George Sutherland papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4500
Subjects: Politics and government; Judges; Elections; United States; Constitutional law; Correspondence; Law; American Bar Association; United States. Supreme Court; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary; Selection and appointment
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, notes, legal files, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Sutherland's service as U.S. congressman and senator from Utah and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.  Subjects include his affiliation with the American Bar Association, presidential campaign of 1920, appointment of Sutherland to the bench in 1922, Supreme Court packing fight of 1937, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Utah politics.  Correspondents include William Edgar Borah, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Tom Connally, Carter Glass, Warren G. Harding, Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William H. Taft, and John Sharp Williams.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. Walter A. Bloedorn, 1959.

Gift, William Lyle Stamps, 1998.

Lawyer, U.S. senator from Utah, and associate justice of the Supreme Court.

Collection material in English.

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