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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 date from 1911-1973, and 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 is correspondence, reports, and legal materials related to his service as a Special Investigator appointed by Governor John Moses. Other materials include several folders containing the text of his speeches, legal materials, and a 1973 autobiography entitled “Observations Along the Way.”

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

Several publications were separated and added to the North Dakota Book Collection. This includes four editions of The Red Flame, as well as several publications of the United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. From 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 migrated to Archon in April 2014.

Other URL: http://library.und.edu/holdings.php?id=ODIN_ALEPH006999354

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 & Materials: 1920Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Political Correspondence: 1922-1928Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, Guaranty Fund Commission: 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Briefs and Material, Guaranty Fund Commission: 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Briefs and Material, Guaranty Fund Commission: 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Briefs and Material, Guaranty Fund Commission: 1925-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Briefs and Material, 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 Material: 1930Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Political Correspondence: 1933-34Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Political Correspondence: 1933-34Add to your cart.
Folder 19: IVA Campaign Material, County Reports, 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 Material: 1936Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence and Welfare Board Records: 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Political Correspondence: 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Briefs, Reports, and Other Material of the N.D. Code Revision Committee: 1939- 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Political Correspondence, Investigations: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence and Briefs, Special Investigator and Workmen's Compensation Case: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence and Other Material, Special State Examiner, Issuance of County Bonds. 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence, State Hospital Investigation: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 10: State Hospital Investigation Report, Travel Expenses, Evidence: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence and Legal Documents, KFJM: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Special State Examiner, Official Records and Correspondence of the Removal of Jennie Ulsrud and R.A. Kinzer from Board of Administration: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Correspondence, Report of Corruption, and Evidence, Investigation of State Mill and Elevator, William Langer Administration: 1936-41Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Reports to Governor John Moses Concerning Fraud in State Administration: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Reports and Evidence Collected as Special State Examiner: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Correspondence, Special Investigator of the State Highway Department: 1939-40Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Official Records and Evidence, Investigation of State Highway Department: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Correspondence Concerning Seating of William Langer in the United States Senate: 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Correspondence and Evidence Concerning Work as Special Investigator: 1941Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence and Legal Briefs, Duffy v. Erickson: 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence as Attorney for Petitioners, Moses v. Thorson: 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Legal Documents, Moses v. Thorson: 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence and Official Records, State v. Anderson: 1941-42Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence, Removal of Frank Vogel as Manager of the Bank of North Dakota: 1941-42Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Notes for the Compilation of "Report of the Special Examining Commissioner to the Governor," by A.J. Klaudt: 1943Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Notes for the Compilation of "Report of the Special Examining Commissioner to the Governor," by A.J. Klaudt: 1943Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Action Against Oscar Erickson, State Insurance Commissioner: 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, Campaign Material: 1940Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Political Correspondence: 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Political Correspondence: 1942Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Material Regarding the 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 Material: 1944Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Political Correspondence: 1945-1946Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Correspondence, Liquor Law: 1946; Political Correspondence: 1947-1949Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Political Correspondence, Especially Organization of Republican Organizing Committee (ROC): 1950-1952Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Campaign Material, Precinct Data: 1952Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Political Correspondence: 1953-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Reports and Minutes, ROC: 1953-1954Add to your cart.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Reports, Legislative Measures: 1954-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Reports, Executive Committee of the Citizens Highway Committee: 1955-1956Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Peace Gardens: 1953-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Material Regarding Monopolies and Trusts for 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 Lincoln MaterialAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Material for SpeechesAdd 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: Autobiography: “Observations Along the Way,” by Clyde Duffy: 1973Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Article, “The Building and Loan, Savings and Loan Association and Investment Companies,” by Clyde Duffy. North Dakota Banker: July 1930Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Article, “To What Extent Should the Decisions of Administrative Bodies Be Reviewable by the Courts?” by Clyde Duffy. American Bar Association Journal: October 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Clyde Duffy Campaign Material: 1956, 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Newspaper ClippingsAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Legal Material: Western Surety Company v. City of Devils Lake, 1931Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Legal Material: State of North Dakota v. Jennie Ulsrud and R.A. Kinzer, February 23, 1939, Hearing in the Stutsman County Courthouse, JamestownAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Legal Material: State of North Dakota v. Jennie Ulsrud and R.A. Kinzer, March 6, 1939, Hearing in the State Capitol Building, BismarckAdd 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: Golden Jubilee Edition, Catholic Action News: 1939Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate: April and May 1918Add to your cart.
Folder 25: I.V.A. PlatformAdd to your cart.
Folder 26: Lakota’s 75 YearsAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Langer: 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: Message from the President of the United States to the House of Representatives: February 26, 1931; Message from the President of the United States to the Senate: March 3, 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, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 6Add to your cart.
Folder 1: North Dakota Stockmen’s Association Official Magazine: January 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 2: North Dakota WheatAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Oil Production and Development in North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Our Taxes and the Cost of Our State Government, Joint Campaign CommitteeAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Pembina: North Dakota’s Oldest SettlementAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Pinkerton Detective Agency Report to North Dakota Governor John Miller on the Effort Made to Legalize the Louisiana LotteryAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Prospectus, Great Life Investment Company: May 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 8: The Public Dollar: Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1931 and 1932Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Remarks of Hon. George M. Young of North Dakota in the House of Representatives: 1923Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Report of the North Dakota Budget Board: Biennium, 1939-1941Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Report of the North Dakota Legislative Committee: 1953Add to your cart.
Folder 12: The Roosevelt Record in Red!, Republican National Committee: 1940Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Socialism and Religion, Republican Headquarters, FargoAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Social Science Course of Study, Grade Four, Devils Lake Public SchoolsAdd 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.
Folder 17: State of North Dakota Directory: 1921-1937Add to your cart.
Folder 18: A Volume of Truth in Words and Pictures by Theo G. NelsonAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Vote Right on June 30thAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: Voter’s Guide, Joint Campaign Committee, FargoAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: Water Resources Development Program, North Dakota State Water CommissionAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: What Have North Dakota State Industries Done for You?, Independent Voters Association, BismarckAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Why Did the Attorney General Whitewash the Crooked Insurance Claim at the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium?, by Otto R. VoldAdd to your cart.