.

Purchase; reproduced with permission, Robert Wickliffe Woolley, 1952.

Journalist, politician, and public official.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid published by the Library of Congress, 1960