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William E. Borah Papers, 1902-1941

Overview of the Collection

Author
Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940
Title
William E. Borah Papers
Dates
1902-1941 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.0 linear feet
Collection Number
MSS 345
Summary
The William E. Borah Papers consist primarily of his published speeches. There is a letter to Franklin Roosevelt and correspondence with Walter White. Also included are photographs, campaign notebooks, and other items related to his Senatorial career.
Repository
Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive
Boise ID
83725
Telephone: 2084263990
archives@boisestate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is available for research.

Languages
English
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Content Description

The William E. Borah Papers consist primarily of his published speeches. There is a letter to Franklin Roosevelt and correspondence with Walter White. Also included are photographs, campaign notebooks, and other items related to his Senatorial career.

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Biographical Note

William Edgar Borah was born on June 29, 1865 in Illinois. After several years as a lawyer, he served as a Republican Senator for 33 years (1907-1940). Known as the "Lion of Idaho" because of his progressive viewpoints, he chaired the Senate Foreigh Relations Committee, was against the US joinging the League of Nations in 1918, distrusted government centralization, and supported many New Deal initiatives. Borah died in 1940.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[item description], William E. Borah Papers, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Bruce Corker, son of Borah's assistant Charles Corker, in 2014.

Related Materials

See also: Grace Barringer Scrapbook on William E. Borah: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04690

C.P. Connolly Correspondence with William E. Borah and Albert E. Horsley (Harry Orchard): http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv74127

Blanche Kunz Collection on William E. Borah: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv29412

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Campaign Notebooks
    Dates: 1902-1908
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1-2
  • Description: Correspondence
    Dates: 1930-1940
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Press Statements
    Dates: 1939
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress
    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: The Adverse Report of the Committee on the Judiciary
    Dates: 1937
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Borah-Butler Debate, The Roosevelt Club
    Dates: 1927
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
    Dates: 1940
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Neutrality Act of 1939, H.J. Res. 306
    Dates: 1939
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Funeral Program
    Dates: 1940
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Photographs
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Photographs
    Container: Drawer 1
  • Description: Articles
    Container: Drawer 1
  • Description: Excerpts of Speeches
    Dates: 1918, 1937-1939
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Admission of New Mexico and Arizona - Recall of Judges
    Dates: 1911
  • Description: The Alternative
    Dates: 1914
  • Description: An American Fireside - with Norman Hapgood and Sherman Mittell
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: American Foreign Policy in a Nationalistic World
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: Americanism
    Dates: 1939
  • Description: Andrew Hamilton
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: The Antilynching Bill
    Dates: 1938
  • Description: Arbitration with Mexico
    Dates: 1927
  • Description: Armaments - Taxation
    Dates: 1929
  • Description: Armed Merchant Ships
    Dates: 1916
  • Description: Balancing the Budget
    Dates: 1933
  • Description: The Beer Bill
    Dates: 1933
  • Description: Boise Exchange Club
    Dates: 1938
  • Description: The Bonus Bill
    Dates: 1921
  • Description: The Bonus Bill
    Dates: 1922
  • Description: Borah on the Constitution
  • Description: The Brownsville Affair
    Dates: 1908
  • Description: Conscription
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: Conservation of Natural Resources
    Dates: 1910
  • Description: The Consumer and Small Business
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: The Constitution of the United States of America and the United States Supreme Court
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: [Constitutional Government]
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: Constitutional Government
    Dates: 1937
  • Description: Control of Monopoly
    Dates: 1937
  • Description: Currency Expansion
    Dates: 1932
  • Description: Delay in Legislation
    Dates: 1924
  • Description: Delegation of Power
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: The Denby Resolution - Impeachment
    Dates: 1924
  • Description: The Depression - Debts
    Dates: 1933
  • Description: The Direct Primary
    Dates: 1922
  • Description: During the Debate on Woman Suffrage, The Question of the 15th Amendment Interfering with the Securing of Suffrage for Women Came into the Debate
    Dates: 1919
  • Description: The Economic Situation
    Dates: 1932
  • Description: The Eighteenth Amendment
    Dates: 1926
  • Description: Election of Senators by Direct Vote
    Dates: 1911
  • Description: Election of Senators by the People
    Dates: 1911
  • Description: Farm Bill
    Dates: 1937
  • Description: The Farm Problem
    Dates: 1929
  • Description: Farm Relief
    Dates: 1926
  • Description: Farm Relief
    Dates: 1928
  • Description: The Farmer and Free Ships
    Dates: 1914
  • Description: The Farmer and the Tariff
    Dates: 1928
  • Description: The Farmer's Enemy
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: Fascism
    Dates: 1937
  • Description: Federal Relief - The Depression
    Dates: 1932
  • Description: Food - Intoxicating Liquors
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: Food Speculators
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: Foreign Affairs
    Dates: 1938
  • Description: Foreign Affairs
    Dates: 1939
  • Description: Forestry and Public Lands
    Dates: 1912
  • Description: Forget Not America
    Dates: 1925
  • Description: The German Treaty
    Dates: 1921
  • Description: Gold Standard Bill
    Dates: 1933
  • Description: How to Meet the Issue
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: Immigration
    Dates: 1912
  • Description: Immigration - After the War
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: Income Tax
    Dates: 1909
  • Description: Income Tax
    Dates: 1910
  • Description: Inheritance Tax
    Dates: 1926
  • Description: The Integrity of the Constitution
    Dates: 1926
  • Description: Integrity of the States
    Dates: 1909
  • Description: Integrity of the States
    Dates: 1938
  • Description: The Lawyer and the Public
    Dates: 1916
  • Description: The League Court
    Dates: 1926
  • Description: League of Nations
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: League of Nations
    Dates: 1919
  • Description: Liberty's Crucial Hour
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: Lincoln the Orator
    Dates: 1911
  • Description: The Lowering of the Draft Age
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: M. Clemenceau
    Dates: 1922
  • Description: Modern Militarism
    Dates: 1916
  • Description: The Money Question
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: Monopoly
    Dates: 1913
  • Description: Munition Manufacturers Should be Curbed
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: National Defense
    Dates: 1916
  • Description: National Republican League and the League of Republican State Clubs
    Dates: 1915
  • Description: Neutral
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: Neutrality
    Dates: 1939
  • Description: The Newberry Case
    Dates: 1922
  • Description: The Nicaraguan Situation
    Dates: 1927
  • Description: No Entangling Alliances
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: Obedience to Law
    Dates: 1911
  • Description: Obedience to Law
    Dates: 1929
  • Description: Open Diplomacy
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: Our Foreign Policy
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: Peace
  • Description: Philippine Independence
    Dates: 1933
  • Description: The Pioneer and Democracy
  • Description: Political and Economic Conditions
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: Political Prisoners
    Dates: 1923
  • Description: The Power of the Executive to Withdraw Public Lands
    Dates: 1910
  • Description: The President's Indianapolis Speech
    Dates: 1915
  • Description: Profiteers
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: Progressive Conference
    Dates: 1931
  • Description: Protection of Citizens in Foreign Countries
    Dates: 1928
  • Description: Public Land Laws
    Dates: 1912
  • Description: Public Opinion Outlaws War
    Dates: 1924
  • Description: Public Ownership of Water Power
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: Purchasing Power
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: Reciprocal Tariff Agreements
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: Recovery Retarded
    Dates: 1938
  • Description: Reorganization Bill - Forest Service
    Dates: 1938
  • Description: Repeal
    Dates: 1933
  • Description: Repeal of Inheritance Tax
    Dates: 1928
  • Description: Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
    Dates: 1932
  • Description: Republican Get-Together Meeting
    Dates: 1914
  • Description: Resolution Declaring State of War
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: Restore the Antitrust Laws
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: Russia
    Dates: 1931
  • Description: Sales Tax
    Dates: 1932
  • Description: Secret Treaties - Shantung
    Dates: 1919
  • Description: Senator from Wisconsin [Isaac Stephenson]
    Dates: 1912
  • Description: Settlement of International Debts
    Dates: 1927
  • Description: Shall the World be Governed by Military Force?
    Dates: 1919
  • Description: Ship Subsidy - Bonus Taxes
    Dates: 1922
  • Description: Ship Subsidy - Farm Credits - Freight Rates
    Dates: 1922
  • Description: The Smith-Vare Cases
    Dates: 1927
  • Description: The Spy Bill
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: The Steel Industry Under the Code
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: Strong Navy
    Dates: 1916
  • Description: The Supreme Court
    Dates: 1937
  • Description: Supreme Court's NRA Decision
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: The Tariff
    Dates: 1913
  • Description: The Tariff
    Dates: 1929
  • Description: The Tariff
    Dates: 1930
  • Description: The Tariff - Income Tax
    Dates: 1913
  • Description: The Tariff on Sugar
    Dates: 1930
  • Description: Tax Burden - Waste of Public Funds
    Dates: 1924
  • Description: Tax Reduction
    Dates: 1924
  • Description: The Time to Do Justice to the Agriculture Interests Is Right Now in this Session
    Dates: 1929
  • Description: Trade Commission - Monopoly
    Dates: 1914
  • Description: The Traffic Club of New York
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: Treaty with Columbia
    Dates: 1921
  • Description: Ulysses S. Grant
    Dates: 1910
  • Description: The United States Policy Toward Haiti
    Dates: 1922
  • Description: The United States Supreme Court
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: The Versailles Treaty
    Dates: 1921
  • Description: Veto Message Relating to the Agriculture Surplus Control Act
    Dates: 1928
  • Description: Vote on the Tariff Bill - Debenture
    Dates: 1930
  • Description: War Debts
    Dates: 1932
  • Description: War Expenditures - The War Situation
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: War Revenue - War Profits
    Dates: 1917
  • Description: War Tax - Extravagance
    Dates: 1914
  • Description: The Warren Appointment
    Dates: 1925
  • Description: Washington
    Dates: 1918
  • Description: Washington's Foreign Policy
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: Waste of Public Funds
    Dates: 1921
  • Description: We are not Going Back
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: The Young Republican Clubs of New York
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: Borah Assails Government Trends
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: Article by Senator Borah - Outlawry of War by Walter E. Edge
    Dates: 1928
  • Description: Congress Must Remain in Session by John Thomas
    Dates: 1940
  • Description: Let the American Sugar Industry Live by John Thomas
    Dates: 1940
  • Description: Why I Am for Senator Borah by Hamilton Fish Jr.
    Dates: 1936
  • Description: Wm. E. Borah: Destructionist or Constructionist? by Ray McKaig

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Subject Terms

  • Idaho--Politics and government--20th century
  • Legislators--Idaho
  • Political campaigns--Idaho
  • Republican Party (Idaho)

Finding aid prepared by Cheryl Oestreicher
2014

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