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Size | 4.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,500 items) |
Abstract | Louis Addison Dent (1863-1947) was a lawyer who held several federally appointed positions under Republican administrations. This collection chiefly contains letters and correspondence regarding Louis Addison Dent's professional career, particularly 1890-1900, but also includes family correspondence, scrapbooks, and geneological material about the Dent family. The papers primarily concern Dent's personal, public, and professional activities, primarily in 1890-1900, and provide information about Washington, D.C., politics; the machinations behind appointments to various offices; his work for Secretary of State James G. Blaine (1830-1893); foreign affairs, especially in the West Indies, where he visited the United States consulates; abuses in the foreign service during the administration of Grover Cleveland (1837-1908); Dent's appointments to the Jamaican consulate in 1892, 1897-1898; The Spanish-American War; his involvement in the Republican Party; his work as registrar of wills in Washington, D.C., auditor of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, special assistant to the Attorney General, private practice lawyer, and as a member of various commissions, committees, and patriotic and historic societies. Approximately 30 items are correspondence between Dent and Blaine and President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) and his secretaries. |
Creator | Dent, Louis Addison, 1863-1947. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, August 2010
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Louis Addison Dent (1863-1947) was a lawyer who held several federally appointed positions under Republican administrations. He was often associated with James G. Blaine (1830-1893), assisting him with the publication of Twenty Years of Congress and other writings, and acting as Blaine's secretary while he was secretary of state under President Harrison, 1889-1892. During his career he worked as a secretary to various members of congress; consul to Jamaica in 1892, and again in 1897-1898 during the Spanish-American War; auditor of the District of Columbia Supreme Court; an attorney in private practice; faculty member of the National University Law School; special assistant to the Attorney General, 1925-1927; and vice president of Capitol Title and Guarantee Company. Dent was active in the Republican Party, as well as a member of various commissions, committees, and historic and patriotic societies. He also had a great interest in the geneology of his family.
Back to TopThis collection chiefly contains letters and correspondence regarding Louis Addison Dent's (1862-1947) professional career, particularly 1890-1900, but also includes family correspondence, scrapbooks, and geneological material about the Dent family. The papers primarily concern Dent's personal, public, and professional activities, primarily in 1890-1900, and provide information about Washington, D.C., politics; the machinations behind appointments to various offices; his work for Secretary of State James G. Blaine (1830-1893); foreign affairs, especially in the West Indies, where he visited the United States consulates; abuses in the foreign service during the administration of Grover Cleveland (1837-1908); Dent's appointments to the Jamaican consulate in 1892, 1897-1898; The Spanish-American War; his involvement in the Republican Party; his work as registrar of wills in Washington, D.C., auditor of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, special assistant to the Attorney General, private practice lawyer, and as a member of various commissions, committees, and patriotic and historic societies. Approximately 30 items are correspondence between Dent and Blaine and President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) and his secretaries. The scrapbooks primarily contain newspaper clippings relating to law and politics.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.