Collection Name: Benson, Elmer Austin
Collection Dates: 1895-
Repository Name: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
MN
NIDS Fiche Number: 3.17.140
NUCMC Number: MS 69-1686
Type: Papers
Dates: 1931-1963
Extent: ca. 12 ft. (13,500 items)
Description: Banker, politician, U. S. Senator, and Governor
of Minnesota. Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and
other papers, relating to Benson's support of the domestic policies of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, pardon for Thomas Mooney, the Republican forces in the
Spanish Civil War, and peace and disarmament movements of the 1930s, his
opposition to domestic and foreign policies of the Truman administration, and
to the U. S. cold war policy, and his support of Henry Wallace in the
presidential election of 1948. Includes information on antisemitism and other
aspects of the Minnesota gubernatorial campaign of 1938; affairs of the
Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, including its anti-isolationist forces and
allegations of Communist influence in the party; and the state of the
Progressive Party after the 1948 campaign. Correspondents include John Abt,
Rex Ellingwood Beach, Charles Austin Beard, Alfred M. Bingham, Chester Bowles,
Earl Russell Browder, Harry L. Hopkins, Freda Kirchwey, Max Lerner, Robert
Morss Lovett, Thomas J. Moonev, Richard Lewis Neuberger, Culbert L. Olson,
Paul A. Porter, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Paul Robeson, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, Vincent Sheean, Henry Agard Wallace, James
Russell Wiggins, Aubrey Willis Williams, Howard Yolen Williams, and Stephen
Samuel Wise. Unpublished inventory in the repository. In part, open to
investigators under restrictions accepted by the repository. Information on
literary rights available in the repository. Gift of Mr. Benson, Appleton,
Minn., 1964.
Index Terms: NUCMC
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