Amos Pinchot papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Politics and government; League of Nations; New Deal, 1933-1939; Progressive Party (1912); Petroleum industry and trade; Elections; United States; Economic policy; War; Antitrust law; Correspondence; Labor disputes; Civil rights; Cooperative Housing; Railroads; United States. Supreme Court; Treaties; America First Committee; Practical Politics; Political science; Militarism
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, notebooks, articles, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers pertaining to Pinchot's career as a lawyer and reformer and to his interests in civil liberties, labor problems, government, and politics.  Subjects include the America First Committee, cooperative housing, League of Nations, opposition to militarism and war, National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, New Deal legislation, oil scandals, presidential campaigns from 1916 to 1940, Progressive Party, government ownership of railroads, Sherman anti-trust act, reorganization of the Supreme Court, and secret treaties.  Correspondents include William E. Borah, Louise Bryant, James Rudolph Garfield, Harold L. Ickes, William Kent, John Adams Kingsbury, Fiorello H. La Guardia, John L. Lewis, Gifford Pinchot, Ezra Pound, John Reed, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry L. Stimson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Ruth Pickering Pinchot, 1944-1953.

Gift, Mark Meyer, 1985.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Lawyer and publicist.

Collection material in English.

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