Nicholas Longworth papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1800
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Students; United States; Harvard University; United States. Congress. House. Office of the Speaker of the House; United States. Congress. House; African Americans; Universities and colleges
Description: Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia consisting chiefly of speeches by Longworth while serving in the House of Representatives.  Includes scrapbooks concerning his student days at Harvard; a series of letters from various individuals written in 1907 to President Theodore Roosevelt concerning the nomination of an African American to be surveyor of customs for the Port of Cincinnati; letters (1823, 1824, and 1860) written by Longworth's grandfather Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863); and an album of letters of speakers of the House of Representatives.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Katharine F. Dietz, 1964.

Gift, Joanna Sturm, 1975.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.

Lawyer and U.S. representative from Ohio.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006041