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  • Scope and Contents
  • Biographical / Historical
  • Arrangement
  • Preferred Citation
  • Provenance
  • Conditions Governing Use
  • Conditions Governing Access
  • Related Materials
  • J. ARTHUR YOUNGER ADDITION NAME INDEX

  • Language of Material: English
    Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Title: J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur) Younger Papers
    creator: Younger, J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur)
    Identifier/Call Number: M0216
    Physical Description: 11.5 Linear Feet (28 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1964-1968

    Scope and Contents

    This collection consists of correspondence, documents, and printed reference materials which form a written record of Younger's career in Washington, D.C. from 1964 until his death in 1967 and the election of his successor. The collection covers almost every aspect of his life and duties as well as showing his constituents' reactions and opinions to most of the major and local issues of the period.

    Biographical / Historical

    Jesse Arthur Younger, born 11 April 1893, Albany, Oregon, moved to Kirkland, Washington, graduated from the University of Washington at Seattle in 1915, and served in World War I. He served with the Washington National Guard with the 48th Coast Artillery Corps from 1917 until August 1919 when he was discharged as a Captain. From 1920-1930 Younger was the vice-president, director, manager of mortgage loan department of the Seattle Title Trust Company. He was the President of the Seattle Mortgage Loan Company from 1930-1934. From 1934-1937 he was the regional appraiser for the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the assistant appraiser for the Home Loan Bank Board, and the Chief of Savings and Loan Division of Federal Home Loan Bank Board. In 1937 he moved to San Mateo, California where he was the executive vice-president of the Citizens Federal Savings & Loan Association in San Francisco.
    He was the Republican representative from the 9th California Congressional District to the United States House of Representatives, 1953-1967. He died in office on 20 June 1967 from leukemia.

    Arrangement

    The files are arranged alphabetically by subject (Boxes 1 through 19) followed by Correspondence arranged alphabetically (Boxes 19-28).

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item] J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur) Younger Papers (M0216), Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Provenance

    Gift of Representative Paul McCloskey, Jr., 1972.

    Conditions Governing Use

    While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish

    Conditions Governing Access

    The collection is open for research. Note that material is stored off-site and must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

    Related Materials

    J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur) Younger Papers, M0190, Stanford University Libraries.

    J. ARTHUR YOUNGER ADDITION NAME INDEX

    Adair, E. Ross (1907 -)
    Adams, Brock
    Allen, Rober H.
    Ashbrook, John M.
    Ball, Robert M. (1914 -)
    Battaglia, Philip M.
    Bayh, Birch
    Beek, Joseph A.
    Belcher, Page (1899 -)
    Bell, Alphonzo
    Bennett, Charles E. (1910 -)
    Bertucelli, Frank J.
    Blackwell, J. L.
    Boerger, Frank C.
    Bow, Frank T.
    Boyd, Alan S.
    Britschgi, Carl A.
    Brody, Ralph M
    Brotzman, Donald G.
    Brown, Edmund G. (1905 -)
    Broyhill, Joel T. (1919 -)
    Buckley, Charles A. (1890 -)
    Cannon [UNK] (1879 -)
    Celler, Emanuel (1888 -)
    Chase, Russell
    Clausen, Don H.
    Cliff, Edward P.
    Cohen, Kenneth
    Cohen, Wilbur J.
    Collier, John L. E. Bud
    Collier, A. S., Jr.
    Corbett, Robert J. (1905 -)
    Cowger, William O.
    Dillard, John A. B.
    Dorsey, Stephen P.
    Farrell, Raymond F.
    Feighan,,ichael A.
    Findley, Paul
    Flournoy, J. D.
    Goodell, Charles E. (1926 -)
    Graham, Jackson
    Gronouski, John A.
    Gruening, Ernest (1887 -)
    Guernsey, Edward J.
    Hill, Lester
    Holifield, Chet
    Hoover, J. Edgar (1895 -)
    Johnson, Harold T.
    Kauffmann, Draper L.
    Krebs, Ward G.
    Langen, Odin
    Lee, Robert E. (1912 -)
    Lipscomb, Glenard P. (1915 -)
    Loevinger, Lee
    MacArthur, Douglas II (1909 -)
    MackCarter, John
    Marshall, Clyde M.
    McCloskey, Paul N., Jr.
    Mills, Wilbur D. (1909 -)
    Moore, Tom
    Murphy, George A. (1902 -)
    Nes, Charles M., Jr.
    O'Brien, Lawrence F. (1917 -)
    Pendergast, J. Frank
    Perkins, Carl D. (1912 -)
    Pick, Lewis A., Jr.
    Prescott, Robert W. (1913 -)
    Preston, E. R.
    Pucinski, Roman C.
    Reagan, Ronald (1911 -)
    Redeker, Harry E.
    Reith, Edward
    Rhodes, John J. (1916 -)
    Riddell, Robert E.
    Rivers, Lucius Mendel (1905 -)
    Sanders, Ira T.
    Schacht, Henry
    Seagraves, Roy W.
    Shipman, Carl L.
    Shriver, Sargent (1915 -)
    Springer, William L.
    Staggers, Harley O.
    Stewart, William H.
    Talcott, Burt L.
    Taylor, W. Allen
    Teague, Olin Earl (1910 -)
    Tenzer, Herbert
    Tooker, John S.
    Tucker, William H.
    Udall, Stewart R. (1920 -)
    Utt, James B. (1899 -)
    Van Deerlin, Lionel
    Whittier, James L.
    Willis, Edwin E. (1904 -)
    Wilson, Charles H.
    Young, Crawford
    Zablocki, Clement J.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    United States -- Politics and government.
    United States. Congress. House
    San Mateo County -- History
    Republican Party (U.S.).
    Younger, J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur)