oip_mss345 Guide to the William E. Borah Papers 1902-1941 Borah (William E.) Papers Finding aid prepared by Cheryl Oestreicher

Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive Boise, Idaho 83725-1430 Boise, ID, 83725 208-426-3958 archives@boisestate.edu
2014 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-09-17 Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). William E. Borah Papers MSS 345 Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive Boise, Idaho 83725-1430 Boise, ID, 83725 208-426-3958 archives@boisestate.edu
Collection materials are in English. 1.0 linear feet 1902-1941 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. Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940

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.

 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.

Collection is available for research.

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

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

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

 Idaho--Politics and government--20th century Legislators--Idaho Political campaigns--Idaho Republican Party (Idaho) Idaho Campaign Notebooks 1 1-2 1902-1908 Correspondence 1 3 1930-1940 Press Statements 1 4 1939 Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress 1 5 1941 The Adverse Report of the Committee on the Judiciary 1 6 1937 Borah-Butler Debate, The Roosevelt Club 1 7 1927 The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho 1 8 1940 Neutrality Act of 1939, H.J. Res. 306 1 9 1939 Funeral Program 1 10 1940 Photographs 1 11 Photographs 1 Articles 1 Excerpts of Speeches 1 12 1918, 1937-1939 Admission of New Mexico and Arizona - Recall of Judges 1911 The Alternative 1914 An American Fireside - with Norman Hapgood and Sherman Mittell 1935 American Foreign Policy in a Nationalistic World 1934 Americanism 1939 Andrew Hamilton 1934 The Antilynching Bill 1938 Arbitration with Mexico 1927 Armaments - Taxation 1929 Armed Merchant Ships 1916 Balancing the Budget 1933 The Beer Bill 1933 Boise Exchange Club 1938 The Bonus Bill 1921 The Bonus Bill 1922 Borah on the Constitution The Brownsville Affair 1908 Conscription 1917 Conservation of Natural Resources 1910 The Consumer and Small Business 1934 The Constitution of the United States of America and the United States Supreme Court 1936 [Constitutional Government] 1936 Constitutional Government 1937 Control of Monopoly 1937 Currency Expansion 1932 Delay in Legislation 1924 Delegation of Power 1934 The Denby Resolution - Impeachment 1924 The Depression - Debts 1933 The Direct Primary 1922 During the Debate on Woman Suffrage, The Question of the 15th Amendment Interfering with the Securing of Suffrage for Women Came into the Debate 1919 The Economic Situation 1932 The Eighteenth Amendment 1926 Election of Senators by Direct Vote 1911 Election of Senators by the People 1911 Farm Bill 1937 The Farm Problem 1929 Farm Relief 1926 Farm Relief 1928 The Farmer and Free Ships 1914 The Farmer and the Tariff 1928 The Farmer's Enemy 1936 Fascism 1937 Federal Relief - The Depression 1932 Food - Intoxicating Liquors 1917 Food Speculators 1917 Foreign Affairs 1938 Foreign Affairs 1939 Forestry and Public Lands 1912 Forget Not America 1925 The German Treaty 1921 Gold Standard Bill 1933 How to Meet the Issue 1935 Immigration 1912 Immigration - After the War 1918 Income Tax 1909 Income Tax 1910 Inheritance Tax 1926 The Integrity of the Constitution 1926 Integrity of the States 1909 Integrity of the States 1938 The Lawyer and the Public 1916 The League Court 1926 League of Nations 1918 League of Nations 1919 Liberty's Crucial Hour 1918 Lincoln the Orator 1911 The Lowering of the Draft Age 1918 M. Clemenceau 1922 Modern Militarism 1916 The Money Question 1934 Monopoly 1913 Munition Manufacturers Should be Curbed 1934 National Defense 1916 National Republican League and the League of Republican State Clubs 1915 Neutral 1917 Neutrality 1939 The Newberry Case 1922 The Nicaraguan Situation 1927 No Entangling Alliances 1917 Obedience to Law 1911 Obedience to Law 1929 Open Diplomacy 1918 Our Foreign Policy 1935 Peace Philippine Independence 1933 The Pioneer and Democracy Political and Economic Conditions 1936 Political Prisoners 1923 The Power of the Executive to Withdraw Public Lands 1910 The President's Indianapolis Speech 1915 Profiteers 1918 Progressive Conference 1931 Protection of Citizens in Foreign Countries 1928 Public Land Laws 1912 Public Opinion Outlaws War 1924 Public Ownership of Water Power 1918 Purchasing Power 1935 Reciprocal Tariff Agreements 1934 Recovery Retarded 1938 Reorganization Bill - Forest Service 1938 Repeal 1933 Repeal of Inheritance Tax 1928 Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment 1932 Republican Get-Together Meeting 1914 Resolution Declaring State of War 1917 Restore the Antitrust Laws 1935 Russia 1931 Sales Tax 1932 Secret Treaties - Shantung 1919 Senator from Wisconsin [Isaac Stephenson] 1912 Settlement of International Debts 1927 Shall the World be Governed by Military Force? 1919 Ship Subsidy - Bonus Taxes 1922 Ship Subsidy - Farm Credits - Freight Rates 1922 The Smith-Vare Cases 1927 The Spy Bill 1917 The Steel Industry Under the Code 1934 Strong Navy 1916 The Supreme Court 1937 Supreme Court's NRA Decision 1935 The Tariff 1913 The Tariff 1929 The Tariff 1930 The Tariff - Income Tax 1913 The Tariff on Sugar 1930 Tax Burden - Waste of Public Funds 1924 Tax Reduction 1924 The Time to Do Justice to the Agriculture Interests Is Right Now in this Session 1929 Trade Commission - Monopoly 1914 The Traffic Club of New York 1918 Treaty with Columbia 1921 Ulysses S. Grant 1910 The United States Policy Toward Haiti 1922 The United States Supreme Court 1936 The Versailles Treaty 1921 Veto Message Relating to the Agriculture Surplus Control Act 1928 Vote on the Tariff Bill - Debenture 1930 War Debts 1932 War Expenditures - The War Situation 1917 War Revenue - War Profits 1917 War Tax - Extravagance 1914 The Warren Appointment 1925 Washington 1918 Washington's Foreign Policy 1936 Waste of Public Funds 1921 We are not Going Back 1936 The Young Republican Clubs of New York 1934 Borah Assails Government Trends 1934 Article by Senator Borah - Outlawry of War by Walter E. Edge 1928 Congress Must Remain in Session by John Thomas 1940 Let the American Sugar Industry Live by John Thomas 1940 Why I Am for Senator Borah by Hamilton Fish Jr. 1936 Wm. E. Borah: Destructionist or Constructionist? by Ray McKaig