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  • Conditions Governing Use

  • Language of Material: English
    Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Title: Stephen Mallory White Papers
    Identifier/Call Number: M0035
    Physical Description: 50 Linear Feet (100 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1871-1901
    Abstract: Correspondence and other papers relating to White's career as lawyer, Los Angeles district attorney, state senator, and U.S. Senator. Subjects covered include: estate litigation, water rights, incorporations, mortgages, property rights, local and California politics, patronage, tariffs, annexation, pensions, appeals for clemency, Chinese immigration, free silver question, Indian rights, discrimination against Catholics, the rights of Black Americanss, and the Itata incident.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Gift of the White family, 1917 and 1920.

    Biography

    Stephen Mallory White was born January 19, 1853 in San Francisco, California. He was a lawyer, district attorney for Los Angeles, California State Senator (1886-1890), acting Lieutenant Governor of California (1888-1890), and U.S. Senator (1893-1899). He died in Los Angeles, California, February 21, 1901.

    Preferred Citation

    Steven Mallory White Papers. M0035. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Scope and Contents

    Correspondence and other papers relating to White's career as lawyer, Los Angeles district attorney, state senator, and U.S. Senator. Subjects covered include: estate litigation, water rights, incorporations, mortgages, property rights, local and California politics, patronage, tariffs, annexation, pensions, appeals for clemency, Chinese immigration and rights, free silver question, Native American rights, discrimination against Catholics, the rights of Black Americans, and the Itata incident.

    Conditions Governing Use

    These materials are believed to be in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Statesmen.
    Silver question.
    Discrimination in employment.
    Democratic Party -- California.
    Lawyers.
    Itata incident.
    Patronage -- California.
    Tidelands oil -- California.
    Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- United States
    Daniels, Josephus
    Buckley, Christopher Augustine
    Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
    Griggs, John William
    Bryan, William Jennings
    Gompers, Samuel
    Long, John Davis
    Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951
    Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
    Olney, Warren
    Southwick, George
    Bradford, Gamaliel
    Root, Elihu
    Wells, Fargo & Company.
    Stanford, Leland
    Whitehead, Charles.
    Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Co.
    Winchell and Stanton.