Samuel McGowan papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2000
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; United States. Navy. Supply Corps; Supplies and stores; Regulations; World War, 1914-1918; United States. Navy
Description: Correspondence, orders to duty, subject file, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to McGowan's duties as paymaster general, U.S. Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (Supply Corps), and to his interest in changing naval regulations he regarded as discriminatory.  Includes material pertaining to his service during World War I.  Correspondents include Philip Andrews, Bernard M. Baruch, Charles J. Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson Cowie, Josephus Daniels, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin R. Tillman, Woodrow Wilson, and McGowan family members.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1968.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.