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Guide to the Henry Fountain Ashurst Papers, [ca. 1880-1943]
BANC MSS P-D 116
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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
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 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.
[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).
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.
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.