J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur) Younger Papers, 1964-1968

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Summary

Title:
J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur) Younger Papers
Dates:
1964-1968
Creators:
Younger, J. Arthur (Jesse Arthur)
Extent:
11.5 Linear Feet (28 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Custodial history:

Gift of Representative Paul McCloskey, Jr., 1972.

Arrangement:

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

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

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

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.

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Preferred citation:

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

Location of this collection:
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Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
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