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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Tasker L. Oddie papers
Creator:
Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950
Identifier/Call Number: mssOddie
Physical Description:
12.84 Linear Feet
(25 boxes, 4 rolls, 1 scrapbook)
Date (inclusive): 1864-1891, 1906-1914
Date (bulk): 1873, 1910-1914
Abstract: This collection consists mainly of correspondence of Nevada governor and United States Senator Tasker L. Oddie (1870-1950)
from the period 1910-1914 during his governorship. There are also Nevada State papers consisting almost entirely copies of
legislative bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years. Subjects include: mining, politics,
and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic of 1907, the Progressive party, and
the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
Language of Material: English.
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[Identification of item]. Tasker L. Oddie papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Grahame Hardy in 1953.
Tasker Lowndes Oddie (1870-1950) was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 24, 1870. Educated in law, he was admitted to
the New York Bar in 1895. In 1898 he immigrated to Nevada, where he engaged in mining, agricultural and livestock interests,
and was instrumental in the development of the Tonopah and Goldfield silver and gold mining districts. Oddie entered political
life early, serving as District Attorney of Nye County, Nevada, in 1901-1902, as State Senator from 1904-1908, Governor of
Nevada 1910-1914, and U.S. Senator 1921-1933. During the First World War he was active in the Nevada District Bureau of the
National War Resources Board. He married Daisy Rendall in 1916. Oddie died in San Francisco, California, on February 17, 1950.
The collection consists mainly of correspondence from the period 1910-1914, beginning when Oddie initiated his campaign for
governor, and ending when he was about to terminate his administration. This correspondence is arranged in 19 boxes, in alphabetical
order by author, of which boxes 1-11 contain correspondence directed to Oddie, and boxes 12-19 contain copies of Oddie's own
correspondence to others. There are, in addition, 6 boxes and 4 rolls of Nevada State papers, almost entirely copies of legislative
bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years.
Subjects include: mining, politics, and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic
of 1907, the Progressive party, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Materials created by US presidents
include Theodore Roosevelt telegram to Tasker L. Oddie, 1911 March 15, and typescript copy of Theodore Roosevelt letter to
Mr. Smith, 1911 January 31 (box 9); and William H. Taft typescript letter to Tasker L. Oddie, written and signed by his secretary
Charles D. Hilles, 1911 June 7 (box 10).
Persons represented by ten or more pieces:
- Adamson, L 18 pieces
- Amigo, Henry J 17 pieces
- Bray, W 14 pieces
- Brown, Hugh H 15 pieces
- Buchanan, J A 20 pieces
- Campbell, J 14 pieces
- Cookson, H H 55 pieces
- Howell, Eugene 43 pieces
- Jackson, Austin 113 pieces
- Johnson, Stephen 98 pieces
- Kinghorn, Frank J 19 pieces
- Landquist, J W 20 pieces
- Lindsay, James G 33 pieces
- McElroy, S T 16 pieces
- Miller, Thomas Woodnutt 18 pieces
- Moore, Sidney R 12 pieces
- Norcross, Charles A 11 pieces
- North, Miles E 16 pieces
- Oddie, Clarence 38 pieces
- Oddie, Tasker Lowndes 8 boxes pieces
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company. 21 pieces
- Pulver, C S 17 pieces
- Siebert, Fred J 35 pieces
- Skuse, John C 29 pieces
- Smith, Dix W 20 pieces
- Spencer, L B 24 pieces
- Stubbs, Joseph Edward 14 pieces
- Turrell, William H 15 pieces
- Wingfield, George 18 pieces
This finding aid was updated in 2022 by Melissa Haley as part of the American Presidential Papers Project with enhanced description
of the presidential material present.
Former call number: mssOddie papers.
Arranged in 19 boxes in alphabetical order by author.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Governors -- Nevada -- Correspondence.
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada.
Mining districts -- Nevada.
Politicians -- Nevada -- Correspondence.
Women -- Suffrage -- Nevada.
Nevada -- History -- Sources.
Nevada -- Politics and government.
Bills (legislative records) -- Nevada.
Letters (correspondence) -- Nevada.
Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes), 1870-1950.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)