Henry Thomas Rainey papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 6000
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Marketing; Inland water transportation; Agriculture; Farm produce
Description: Primarily constituent correspondence for 1934 and correspondence relating to the passage of the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill, 1924.  Also includes material pertaining to the Illinois Waterway.  Correspondents include Alexander S. Bacon, William Jennings Bryan, Sam B. Dannis, William Randolph Hearst, W.G. McAdoo, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. Rainey, 1934-1936.

U.S. representative from Illinois and speaker of the U.S. Congress House of Representatives.

Collection material in English.

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