Guide to the Henry Fountain Ashurst Papers, [ca. 1880-1943]

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Guide to the Henry Fountain Ashurst Papers, [ca. 1880-1943]

Collection number: BANC MSS P-D 116

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Henry Fountain Ashurst Papers,

Date (inclusive): ca. 1880-1943

Collection Number: BANC MSS P-D 116

Creator: Ashurst, Henry F. (Henry Fountain), 1874-1962

Extent: Number of containers: 1 box

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: Mainly letters and invitations relating to his career as U.S. Senator from Arizona.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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 appropriate curator or the Head of the Public Services for forwarding. 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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Henry Fountain Ashurst papers, BANC MSS P-D 116, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Materials Cataloged Separately

Printed items have been removed for separate cataloging.
A photocopy, with translation, of a Porfirio Díaz letter dated Sept. 14, 1903, was placed in
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS M-M 1700 (no. 57).

Biographical Sketch

Henry Fountain Ashurst, Senator from Arizona, was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, September 13, 1874. In 1875 his parents moved to Arizona, settling near Flagstaff. He attended the public schools of Flagstaff, graduated from the Stockton Business College in California in 1896, and studied law at the University of Michigan. He began his law practice at Williams, Arizona. In 1897 and in 1899 he was a member of the Territorial house of representatives, and served as speaker in 1899. He served in the Territorial senate in 1903, and was district attorney of Coconino County from 1905 to 1908. He moved to Prescott in 1903, continuing his law practice. When Arizona was admitted as a state into the Union, he was elected Democratic Senator in 1912, and re-elected in 1916, 1922, 1928, and 1934. From 1941 to 1943 he was appointed member of the Board of Immigration Appeals in the Department of Justice. He retired in 1943.

Scope and Content

This collection of papers, consisting mainly of official invitations and of letters written to Ashurst during his senatorial career, was given to The Bancroft Library by Donald E. Metzler on Nov. 9, 1964. Single items of correspondence have been placed in an A-Z Miscellany, followed by folders containing multiple items, arranged alphabetically. A group of invitations (2 folders), clippings (1 folder), and miscellaneous personalia completes the collection. A partial list of correspondence follows.

A-Z Miscellany

American Legion

Letter, Sept. 1, 1922, by Hanford MacNider

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

Letter, July 14, 1917

Burke, Charles Henry, 1861-1941

Letter, Apr. 18, 1929

Burton, Theodore Elijah, 1851-1929

Letter, Aug. 14, 1918

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-

Letter, July 5, 1936

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Letter, Sept. 23, 1927

Additional Note

Photocopy.

Harding, Warren Gamaliel, 1865-1923

Letter, Feb. 20, 1923

Additional Note

Photocopy.

Heney, Francis Joseph, 1859-1937

Letter, May 31, 1924

Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948

Letter, Aug. 16, 1919

Keenan, Joseph Berry, 1888-1954

Letter, Dec. 14, 1934

McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941

Letter, Oct. 17, 1913

Martine, James Edgar, 1850-1925

Letter, July 30, 1917

Obregón, Alcaro, Pres. Mexico, 1880-1928

Letter, Aug. 22, 1921

Additional Note

Translation only.

Penrose, Boies, 1860-1921

Letter, Aug. 13, 1921

Society of Tammany

Letter, May 28, 1919, by Thomas F. Smith, Secretary

Additional Note

Program included.

Smith, Thomas F., d. 1923

See Society of Tammany

Sulzer, William, 1863-1941

Letter, Apr. 17, 1917

Walsh, David Ignatius, 1872-1947

Letter, n.d.

Ashurst, Henry Fountain, 1874-

2 letters, 1880-1943

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

8 letters, 1917-1921

Cummings, Homer Stillé, 1870-1956

4 letters, 1934-1936

Davis, John William, 1873-1955

2 letters, 1924

Fitch, Thomas, 1838-1923

3 letters, 1917-1920

Hoover, Herbert Clark, 1874-1964

2 letters, 1917-1931

Additional Note

1917 letter is photocopy.

Hunt, George Wylie Paule, 1859-1934

6 letters, 1918-1924

Additional Note

Some written as Governor of Arizona.

Johnson, Hiram Warren, 1866- 1945

2 letters, 1917

Lane, Franklin Knight, 1864-1921

5 letters, 1914-1918

Additional Note

3 letters undated.

Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-

2 letters, 1934-1936

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945

4 letters, 1933-1940

Additional Note

3 are photocopies.

Smith, Marcus Aurelius, 1851-1924

3 letters, 1916-1920

Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930

2 letters, 1928

Additional Note

Photocopies.

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

4 letters, 1912-1918

Additional Note

Photocopies.