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Collection Number: 03172

Collection Title: Lindsay C. Warren Papers, 1894-1968

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Size 47.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 37000 items)
Abstract Warren, of Washington, N.C., was a lawyer, legislator, active Democrat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 1st District, 1925-1940, and comptroller general of the United States, 1940-1945. Papers, primarily 1924 to 1954, include Warren's correspondence with constituents, friends, and associates in Beaufort County and other parts of northeastern North Carolina, and in Congress, and with federal officials on affairs of his district. Many earlier papers were destroyed by fire. There are papers pertaining to Warren's special interests in agricultural legislation, particularly pertaining to potatoes and peanuts; the United States Coast Guard; river and harbor legislation, waterways, and the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; hunting, fishing, and game conservation and regulation; the Cape Hatteras National Seashore; Fort Raleigh and Virginia Dare memorial; highway development; congressional and governmental reorganizations; and government accounting, as chairman of the House Committee on Accounts. Also included are papers relating to his membership on the North Carolina constitutional commission of 1931-1932. Papers after 1940 are mostly personal. Scattered items relating to the position of comptroller general, and reports, testimony, speeches, and clippings, 1940-1954, are mounted in scrapbooks and other volumes. Prominent correspondents included are Josiah Bailey, William B. Bankhead, G. A. Barden, W. J. Boyd, John Cochran, C. W. Darden, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Bruce Etheridge, E. G. Flanagan, Oliver Max Gardner, John Nance Garner, Clyde R. Hoey, W. E. Hooks, John H. Kerr, John McDuffie, Harry McMullan, Lee S. Overman, J. B. Pierce, W. O. Saunders, Furnifold Simmons, and Ford Worthy. Early papers of Herbert Bonner, Warren's secretary and successor as United States representative, are also present.
Creator Warren, Lindsay C. (Lindsay Carter), 1889-1976.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Lindsay C. Warren Papers #3172, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gift of Lindsay C. Warren and family, beginning in 1930. The material added to the papers in 1965 resulted from a transfer of material from the papers of Herbert C. Bonner, Warren's former secretary and his successor as congressman. Addition of December 2016 received from Emily McNair and Adrienne Northington (Acc. 103029).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: the staff of the Southern Historical Collection, 1930-1984

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, December 2021

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Papers, primarily 1924 to 1954, include Warren's correspondence with constituents, friends, and associates in Beaufort County and other parts of northeastern North Carolina, and in Congress, and with federal officials on affairs of his district. Many earlier papers were destroyed by fire. There are papers pertaining to Warren's special interests in agricultural legislation, particularly pertaining to potatoes and peanuts; the United States Coast Guard; river and harbor legislation, waterways, and the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; hunting, fishing, and game conservation and regulation; the Cape Hatteras National Seashore; Fort Raleigh and Virginia Dare memorial; highway development; congressional and governmental reorganizations; and government accounting, as chairman of the House Committee on Accounts. Also included are papers relating to his membership on the North Carolina constitutional commission of 1931-1932. Papers after 1940 are mostly personal. Scattered items relating to the position of comptroller general, and reports, testimony, speeches, and clippings, 1940-1954, are mounted in scrapbooks and other volumes. Prominent correspondents included are Josiah Bailey, William B. Bankhead, G. A. Barden, W. J. Boyd, John Cochran, C. W. Darden, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Bruce Etheridge, E. G. Flanagan, Oliver Max Gardner, John Nance Garner, Clyde R. Hoey, W. E. Hooks, John H. Kerr, John McDuffie, Harry McMullan, Lee S. Overman, J. B. Pierce, W. O. Saunders, Furnifold Simmons, and Ford Worthy. Early papers of Herbert Bonner, Warren's secretary and successor as United States representative, are also present.

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Contents list

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Folder 694

Camden P.O., 1928-1929

Folder 695

Currituck P.O., 1928-1929

Folder 696-697

Folder 696

Folder 697

Pasquotank County election results, 1924

Folder 698

Soil Erosion, 1935

Folder 699-708

Folder 699

Folder 700

Folder 701

Folder 702

Folder 703

Folder 704

Folder 705

Folder 706

Folder 707

Folder 708

Invitations, 1933-1937

Folder 709-710

Folder 709

Folder 710

Kill Devil Hills Memorial, Kitty Hawk

Folder 711-725

Folder 711

Folder 712

Folder 713

Folder 714

Folder 715

Folder 716

Folder 717

Folder 718

Folder 719

Folder 720

Folder 721

Folder 722

Folder 723

Folder 724

Folder 725

Home Owners' Loan Bank, 1932-1937

Folder 726-727

Folder 726

Folder 727

Kitty Hawk Memorial, 1927-1931

Folder 728-729

Folder 728

Folder 729

Belhaven Inland Waterway Celebration, 1928

Folder 730-731

Folder 730

Folder 731

Kill Devil Hills Memorial, Kitty Hawk

Folder 732-740

Folder 732

Folder 733

Folder 734

Folder 735

Folder 736

Folder 737

Folder 738

Folder 739

Folder 740

Letters, Miscellaneous, 1925

Folder 741

West Point and Annapolis: Appointments, 1931

Folder 742-756

Folder 742

Folder 743

Folder 744

Folder 745

Folder 746

Folder 747

Folder 748

Folder 749

Folder 750

Folder 751

Folder 752

Folder 753

Folder 754

Folder 755

Folder 756

Correspondence: Constituents, 1935-1936

Folder 757-760

Folder 757

Folder 758

Folder 759

Folder 760

North Carolina Constitution Commission, 1934-1936

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Miscellaneous office files, circa 1924-1940, of Congressman Lindsay Warren, consisting of correspondence with congressmen, constituents, and public officials in North Carolina about such topics as public roads, river, harbor, and canal improvements, and national relief and recovery efforts during the Great Depression. Also included are copies of speeches by Warren during the 1920s and 1930s and photographs of people and places in Eastern North Carolina.

Details of the provenance of these office files are uncertain. Warren's son, Lindsay C. Warren Jr., found them at the Warren family home and arranged for their transfer to the Southern Historical Collection in November 1983.

Folder 761

Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, circa 1927

Folder 762-764

Folder 762

Folder 763

Folder 764

House Resolution 3441 (1930) relief bill

Folder 765

Tyrrell County: Election of 1924

Folder 766-770

Folder 766

Folder 767

Folder 768

Folder 769

Folder 770

Members of Congress: Correspondence, 1926-1929

Folder 771-785

Folder 771

Folder 772

Folder 773

Folder 774

Folder 775

Folder 776

Folder 777

Folder 778

Folder 779

Folder 780

Folder 781

Folder 782

Folder 783

Folder 784

Folder 785

"Foreign Mess," April 7, 1933-November 1937

Folder 786

Roads Committee, North Carolina Roads, Federal Bridges, and Hyde County Roads

Folder 787-797

Folder 787

Folder 788

Folder 789

Folder 790

Folder 791

Folder 792

Folder 793

Folder 794

Folder 795

Folder 796

Folder 797

Elizabeth City Short Cut, 1933-1937

Folder 798

Federal Aid for Roads, 1932-1933

Folder 799

Federal Aid Road Law, 1928

Folder 800-801

Folder 800

Folder 801

Charles Brantley Aycock Statue, 1929-1932

Folder 802

Bureau of Fisheries, 1935

Folder 803

Invitations, 1933-1934

Folder 804

"Legislative Mess": Correspondence, 1927-1928

Folder 805-810

Folder 805

Folder 806

Folder 807

Folder 808

Folder 809

Folder 810

Members of 22nd Congress: Correspondence, 1931-1933

Folder 811-815

Folder 811

Folder 812

Folder 813

Folder 814

Folder 815

Public Roads: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1928-1938

Folder 816

Copy of "Round Robin" statement of members of the North Carolina House of Representatives against the Nineteenth Amendment, 1920

Folder 817

"Letters about my father, Chas. T. Warren," 1914

Folder 818

"Observations on the Debate in N.C. on the 19th Amendment, 1919-1920"

Folder 819

Speeches, 1924

Folder 820

Speeches, 1926-1928

Folder 821

Speeches, 1932-1933

Folder 822

Speeches, 1937-1940

Folder 823

Speeches, undated

Folder 824

"Historical Revelations," by Joseph Lacy Seawell

Folder 825

Notes, undated

Folder 826

Miscellaneous: Clippings

Folder 827

Miscellaneous: Printed material

Folder 828

Miscellaneous: Court cases

Folder 829

Miscellaneous: Election materials

Folder 830

Miscellaneous: Programs, passports, and other memorabilia

Folder 831-839

Folder 831

Folder 832

Folder 833

Folder 834

Folder 835

Folder 836

Folder 837

Folder 838

Folder 839

Addition from Bonner files, August-October 1940

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 5. Fort Raleigh and Virginia Dare, 1894-1928 and undated (Addition of December 2016 (Acc.103029)).

Folder 840-848

Folder 840

Folder 841

Folder 842

Folder 843

Folder 844

Folder 845

Folder 846

Folder 847

Folder 848

Correspondence, 1925-1928 and undated

Folder 849-850

Folder 849

Folder 850

Roanoke Colony Memorial Association, 1894-1912 and undated

Folder 851-853

Folder 851

Folder 852

Folder 853

U.S. House of Representatives bills, acts, and reports, 1906-1926 and undated

Folder 854

Clippings, 1926 and undated

Folder 855-856

Folder 855

Folder 856

Printed items, 1925 and undated

Folder 857

Pictures, undated

Extra Oversize Paper XOP-3172/3

Survey for the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association, 1896

"On this site in July-August 1585 (O.S.) Colonists sent out from England by Sir Walter Raleigh built a fort called by them The New Fort in Virginia. These colonists were the first settlers of the English race in America. They returned to England in July 1586. Near this place was born, on the 18 of August 1587, Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in America."

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About 75 photographs, circa 1925-1940, relating to Lindsay C. Warren and his activities as a congressman. Included are photographs of Roanoke Island, fishing activities along the Outer Banks, and road conditions in Hyde and Camden counties, N.C., in the 1930s.

Image Folder PF-3172/1-7

PF-3172/1

PF-3172/2

PF-3172/3

PF-3172/4

PF-3172/5

PF-3172/6

PF-3172/7

Photographs

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3172/1

Oversize photographs

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