Skip to main content

Lawyers

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Carr and Carr Records

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0130
Abstract

Complete records of a pioneer law firm and several of its predecessors, including correspondence, account books, ledgers, cases, journals, and receipts.

Dates: 1857-1957

Charles A. Dewey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0103
Abstract

Judge and lawyer. Papers relating primarily to his career on the bench. Correspondence and subject files, together with biographical material, speeches, and articles make up the collection. Includes jury instructions and a well documented lawsuit involving Union Carbide and Carbon Corp.

Dates: 1888-1954

Christian William Ramseyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0132
Abstract

Attorney, Congressman, and U.S. Court of Claims commissioner from Iowa. Correspondence, clippings, court records and opinions, and speeches.

Dates: 1904-1943; Majority of material found within 1920-1939

Clark and Haddock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0039
Abstract

Correspondence, account books, and docket books of the law firm of Clark & Haddock.

Dates: 1859-1874; Majority of material found within 1870-1871

Cook Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0109
Abstract

Diaries of Edward E. Cook, journals and ledgers of the law firm of Cook & Dodge of Davenport, Iowa, and other business and legal papers.

Dates: 1841 - 1912; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1880

David Elderkin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0511
Abstract

Lawyer. Photocopies of correspondence, editorials, photographs, and speeches.

Dates: 1966-2001

Dean Wiley B. Rutledge College of Law Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG14.0001.006
Scope and Contents

This collection is primarily the correspondence of Rutledge and a few reports regarding the routine business of participation in the Iowa Law Review, the American Bar Association, bar admissions, the Iowa Law School Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and the American Law Institute. The material is dated 1923 to 1944, encompassing a broader range than Rutledge's deanship at Iowa.

Dates: 1923-1944

Edward C. Eicher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0049
Abstract

Lawyer, Government official, and U.S. Representative from Iowa. Correspondence, and speeches, including material on Iowa politics and government.

Dates: 1899-1944; Majority of material found within 1899-1901; Majority of material found within 1935-1938

Emlin McClain Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0035
Abstract

Lawyer, judge, and professor. Personal and business correspondence, diaries, and speeches on painting. Most of the material dates before 1880, while McClain was a law student at the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1869 - 1915

Fred Dickinson Letts Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0072
Abstract

Attorney, Congressman, and judge. Correspondence, family and personal records, with court decisions and speeches.

Dates: 1841-1965; Majority of material found within 1940-1969

Harold John Gallagher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0443
Abstract

Attorney and President of the American Bar Association. Subjectfiles, speeches, and correspondence.

Dates: 1910-1981; Majority of material found within 1950-1980

Henry N. Graven Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0222
Abstract

U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Iowa. Papers primarily relating to his legal and judicial career with briefs, jury instructions, citations, subject files, and speeches. Also includes correspondence, information on the School of Religion at the University of Iowa and material about the Lutheran Church.

Dates: 1908-1974

Hilda Ellyson Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0371
Abstract

The papers consist largely of correspondence between Hilda and George Allen and their three children and cover a broad range of family, social and political issues.

Dates: 1884-1958

Iowa Women Judges Project papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0630
Abstract

Oral history interviews with the 'pioneers' of Iowa's women jurists.

Dates: 1997-2000

James E. Bromwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0441
Abstract

Lawyer and U.S. Congressman, 1961-1965. Political and campaign related papers.

Dates: 1959 -1969

John C. Pryor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0377
Abstract

Lawyer in Burlington, Iowa. Correspondence and subject files relating primarily to the Iowa Bar Association and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

Dates: 1920-1976; Majority of material found within 1930-1949

John N. Calhoun Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0274
Abstract

Lawyer in Burlington, Iowa and Iowa state senator. Correspondence and subject files relating to his legal and political careers and his military service in World War II.

Dates: 1923-1954; Majority of material found within 1933-1936

Joseph Franklin Culver Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0373
Abstract

Civil War soldier, lawyer, and banker. Letters about his military service with the Illinois 129th Infantry Regiment, and his life after the war as a lawyer and banker in Illinois and Kansas. Letters Written During the Civil War (Friends of the University of Iowa Library, 1978). These letters were published as Leslie W. Dunlap, editor, Your Affectionate Husband, J.F. Culver: Letters Written During the Civil War (Friends of the University of Iowa Library, 1978).

Dates: 1860-1900; Majority of material found within 1860-1864

Kathleen Halloran Chapman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0263
Abstract

Attorney and Democrat who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and again in 1996.

Dates: 1977-1999

Laura Gibson Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0069
Abstract

Casey, Iowa native who taught country school before marrying and homesteading in Wyoming in 1913. She taught school in the Philippines in the 1910s and 1920s.

Dates: 1917-1983