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Dublin Core
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Title
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William Gibbs McAdoo Collection
Creator
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Doris Harris Autographs
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914-1940
Description
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The William Gibbs McAdoo Collection consists of just four letters to his wife Eleanor Randolph Wilson. All are of an intimate nature and are handwritten, mainly in pencil. The first combines details of a business trip with a sentimental love letter.
Collection is currently housed in the Small Collections Box, MS100034.
Publisher
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
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Marriage
Federal Reserve banks
McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967
McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941
Contributor
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum staff
Format
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4 letters
Language
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English
Type
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Text
Identifier
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MS000106
Source
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Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation
Is Part Of
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Small Collections
Accrual Method
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Purchase
Provenance
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Purchased c. 1975 by the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation from the Doris Harris Autographs, 5410 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.
Rights Holder
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Archival Finding Aid
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Numeric
Date
99999999
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
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FA000106
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1914-1940
Description
An account of the resource
Letters from William Gibbs McAdoo to his wife Eleanor Wilson McAdoo.
Collection is currently housed in the Small Collections Box, MS100034.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Cataloging of archival materials
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Archival Finding Aid
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum staff
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Title
A name given to the resource
William Gibbs McAdoo Collection Finding Aid
Format
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pdf file
EAD Archive
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Arrangement
Information on how the described materials have been subdivided into smaller units.
Letters are arranged chronologically within one folder housed in the Small Collections document box.
Biography or History
A concise essay or chronology that places the archival materials in context by providing information about their creator(s).
Secretary of the treasury under President Woodrow Wilson, William Gibbs McAdoo was born on 31 October 1863, in Marietta, Georgia. Leaving the University of Tennessee in 1882, McAdoo took a position as deputy clerk of the U.S. Circuit Court in Chattanooga, where he studied law and passed the bar examination in 1885. That same year, McAdoo married Sarah Houston Fleming, who died in 1912 after the couple had six children. McAdoo built a practice in railroad law and gained expertise in the financial aspects of the industry. After moving to New York City, he spearheaded a campaign to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River, which were successfully completed in 1909. An active supporter of Woodrow Wilson, McAdoo briefly ran the 1912 presidential campaign and accepted a seat in the new president’s cabinet as secretary of the treasury.
In 1914, McAdoo married Eleanor Randolph Wilson, and, before divorcing in 1934, they had two children. The energetic McAdoo was responsible for a vastly increased economic role for the federal government when he overhauled the nation’s money supply by initiating the Federal Reserve System and implemented reforms such as banking regulation, tariff reform, and a personal income tax. During World War I, McAdoo played a crucial role, engineering massive loans to European powers and initiating successful Liberty Loan campaigns to finance the War. When the government took over the nation’s railroads, McAdoo was appointed director general and served until the end of the War, when he resigned his cabinet positions and returned to legal practice.
Aligning himself with the Democratic party in California, where he had moved, McAdoo pursued nomination for the presidency in 1924 but was not successful, largely due to his close connections with big business; in 1932, McAdoo won election as a U.S. senator, but lost his seat in 1938. Remarried to Doris Cross in 1935, McAdoo died in Washington, DC, on 1 February 1941.
Level
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Folder
Other Descriptive Data
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Container List
24 January 1914, William Gibbs McAdoo to Eleanor Randolph Wilson
21 August 1916, William Gibbs McAdoo to Eleanor Randolph Wilson
19 January 1928, William Gibbs McAdoo to Eleanor Randolph Wilson
9 January 1940, William Gibbs McAdoo to Eleanor Randolph Wilson
Scope and Content
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The William Gibbs McAdoo Collection consists of only four letters to his wife Eleanor Randolph Wilson. All are of an intimate nature and are handwritten, mainly in pencil. The first combines details of a business trip with a sentimental love letter. Scholars may be interested in a glimpse of the personal side of this public figure.