John Marshall Harlan papers
Contributors: Harlan, James, 1800-1863
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20400
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; George Washington University. Law School; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Bering Sea controversy; Social life and customs; United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit); Presidents; Law and legislation; Elections; United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 10th (1861-1864); Politics and government; Study and teaching; Constitutional law; Election; George Washington University; Law; United States; United States. Supreme Court; History
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, legal and financial records, subject files, family papers, and other papers relating to Harlan's career in law, politics, and the judiciary.  Documents his position as judge on the U.S. Circuit Court for the Seventh Circuit, his service as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other aspects of his legal and judicial career.  Also documents his legal practice in Kentucky during the 1870s when he was in partnership with Benjamin Helm Bristow and John E. Newman; Harlan's political activities in Kentucky during 1876 when he supported Bristow's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination; Harlan's appointment (1877) as a member of the commission to settle the disputed state election in Louisiana; his Civil War service with the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; his role in the Bering Sea arbitration (1892-1893); and his tenure as professor of law at George Washington University Law School.

Includes letters, 1867-1877, from Bristow, especially significant for information concerning the administration of Ulysses S. Grant; published copies (9 volumes) of Harlan's Supreme Court opinions, compiled by Richard D. Harlan; and correspondence, financial and legal records, and other papers of Harlan's father, James Harlan, relating to political affairs.

Family correspondence is with Harlan's wife, Malvina Shanklin Harlan; his sons, James Shanklin Harlan, John Maynard Harlan, and Richard D. Harlan; and his brother-in-law, James G. Hatchitt.  Other correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, J.B. Bowman, Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, David Davis, George C. Drane, John William Finnell, William Cassius Goodloe, Walter Quintin Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, John Rodman, Alexander H.H. Stuart, Augustus Everett Willson, and Bluford Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 17,179.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.

Includes photocopies collected from various repositories. [S.l.].

Gift, John Marshall Harlan (grandson) and Mrs. Roger A. Derby, 1957.

Bequest, John Marshall Harlan (grandson), 1973-1975.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and lawyer and politician of Kentucky.

Collection material in English.

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