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Manuscript Collection 1193

• Information about Joseph Taylor Robinson
• Information about the Collection
• Contents of the Collection

The materials in the Joseph Taylor Robinson Papers, Supplement 2, were separated from the Jeff Davis Papers on December 13, 1988.  Robinson, while serving as Governor of Arkansas, was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Davis, who died on January 3, 1913, in the U.S. Senate.

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, press releases, financial records, and other papers pertaining  mostly to the professional, political, and governmental career of Robinson, especially as regards to his role as a Congressman and chairman of the Committee on the Public Lands; the Arkansas gubernatorial election in 1912, mainly congratulatory messages to Robinson on his election as Arkansas Governor; and Robinson's senatorial career.  Specific areas to which records relate include: the National and State Drought Relief Committees' effort to aid the farmers in drought-stricken Arkansas in 1930, the A.B. Banks vs. State court case, the St. Francis Levee District "Sunk Lands" case, and the Natural Gas and Petroleum Company, El Dorado, Arkansas/T. H. Barton case. The papers also include one folder of correspondence, miscellaneous papers, and photographs related to Nevin E. Neal and his work on the biography of Joseph Taylor Robinson ca 1950s.
 
Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries,
Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February 1999.

CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION (1 box)

Box 1

1.  Correspondence pertaining to constituent services and legislative matters, House of Representatives, Mar 1910-Aug 1912.
2.  Correspondence pertaining to constituent services and legislative matters, Senate, Nov 1915-Apr 1918, June 1925-Jan 1927, May 1932.
3.  Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1912.
4.  St. Francis Levee District "Sunk Lands" correspondence, Feb-Apr 1910.
5.  Natural Gas an Petroleum Corporation/T.H. Barton Correspondence and papers, Apr 1925-Jan 1927.
6.  Drought Relief correspondence, June-Sep 1930.
7.  A.B. Banks v. State correspondence, Feb 1930-May 1934.
8.  Speeches and press releases, ca. 1904-1927.
9.  Financial and other records, ca. 1911-1912.
10.  Records pertaining to Nevin E. Neal, 1950s.