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Guide to the Patrick William McDonough Papers, [ca. 1940-1951].
BANC MSS C-B 999
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Collection Title: Patrick William McDonough Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1940-1951
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 999
Creator: McDonough, Patrick William, 1888-
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 carton
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: Includes correspondence, speeches, press releases, newspaper clippings, relating primarily to his role in local and statewide
Democratic Party politics in California and his unsuccessful campaigns for political office.
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 be also obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Patrick William McDonough Papers, BANC MSS C-B 999, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
This collection of McDonough's papers was given to The Bancroft Library by his daughter, Mrs. John Higgins, in January 1966.
Patrick William McDonough was born in San Francisco on February 20, 1888. He worked as a boilermaker from 1909 to 1913, when
he became a foreman and began to study law. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1917. In 1924 he founded the McDonough
Steel Company in Oakland. He was active in local and statewide Democratic Party politics, served as Chairman of the Alameda
County Democratic Central Committee, as Northern California Chairman of the Business & Professional Men's League for Roosevelt
(1940), and ran unsuccessfully for State Senator from the 16th District in 1942 and for U.S. Congressman from the 7th District
in 1946. From 1945 to 1946 he served as national director of the Smaller War Plants Corporation.
The collection consists almost entirely of political correspondence, covering the years from 1940 to 1951, dealing with national,
state and local elections, Democratic Party issues and patronage appointments. The Papers, which are housed in one carton,
are described in greater detail in the Key to Arrangement which follows.