Preliminary Inventory of the James Cannon Papers, 1869-1989
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleJames Cannon Papers,
1869-1989
Creator
Cannon, James, 1864-1944
Extent
16.07 Linear Feet
12,056 Items
Repository
12,056 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], James Cannon Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
Acquired
Processing Information
Processed by Staff
Encoded by Lisa Stark
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
Methodist clergyman from Virginia, journalist, and leader in the prohibition movement. Also known as James Cannon, Jr.
[top]Collection Overview
Collection contains diaries, correspondence, reports, minutes, journals, articles, legal papers, pamphlets, obituaries, and other papers. Main interests center on the material reflecting Cannon's part in the presidential campaign of 1928; his activities in various state, national, world, and religious temperance associations, the General Conference and the Virginia quarterly conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Methodist missionary enterprises. Other papers pertain to his leadership in the effort to unify the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Church. Correspondents include Harry F. Byrd, Carter Glass, Josephus Daniels, Cordell Hull, Herbert Hoover, Frank Knox, William G. McAdoo, H.L. Mencken, Collins Denny, Gerald P. Nye, Warren A. Candler, Charles Evans Hughes, John R. Mott, Edwin D. Mouzon, Claude A. Swanson, Woodrow Wilson, Charles C. Carlin, Charles Curtis, Walter F. George, Andrew Mellon, Robert F. Wagner, William Hodges Mann, and G.W. Ochs-Oakes.
Incomplete index to the collection included.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Methodist Episcopal Church - Clergy
- Methodist Episcopal Church - Missions
- Prohibition - Societies, etc.
- Presidents - United States - Election - 1928
- Methodist Church - History
- Temperance - United States - Societies, etc.
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Correspondence
1869-1912
Box 2
1913-1920
Box 3
1921-1922
Box 4
1923-1924
Box 5
1925
Box 6
1926
Box 7
1927-1928, Aug.
Box 8
1928, Sept.-Dec.
Box 9
1929, Jan.-Aug.
Box 10
1929, Sept.-Dec.
Box 11
1930
Box 12
1931, Jan.-May
Box 13
1931, June-Oct.
Box 14
1931, Nov.-1933
Box 15
1934
Box 16
1935-1936
Box 17
1937-1941
Box 18
1942-1955,
undated
Writings
1888-1922
Box 20
1923-1927
Box 21
1928-1944,
undated
Box 22
Autobiography (early drafts--Chapters I-III)
Box 23
Autobiography (early drafts--Chapters IV-VI, Misc.)
Box 24
Autobiography (typed copy--Chapters I-VI)
Box 25
Autobiography (typed copy--Chapter VII; carbon copy--Chapters I-V)
Box 26
Autobiography (carbon copy--Chapters VI-VII)
Box 27
Addresses, statements, biographical sketches, and press releases
Box 28
Sermons
Printed Material
undated
Box 30
undated
Clippings
1887-1924
Box 32
1925-1928
Box 33
1929
Box 34
1930
Box 35
1931
Box 36
1931-1932
Clippings
1933-1936
Box 38
1937-1949
Box 39
undated
Pictures
James Cannon, Jr., et. al.
Box 41
Miscellaneous
Volumes
undated
Oversize Material
Oversize Cabinet
OC:I:5:
Pictures, undated
Oversize Cabinet
OC:I:8:
Certificate of Ordination to Episcopal Church
Christian Herald Distinguished Religious Service Award
