Speeches, addresses, etc., American

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Speech titled Public Lands given by Thomas Maddock at the Governor's Conference in Portland, Or., October 28, 1931. Speech calls for an end to federal regulation of public lands.

Abstract Wallace McCamant came to Oregon in 1890 and practiced law. Later, he was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court in 1916, but resigned in 1918, and resumed private law practice. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920, and nominated Calvin Coolidge for the vice-presidency. In 1925, Coolidge nominated him to the Circuit Court of Appeals, a nomination that failed confirmation because of opposition by Senator Hiram Johnson. The collection includes correspondence relating...

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The papers of Paul Jerome Raver document his work as a student at Northwestern University, as an engineer for the Chicago Surface Lines, as the supervisor of the Rates and Research Department of the Illinois Commerce Commission, as the administrator of Bonneville Power Administration, and as superintendent of the Seattle City Light Company, and include class notes and course materials, correspondence, speeches, minutes, reports and studies, case files, publications, and scrapbooks.

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Albert Hawes Tanner was a member of the Oregon legislature, city attorney for Portland, and later municipal judge. His papers include addresses to juries and patriotic speeches.