Found 9 collections related to Democratic Party (N.Y.)

Charles Patrick Daly (1816-1899) was an American jurist, lecturer and writer who served as a judge of the New York City Court of Common Pleas for over forty years, the last twenty-seven as chief justice. Maria Lydig Daly, his wife, was active in the Democratic Party and various welfare organizations of the Civil War period. Her diaries of this period were published in 1962 under the title: Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865. Papers include correspondence; legal papers; writings and lectures; personal and legal scrapbooks; and diaries and notebooks. Also included are papers belonging to Maria Daly, wife of Charles P. Daly; of her father, Philip Mesier Lydig; and some letters and accounts of the French-born author and explorer Paul du Chaillu less

The Lexington Democratic Club is a political activist group founded in 1949 to promote a reformist Democratic Party in Manhattan's 9th Assembly District. This collection documents the club's founding, operations, and activities through memorandums, event announcements, planning documents, meeting minutes, financial records, statistical reports, and correspondence. less

Letters and circular letters addressed to Sidney Thompson Fairchild, prominent New York lawyer and counsel for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, from Peter Cagger, secretary of the New York Democratic State Central Committee, and others. Topics include Democratic Party politics in New York and the presidential election of 1856. 45 items less

Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) was an American jurist and politician. He practiced law and held various political positions between 1884 and 1906. Twice elected governor of New York State, he resigned in 1910 to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court where he served until 1916. He returned to political life and was Secretary of State from 1921 to 1925. From 1926 to 1930 he held positions of judge for The Hague Tribunal Permanent Court of Arbitration and member of the Permanent Court of International Justice. He returned to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice in 1930 and served until his retirement in 1941. Collection consists of speeches made by Hughes, articles, memoranda, subject files, printed matter, and photographs. Speeches were made during his political campaigns and terms as governor of New York and cover topics such as women's suffrage, gambling, political corruption, and civil service reform between 1907 and 1910. Subject files include materials on the activities of the Water Supply Commission, the debate about direct nominations, local self-government and lotteries in New York, and the organization of the Democratic Party. less

Frank Ellice Carstarphen (1871-1952), a lawyer who specialized in criminal law, held public office in Colorado and New York and actively campaigned for the Democratic Party. He also wrote stage adaptations of novels. Collection consists of correspondence, typescripts, family and personal papers, photographs, and printed matter. Legal and political correspondence, 1903-1948, includes letters concerning Carstarphen's various positions. Theater correspondence, 1930-1951, contains letters about plays that he and his wife, Anita Carstarphen, adapted from novels. Family correspondence, 1897-1932, consists primarily of letters of Carstarphen to his family with some letters written by other family members. Also, photographs, biographical sketches, personal papers, and newsclippings. less

Nancy L, Granese was press secretary to Democratic candidates in the 1970 New York gubernatorial election. Collection consists of miscellaneous papers relating to the 1970 gubernatorial campaign in New York. Includes copies of press releases, speeches and statements of Eugene H. Nickerson and Robert M. Morgenthau, candidates for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination. less

Azariah Cutting Flagg (1790-1873) was a newspaper editor and politician in New York. The collection consists of letters received, 1821-1848, from Silas Wright, Jr., Michael Hoffman, John A. Dix, R.H. Walworth, W.L. Marcy, Albert Gallatin, Preston King, and others concerning national and local political and economic issues as well as some letters from Flagg to his associates, his notes on periodical articles, and a small amount of printed material. less