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Clyde Duffy Papers, 1911-1973

Collection Overview

Title: Clyde Duffy Papers, 1911-1973

ID: OGLMC/0052

Creator: Duffy, F. Clyde (1890-1977)

Extent: 6.75 Linear Feet

Languages: English [eng]

Abstract

1890-1977; Active member of the Republican Party; North Dakota State Senator, 1948-1956, and Lieutenant Governor, 1956-1958

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Clyde Duffy Papers, 1911-1973, consist mainly of correspondence. Duffy was an active member of the North Dakota Republican Party, and this is reflected in the large amount of political correspondence in the collection. Also included are correspondence, reports, and legal materials related to his service as a Special Investigator appointed by Governor John Moses. Other materials include texts of his speeches, legal documents, and a 1973 autobiography titled “Observations Along the Way.”

The collection was reprocessed in January 2005; materials housed in Boxes 5 and 6 were rearranged and placed into acid-free folders. Researchers should note that some items listed as being in these two boxes were not found when the collection was reprocessed. The items in question consisted mainly of various political pamphlets collected by Duffy.

Several publications were separated and added to the North Dakota Book Collection. These includes four issues of The Red Flame, as well as several publications of the United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. In 1941 and 1942, this committee investigated claims the Langer was not entitled to his Senate seat due to misconduct “as a public officer and as an attorney at law.” The committee ultimately recommended that Langer should not be seated, although the entire Senate voted 52-30 to seat Langer.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Method: Donation; The acquisition records are unavailable

Separated Materials:

Several publications were separated and added to the North Dakota Book Collection:

The Red Flame: volume 1, numbers 1, 3, 4, and 5

Hearing Before the Committee on Privileges and Elections, United States Senate, on the Protest by Various Citizens of North Dakota to the Seating of William Langer, as a Senator from the State of North Dakota. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1941.

Report and Memorandum of Information Submitted to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, United States Senate, on the Protest by Various Citizens of North Dakota to the Seating of William Langer, as a Senator from the State of North Dakota. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1941.

Report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections on the Various Citizens of the State of North Dakota to the Seating of William Langer, as a Senator from the State of North Dakota. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1942.

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Clyde Duffy Papers. OGLMC 52, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in April 2014.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Family Correspondence, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence - War Effort and Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, 1918-1919Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence - Knights of Columbus, 1928-1941Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence - Devils Lake Chamber of Commerce, 1932-1938Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Political Correspondence, 1916-1918Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Independent Voters Association (IVA) Organization Lists and Materials, 1920Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Political Correspondence, 1922-1928Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Guaranty Fund Commission correspondence, 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Guaranty Fund Commission, 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Guaranty Fund Commission, 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Guaranty Fund Commission, 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Guaranty Fund Commission, 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Correspondence - M.W. Duffy's Campaign for Secretary of State, 1928Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Political Correspondence - IVA Campaign, 1930Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Political Correspondence - IVA Campaign, 1932Add to your cart.
Folder 16: IVA Campaign, 1930Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Political Correspondence, 1933-1934Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Political Correspondence, 1933-1934Add to your cart.
Folder 19: IVA Campaign - County Reports and Campaign Organization, 1934Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Political Correspondence, 1935-1936Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Correspondence - State Bar Association (Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee; Frazier-Lemke Moratorium Act), 1936-1938Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Political Correspondence, 1936Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Political Campaign, 1936Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Welfare Board - Correspondence and Records, 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Political Correspondence, 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 5: North Dakota Code Revision Committee - Briefs, Reports, etc., 1939-1941Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Political Correspondence - Investigations, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Special Investigator and Workmen's Compensation Case -  Correspondence and Briefs, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Special State Examiner Issuance of County Bonds - Correspondence, etc., 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 9: State Hospital Investigation - Correspondence, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 10: State Hospital Investigation Report - Travel Expenses and Evidence, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 11: KFJM - Correspondence and Legal Documents, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Special State Examiner - Official Records and Correspondence of removal of Jennie Ulsrud and R.A. Kinzer from Board of Administration, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 13: State Mill and Elevator Investigation (Langer Administration) - Correspondence and Evidence, 1936-1941Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Reports to Governor Moses concerning Fraud in State Administration, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Special State Examiner - Reports and Evidence, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Special Investigator of State Highway Department - Correspondence, 1939-1940Add to your cart.
Folder 17: State Highway Department Investigation - Records and Evidence, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Seating of Senator Langer - Correspondence, 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Special Investigator - Correspondence and Evidence, 1941Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Duffy vs. Erickson - Correspondence and Legal Briefs, 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Moses vs. Thorson - Correspondence as Attorney for Petitioners, 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Moses vs. Thorson - Legal Documents, 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 4: State vs. Anderson - Correspondence and Official Records, 1941-1942Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Removal of Frank Vogel as Bank of North Dakota Manager - Correspondence, 1941-1942Add to your cart.
Folder 6: "Report of the Special Examining Commissioner to the Governor," by A.J. Klaudt - Compilation Notes, 1943Add to your cart.
Folder 7: "Report of the Special Examining Commissioner to the Governor," by A.J. Klaudt - Compilation Notes, 1943Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Action against State Insurance Commissioner Oscar Erickson, 1943-1945Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Political Correspondence, 1940Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Political Correspondence, 1940Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Wilkie-McNary Club of Ramsey County - Membership Information and Campaign Materials, 1940Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Political Correspondence, 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Political Correspondence, 1942Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Graduated Land Tax, 1942Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Political Correspondence, 1943Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Political Correspondence, 1944Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Campaign Materials, 1944Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Political Correspondence, 1945-1946Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Liquor Law and Political Correspondence, 1946-1949Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Political Correspondence, 1950-1952Add to your cart.
Especially for Organization of the Republican Organizing Committee (ROC)
Folder 21: Campaign Materials and Precinct Data, 1952Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Political Correspondence, 1953-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 23: ROC - Reports and Minutes, 1953-1954Add to your cart.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Legislative Measures - Reports, 1954-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Executive Committee of the Citizens Highway Committee - Reports, 1955-1956Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Peace Gardens, 1953-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Monopolies and Trusts - UND Debates, 1911Add to your cart.
Folder 5: SpeechesAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Speeches - EducationAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: SpeechesAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: SpeechesAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: SpeechesAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: SpeechesAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Abraham LincolnAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Speech materialsAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Campaign SpeechesAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Correspondence, 1960sAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: MiscellaneousAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: MiscellaneousAdd to your cart.
Box 5Add to your cart.
Folder 1: “Observations Along the Way,” (autobiography), 1973Add to your cart.
Folder 2: “The Building and Loan, Savings and Loan Association and Investment Companies,” (article), North Dakota Banker: July 1930Add to your cart.
Folder 3: “To What Extent Should the Decisions of Administrative Bodies Be Reviewable by the Courts?” (article), American Bar Association Journal: October 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Clyde Duffy Campaign Materials, 1956-1958Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Newspaper ClippingsAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Western Surety Company vs. City of Devils Lake, 1931Add to your cart.
Folder 7: State of North Dakota vs. Jennie Ulsrud and R.A. Kinzer, February 23, 1939 (Hearing in the Stutsman County Courthouse, Jamestown)Add to your cart.
Folder 8: State of North Dakota vs. Jennie Ulsrud and R.A. Kinzer, March 6, 1939 (Hearing in the State Capitol Building, Bismarck)Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Special Examiner’s Highway Department Report, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Special Examiner’s Highway Department Report, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 11: “Academic Freedom and Tenure,” Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Spring 1956Add to your cart.
Folder 12: American Bar AssociationAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Americanism vs. Socialism: A Declaration of Principles, Republican State Campaign Committee, Fargo, 1920Add to your cart.
Folder 14: The “Authority” Issue, by Clifford H. StoneAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Better Roads for North Dakota: Engineering Analysis and Recommendations, North Dakota Legislative Committee, November 1952Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Bountiful North Dakota: Land of Opportunity, Greater North Dakota AssociationAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: Devils Lake and Ramsey County Historical InformationAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: An Engineering Study of North Dakota’s Roads and Streets and a Plan for the Future, Automotive Safety Foundation with the North Dakota State Highway Department and the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, September 1952Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Facts and Figures on North Dakota Issues, Republican Campaign CommitteeAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: The Farmer and the New Farm Bill (Speeches by Gerald Nye in the U.S. Senate), December 1937 and April 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Fourteenth Report Senate Investigating Committee on Education, California Legislature, 1956Add to your cart.
Folder 22: General Information Concerning the Legislative Research Committee, Municipal Government, and the 35th North Dakota Legislative AssemblyAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Catholic Action News - Golden Jubilee Edition, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs (United States Senate), 1918Add to your cart.
Folder 25: I.V.A. PlatformAdd to your cart.
Folder 26: Lakota’s 75 YearsAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Hearings Before the Committee on Privileges and Elections, United States Senate: A Protest to the Seating of William Langer, A Senator from the State of North Dakota, November 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Messages from the President of the United States to the House of Representatives and Senate, 1931Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Message to the Legislature by R.A. Nestos, Governor, 1925Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Montana Bar Association, 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 31: National and International Political Issues - Newspaper Clippings, 1930s-1950sAdd to your cart.
Folder 32: Nineteenth and Twentieth Annual Reports of the Board of Administration to the Governor, 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 33: North Dakota Publicity Pamphlet, 1922, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1946, and undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 6Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission, 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 2: State Tuberculosis Sanitarium Insurance Claim Report by Otto R. Vold, 1944Add to your cart.
Folder 3: North Dakota Water Resources Brochure, ca. 1963Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Directories of North Dakota Officials, 1921-22, 1933, 1934, 1937Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Pembina: North Dakota’s Oldest Settlement, 1957Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Pinkerton Detective Agency Report - Legalization of the Louisiana Lottery in North Dakota, 1890Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Great Life Investment Company Prospectus, May 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 8: IVA Voting Information, 1918-1928Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Remarks of Rep. George M. Young regarding agricultural production controls, 1923Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Biennial Report of the North Dakota Budget Board, 1939-1941Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Report of the North Dakota Legislative Research Committee, 1953Add to your cart.
Folder 12: North Dakota Wheat - Correspondence, etc., 1953-1963Add to your cart.
Folder 13: North Dakota Oil Production - Correspondence, etc., 1952-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Social Science Course, Grade Four, Devils Lake Public Schools, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: State Bar Association of North Dakota, 1940-1956Add to your cart.
Folder 16: State Mill and Elevator Audit Report, 1938Add to your cart.