James Cannon papers, 1869-1989
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Summary
- Creator:
- Cannon, James, 1864-1944
- Extent:
- 16.27 Linear Feet
12,159 Items - Language:
- English.
- Collection ID:
- RL.00188
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection contains diaries, correspondence, reports, minutes, journals, articles, legal papers, pamphlets, obituaries, and other papers. Main interests center on the material reflecting Cannon's part in the presidential campaign of 1928; his activities in various state, national, world, and religious temperance associations, the General Conference and the Virginia quarterly conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Methodist missionary enterprises. Other papers pertain to his leadership in the effort to unify the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Church. Correspondents include Harry F. Byrd, Carter Glass, Josephus Daniels, Cordell Hull, Herbert Hoover, Frank Knox, William G. McAdoo, H.L. Mencken, Collins Denny, Gerald P. Nye, Warren A. Candler, Charles Evans Hughes, John R. Mott, Edwin D. Mouzon, Claude A. Swanson, Woodrow Wilson, Charles C. Carlin, Charles Curtis, Walter F. George, Andrew Mellon, Robert F. Wagner, William Hodges Mann, and G.W. Ochs-Oakes.
Addition (2011-0101) (103 items, 0.2 lin. ft.; dated 1902-1945 and undated) contains publications and printed materials written by Cannon and others. Topics include prohibition, Methodism, Catholicism, politics, and the international peace movement.
Incomplete index to the collection included.
- Biographical / historical:
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Methodist clergyman from Virginia, journalist, and leader in the prohibition movement. Also known as James Cannon, Jr.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired
- Processing information:
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Processed by Staff
Encoded by Lisa Stark
Finding aid updated to include Acc. 2011-0101 by Alice Poffinberger, June 2011
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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[Identification of item], James Cannon Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.