Letters Home From Congress
Collection Overview
This collection features letters home from Warren R. Austin (Senator, 1931-1946), Jacob Collamer (Representative, 1843-1848; Senator, 1855-1865), and Samuel C. Crafts (Representative, 1817-1824; Senator, 1842-1843). The letters document travel to...
Show moreThis collection features letters home from Warren R. Austin (Senator, 1931-1946), Jacob Collamer (Representative, 1843-1848; Senator, 1855-1865), and Samuel C. Crafts (Representative, 1817-1824; Senator, 1842-1843). The letters document travel to and from Washington by horse, boat, train, and airplane; lodging in boarding houses, hotels, and homes; social life in Washington; significant local and national events; and legislative issues under consideration in Congress. Austin's letters are particularly strong in their coverage of his frustration at being a Senator in the minority party during the era of Roosevelt and the New Deal; his activities on the Judiciary Committee; and foreign affairs questions such as the Neutrality Act. The letters of Crafts and Collamer both extensively cover the question of slavery, discussing Missouri statehood, John Brown, the annexation of Texas, and the Civil War. All three Congressmen frequently discuss questions regarding appropriations and the Federal budget. Biographical information is available from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, at: http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 17, 1938
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Topics include Judiciary sub-committee testimony on the need for an additional Judge in the Northern District of Georgia; cloture vote on the filibuster of the anti-lynching bill.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 17, 1939
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Topics include granting of Austin's request for another airmail service at Burlington, Vermont.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 19, 1935
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Topics include Gold Decision of the Supreme Court; lengthy commentary, with quotations from Court decisions, regarding a shift in favor of the Government and against citizen's property and rights.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 19, 1940
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Topics include speech by a Senator about home consumption to an almost empty Senate.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 2, 1937
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Topics include Senate speeches on the appropriation of relief funds.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 2, 1938
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Topics include Austin's changing of his seat in the Senate, with a diagram; lack of Republicans in the Senate; filibuster of Anti-Lynching Bill.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 2, 1939
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Topics include sub-committee meeting on the common defense and raw materials for the armed forces and the civilian populations.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 20, 1939
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Topics include debate on Tennessee Valley Authority appropriation.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 21, 1935
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Topics include Austin's work on the Thirty Hour Bill.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 21, 1938
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Topics include nomination of Robert Jackson for the post of Solicitor General.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 23, 1935
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Topics include Austin's reading of Washington's Farewell Address, an annual event in the Senate.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 23, 1938
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Topics include Austin's debate of the Relief Bill in the Senate.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 24, 1938
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Topics include Judiciary Committee consideration of adding more judgeships.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 24, 1939
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Topics include Military Affairs Committee vote on the Stock Pile Bill; letters received by Austin in support of his stand on foreign policy and defense.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 25, 1938
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Topics include Senator Norris and the Tennessee Valley Administration; Bill for Appropriations to the Executive Office.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 26, 1937
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Topics include Tarriff debate; speeches by Austin and Representative Charles A. Plumley (VT) about Ethan Allen.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 26, 1940
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Topics include appropriation for Departments of State, Commerce, Justice and the Judiciary; speech by Senator Tobey (NH) on auditing practices.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 27, 1936
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Topics include a Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for a Federal Judge of the 5th Circuit, Edwin Holmes, which pitted Senator Bilbo against Senator Harrison, both from Mississippi.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 27, 1939
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Topics include National Defense Bill.
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- Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 28, 1935
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Topics include breakfast with Justice McReynolds and Princess Julia Grant Kantakuzen, granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant; Gold Decision.