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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Irvine Luther Lenroot, jurist, lawyer, and U.S. representative and senator from Wisconsin, were given to the Library of Congress by Katharine F. Lenroot and Eleanore von Eltz Lenroot from 1964 to 1979.
The papers of Irvine Luther Lenroot were arranged and described in 1979. The collection was expanded and revised in 2012.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Irvine Luther Lenroot is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Irvine Luther Lenroot are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Irvine Luther Lenroot Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Irvine Luther Lenroot (1869-1949) consist of family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, political files, speeches, articles, subject files, biographical material, the typescript draft of an unpublished autobiography, a handwritten record of Lenroot’s congressional career, printed matter, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, legal papers, broadsides, certificates, and other related material. The years covered are 1858-1964, with most of the papers falling within the period 1900-1944. The collection is organized into ten series: Correspondence , Political File , Speech and Article File , Subject File , Biographical File , Miscellany , Scrapbooks , Addition , and Oversize .
Lenroot’s political career from 1894 to 1928 dominates the papers. Specifically, the papers are concerned primarily with Lenroot’s political campaigns and membership in the Wisconsin state legislature, the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, C. H. Crownhart, William H. Dougherty, Herman Lewis Ekern, Guy Despard Goff, John J. Hannan, William Hard, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Walter Jodok Kohler, Robert M. LaFollette (1855-1925), Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Gifford Pinchot, Alfred Thomas Rogers, and Mark Sullivan. Papers of the Clough and Lenroot families include correspondence, genealogical material, and diaries and writings of Lenroot’s wife, Clara Clough Lenroot.
This collection is arranged in ten series:
Family and general correspondence, including letters, memoranda, telegrams and related matter.
Family correspondence is arranged chronologically. General correspondence is organized alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, and newspaper clippings concerned with campaigns and conventions. The 1926 senatorial campaign in Wisconsin and the 1928 presidential campaign dominate this series. The 1926 campaign file contains correspondence, financial papers, campaign literature, speeches and statements, and newspaper clippings. The 1928 campaign file contains correspondence, speeches, and campaign literature.
Arranged chronologically by campaign and/or convention
Holograph, typewritten, near-print, and printed copies of speeches and statements, and articles.
Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, and newspaper clippings.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
“Memoirs of Irvine L. Lenroot,” a record of Lenroot’s congressional career, correspondence, joint resolution of the state legislature of Wisconsin on the event of Lenroot’s death, obituaries, editorials, tributes, and miscellany.
Grouped by type of material or subject.
Legal papers, photographs, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other related material.
Grouped by type of material.
Mounted and unmounted newspaper clippings.
Arranged chronologically.
Diaries and journals of Clara Clough Lenroot, Clough family and Lenroot family correspondence, speeches and writings, and miscellany, much of it pertaining to Lenroot’s daughters, Katharine F. Lenroot and Dorothy Lenroot Bromberg.
Arranged by type of material.
Broadsides and certificates.
Arranged and described according to the series and containers from which the items were removed.