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Politics, Government, and Law

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1673 Collections and/or Records:

Edward G. Bush official correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2280
Scope and Contents Handwritten military orders and official correspondence plus photocopies. Also included is a hand-drawn map of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation and nearby areas. This item is housed separately in a location for oversized materials. General George Crook (1828-1890) sent orders to Fort Douglas directing that two companies be sent to assure that the road between Price, Utah and the Uintah Reservation be made passable for heavy freight. Major, later lieutenant colonel, Bush was given the...
Dates: 1887

Business papers, 1913-1958

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1993 Series 2
Scope and Contents

The business series contains correspondence and other papers from Richards' various legal cases, dating 1913-1958. It includes correspondence concerning Columbia University and with Ernest L. Wilkinson.

Dates: 1913-1958

Don A. Buswell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9632
Scope and Contents

Letters sent to and from Don Averett Buswell during his service in World War II. Most letters are between Don and his wife, Lou Rene Thompson Buswell. Other letters are sent to and from Don and other correspondents. Materials dated 1941-1945.

Dates: 1941-1945

Richard Marsh Butler papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8849
Scope and Contents

Contains Richard Marsh Butler's personal and military papers, dated 1920-2005 with the bulk dated 1933-1953. Includes WWII scrapbooks, diaries, letters, ephemera, and artifacts, including materials related to Butler's time spend in Stalag Luft III as a prisoner of war. Also includes mterials from Butler's post-WWII military career in the Air Reserves.

Dates: 1920-2005; Majority of material found within approximately 1933-1953

Dick Butt ; sheriff of San Juan

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345768]
Identifier: MSS 969
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of a typewritten biography. The date of its composition is uncertain. Lyman writes about Willard George Richard Butt, sheriff of San Juan County, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1960

Estelle M. Burton autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341221]
Identifier: MSS 2614
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Burton was a nurse for the United States Navy. She was stationed at Jacksonville, Florida, in 1948. She was in the service from 1948 until 1949. She married Lee D. Burton in 1949 and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 2003

Luke Cahill letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232511]
Identifier: MSS SC 14
Scope and Contents Letter from Cahill to D.H. Bellrose, Colorado State Senator, which introduces an accompanying typescript of a letter written by Cahill to U.S. Senator John F. Shafroth in 1918 in which Cahill requests help in securing a larger pension for his services in the Indian Wars. The 1918 letter outlines Cahill's various experiences during the wars and includes a typescript of a letter written in 1913 from W.F. Cody to Cahill, thanking him for his service while they served together in 1868 and 1869....
Dates: 1926

Correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334432]
Identifier: MSS 1069
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten letters dated 3 Jan. 1882 and 6 Dec. 1883. John T. Caine and George Q. Cannon write of the death of William Henry Hooper in the 1882 letter, and James Sharp writes to Caine about how the activities of the United States Congress might have an impact on Utah in the missive of 1883.

Dates: 1882-1883

Cyril Call papers

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 774
Scope and Contents

Handwritten legal transactions; a tax receipt; an inventory of property; a notice of a scheduled Hancock County, Illinois, court hearing; a judge's decision on a bill of divorce; and a personal letter.

Dates: 1816-1858

Marion Jones Callister papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1512
Scope and Contents

Collection includes correspondence, files, judicial reports, and other papers relating to the personal and professional life of Marion Jones Callister. There is also an oral history. Included are papers specifically on the Idaho vs. Freedom case. Much of the collection deals with his service as a judge; the controversy over the equal rights amendment is mentioned throughout the collection. The collection dates from 1930 to 1994.

Dates: 1930-1994