Richmond Pearson Hobson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27300
Subjects: Drug traffic; Naval architecture; Anti-saloon League of America; World War, 1914-1918; United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet; Lusitania (Steamship); Suffrage; World Narcotic Defense Association; Narcotics; Politics and government; Equipment; Economic conditions; Alcohol Education Society of America; World War, 1939-1945; Battleships; Temperance; Constitutional Democracy Association; Correspondence; Societies; Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Depressions; United States. National Prohibition Act; Public Welfare Association; United States Naval Academy; United States. Supreme Court; Prohibition; Navy-yards and naval stations; Prophecies; United States; International Narcotic Education Association; Naval History; Shipbuilding; American Public Welfare Association; Naval operations; Spanish-American War, 1898; United States. Navy; Women
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, articles, reports, notes, analyses, orders, press clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Hobson's naval career and to his efforts on behalf of prohibition, restrictions on international drug trafficking, and opposition to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.  Documents Hobson's service during the Spanish-American War primarily pertaining to operations in Cuba and the Philippines; survey of Chinese, and Japanese, and British colonial navy-yards; proficiency in naval design and construction; and years as student and educator at the United States Naval Academy.  Subjects include his advocacy of the enlargement of the U.S. Navy, a permanent fleet in the Pacific, and increase in the number of battleships; opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's expansion of the Supreme Court; Hobson's predictions of global conflict prior to both world wars; women's suffrage; sinking of the Lusitania; and industrial recovery during the Depression.  Organizations represented include the Alcohol Education Society of America, Anti-saloon League of America, Constitutional Democracy Association, International Narcotic Education Association, Public Welfare Association, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and World Narcotic Defense Association.  Correspondents include and Pascual Cervera y Topete, French Ensor Chadwick, Theodore Roosevelt, Nikola Tesla, and Hobson's wife, Grizelda Hull Hobson, and other family members.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Grizelda Hull Hobson and others, 1939-1986.

Some broadsides transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Naval officer and U.S. representative from Alabama.

Collection material in English.

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