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Size | 12.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 9,200 items) |
Abstract | John Milliken Parker (1863-1939) was governor of Louisiana, 1920-1924; member of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange and the New Orleans Board of Trade, the Southern Commercial Congress, and the Mississippi Valley Trade Association; and a national leader of the Progressive Party. The collection consists of papers, chiefly 1909-1920, pertaining to Parker's business activities, including his membership on the New Orleans Board of Trade and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange; his association with the Progressive Party; his management of the Federal Food Administration program in Louisiana during World War I; his term as governor, 1920-1924; and his service as relief administrator during the Mississippi River flood of 1927 (including photographs, some of which depict African Americans). Other topics include the Southern Commercial Congress and opposition to Huey P. Long. |
Creator | Parker, John Milliken, 1863-1939. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Anna Brooke Allan and David C. Knesel, 1962-1971
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, November 2007; updated by Jessica Sedgwick, May 2009
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2021
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John Milliken Parker (1863-1939) was born in Mississippi, was in the cotton business at New Orleans, La., from 1880 onwards, was member of the New Orleans Board of Trade, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Southern Commercial Congress, and was president of the Mississippi Valley Trade Association, 1919. He served as governor of Louisiana from 1920 to 1924 and managed flood relief in Louisiana in 1927. The Progressive Party made Parker its candidate for vice president of the United States in 1916, but the party organization came to an end before the election.
Back to TopThe John Milliken Parker papers, chiefly 1909-1920, pertain to Parker's business activities, including his membership on the New Orleans Board of Trade and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange; his association with the Progressive Party; his management of the Federal Food Administration program in Louisiana during World War I; his term as governor of Louisiana, 1920-1924; and his service as relief administrator during the Mississippi River flood of 1927 (including photographs, some of which depict African Americans). Other topics include the Southern Commercial Congress and opposition to Huey P. Long.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Box 1 |
1902-1908Includes original finding aid. |
Box 2 |
1909: January-March |
Box 3 |
April 1909-1911 |
Oversize Volume SV-1184/4 |
Lettercopy book, 1912Concerning pecan business, cotton shipments, politics, Democratic Good Government League, spring floods in Mississippi Delta. |
Box 4 |
1912-May 1914Materials of 1913 relate in part to a hearing that was held to determine the parents of Bobby Dunbar, a boy kidnapped in 1912 and claimed by two families once found. Parker presided over the hearing. |
Box 5 |
June 1914-May 1916 |
Folder 67-71
Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69Folder 70Folder 71 |
1916: June |
Folder 72-80
Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80 |
1916: July |
Box 7 |
August 1916-July 1917 |
Box 8 |
August 1917-May 1918 |
Box 9 |
June-13 August 1918 |
Box 10 |
14 August-5 September 1918 |
Box 11 |
6 September-23 September 1918 |
Box 12 |
24 September-9 October 1918 |
Box 13 |
10 October-3 November 1918 |
Box 14 |
4 November-12 December 1918 |
Box 15 |
13 December 1918-February 1919 |
Box 16 |
March-15 May 1919 |
Box 17 |
16 May-September 1919 |
Box 18 |
October 1919-21 January 1920 |
Box 19 |
22 January-31 January 1920 |
Box 20 |
February-21 April 1920 |
Box 21 |
22 April 1920-1923 |
Box 22 |
1924-1938 and undated; Looseleaf notebook, 1917-1919Undated materials include correspondence, statements concerning Huey P. Long, Southern Commercial Congress materials, and other papers. Office of the Louisiana Food Administration, containing the printed bulletins of license regulations issued by the United States Food Administration and related releases. |
Box 23-24
Box 23Box 24 |
Miscellaneous papersUndated lists of persons with Louisiana Food Administration, 1917-1918; U.S. Food Administration correspondence, pamphlets, and other papers; chemical analyses of cotton; awards for war service, 1917-1918; Report of the Missouri Council of Defense, 1917-1918-1919 . |
Oversize Volume SV-1184/1-2
SV-1184/1SV-1184/2 |
Scrapbook: Clippings, 1917-1919Regarding United States Food Administration and Mississippi Valley Trade Association |
Oversize Volume SV-1184/3 |
Scrapbook: Clippings, 1926-1930Regarding levee conventions and flood control measures. |
Photograph Album PA-1184/1 |
Photograph album, 1927Pictures of the Mississippi River flood of 1927, including images of refugees, many of whom were African American; rescue efforts; stranded livestock; and homes, buildings, roads, and railroads under water. Mississippi towns and communities depicted include Cairo, Cleveland, Choctaw, Greenville, Helm, Hollandale, Leland, Mounds, Nitta Yuma, Panther Burn, Rolling Fork, Vicksburg, and Yazoo City, among others. Louisiana towns pictures include Baton Rouge, Melville, Hamburg, Delta Point, and other areas and highway scenes. Also included are a few images from Memphis, Tenn. Continued in PA-1184/2. |
Photograph Album PA-1184/2 |
Photograph album, 1927Continuation of PA-1184/1. |