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Guide to the Philip Bancroft Papers, 1908-1959
BANC MSS C-B 851
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Collection Title: Philip Bancroft Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1959
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 851
Creator:
Bancroft, Philip, 1881-1975
Extent:
Number of containers: 2 boxes, 4 cartons and 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: 5.85
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence relating primarily to Bancroft's political activities as a member of the Republican
Party, the Progressive Party, and as an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator. Principal correspondents include
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, Edgar Augustine Lucie, Martin Madsen, Frank Finley Merriam, Raymond W.
Miller, George Cooper Pardee, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Allerton Shurtleff, Justus S. Wardell, and Clement Calhoun Young.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Philip Bancroft Papers, BANC MSS C-B 851, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials Cataloged Separately
- Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
The Philip Bancroft Papers were donated to The Bancroft Library in 1962, with additions made in 1964.
Philip Bancroft was born in San Francisco in 1881, the son of Hubert Howe and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft. He attended
Harvard Law School and Hastings College of the Law, graduating from the latter in 1905. He then established a law practice
in San Francisco and soon became interested in politics. In 1908 he was elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
In 1912 he was elected again to their convention where he became a member of the Progressive National Convention formed to
nominate Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram W. Johnson. Following Army service in World War I, he decided to become a full-time
farmer on his ranch in Walnut Creek, California. He was a member and officer of numerous agricultural organizations including
the Associated Farmers of Contra Costa County, the Contra Costa Walnut Growers' Association and the California Pear Growers'
Association. In 1938 and 1944 he was the Republican nominee for the office of United States Senator from California. He died
in 1975.
The collection contains correspondence relating primarily to Bancroft's political activities as a member of the Republican
Party, the Progressive Party, and unsuccessful candidate for elective (and appointive) office. Some of his papers relate to
his career as a farmer. There are also typed copies of Bancroft's speeches, which primarily concern political lobbying for
agricultural interests, transcripts of proceedings, campaign memorabilia, clippings, and miscellaneous other Papers. Personal
information about Philip Bancroft is contained in a record of his childhood (1881-1891), kept by his mother.