Creator:
Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932.
Inclusive Dates:
1858- 1883
Abstract:
U.S. Army officer (U.S. Civil War, Spanish-American War) and legislator (U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, 1877-1885, 1905-1911). Collection contains correspondence, primarily from 1881-1883, when Keifer was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and two items of miscellany. Incoming letters, mostly from military and political figures, of Susan B. Anthony, James G. Blaine, William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Chapman Catt, James A. Garfield, Marcus A. Hanna, Warren G. Harding, Rutherford B. Hayes, Nicholas Longworth, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Howard Taft, Leonard Wood, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
United States -- Politics and government, 1865-1933.
Legislators.
Soldiers.
Military history
Politics, government and public administration
Civil War (U.S.)
Legislators -- United States.
Creator:
Sherman, John, 1823-1900.
Inclusive Dates:
1852- 1898
Abstract:
Papers of the American statesman. Sherman was a U.S. Congressional representative from Ohio, 1855-61; U.S. Senator, 1861-77; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-81; U.S. Senator, 1881-97; and U.S. Secretary of State, 1897-98. Cf. Dictionary of national biography. Letters on fiscal policy, political issues, appointments, and the Republican Party, written to Anson Burlingame, Hamilton Fish, Ulysses S. Grant, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Legislators.
Politicians.
Statesmen.
Politics, government and public administration
Politicians -- United States.
United States -- History -- 1865-1898.
United States -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment.
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.