Willis Van Devanter papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17000
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; Government relations; Indians of North America; Public lands; Politics and government; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-  ); Elections; United States. Supreme Court; United States; Constitutional law; Law; History
Description: Correspondence, letterbooks, legal records and briefs, speeches, lectures, and scrapbooks.  Topics include Van Devanter's Cheyenne, Wyo., law practice, Wyoming and Republican Party politics, the 1896 election, Indian affairs, western land policy, and his service (1910-1937) as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Correspondents include Elmer B. Adams, Charles Fremont Amidon, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Pierce Butler, A.C. Campbell, Joseph M. Carey, Clarence D. Clark, John H. Clarke, William R. Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William C. Hook, Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg, John W. Lacey, Frank W. Mondell, John Finis Philips, John C. Pollock, William A. Richards, John A. Riner, William Velpeau Rooker, Edward Terry Sanford, Harlan Fiske Stone, William H. Taft, Luther M. Walter, Francis E. Warren, and Sylvester G. Williams.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Winslow B. Van Devanter, 1980.

Lawyer, jurist, and Supreme Court justice.

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