Inventory of the Angus Wilton McLean Papers, 1910-1933

Collection Number 3335


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
Back to Top

Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
McLean, Angus Wilton, 1870-1935.
Title
Angus Wilton McLean Papers, 1910-1933.
Call Number
3335
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
12 volumes (1.0 linear foot).
Abstract
Angus Wilton McLean of Lumberton, N.C., was a lawyer, banker, and active Democrat. He served as a director of the United States War Finance Corporation, 1918-1920; assistant United States secretary of the treasury, 1920- 1921; and as governor of North Carolina, 1925-1929. Letters from Prominent Men (microfilm); nine scrapbooks of clippings pertaining to McLean's career; and a record, 1926, of appointments to office made by McLean as governor. Letters from Prominent Men consists of letters received by McLean between 1912 and 1933, selected from his correspondence and mounted in alphabetical order by name of writer in two volumes. A few of these letters discuss policies of the War Finance Corporation or Democratic Party politics; most of the letters express good wishes upon McLean's entering or leaving office, thanks for letters from McLean, or thanks for signed photographs of him. Writers of the letters include Josiah W. Bailey, Bernard Baruch, Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, William E. Dodd, Herbert Hoover, Claude Kitchin, Cameron Morrison, William G. McAdoo, Lee S. Overman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, F. M. Simmons, Alfred E. Smith, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.


Back to Top

Administrative Information

Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Angus Wilton McLean Papers, #3335, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Back to Top

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Bailey, Josiah William, 1873-1946.
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965.
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933.
Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Democratic Party (N.C.)--History.
Democratic Party (U.S.)--History.
Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Kitchin, Claude, 1869-1923.
McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941.
McLean, Angus Wilton, 1870-1935.
Morrison, Cameron, 1869-1953.
North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Overman, Lee S. (Lee Slater), 1854-1930.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Simmons, Furnifold M. (Furnifold McLendel), 1854-1940.
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944.
Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1879-1954.
United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.
War Finance Corporation (U.S.)--History.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Back to Top

Biographical Note

Angus Wilton McLean of Lumberton, N.C., was a lawyer, banker, and active Democrat. He served as a director of the United States War Finance Corporation, 1918-1920; assistant United States secretary of the treasury, 1920- 1921; and as governor of North Carolina, 1925-1929.

Back to Top

Collection Overview

"Letters from Prominent Men" (microfilm); nine scrapbooks of clippings pertaining to McLean's career; and a record, 1926, of appointments to office made by McLean as governor. "Letters from Prominent Men" consists of letters received by McLean between 1912 and 1933, selected from his correspondence and mounted in alphabetical order by name of writer in two volumes. A few of these letters discuss policies of the War Finance Corporation or Democratic Party politics; most of the letters express good wishes upon McLean's entering or leaving office, thanks for letters from McLean, or thanks for signed photographs of him. Writers of the letters include Josiah W. Bailey, Bernard Baruch, Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, William E. Dodd, Herbert Hoover, Claude Kitchin, Cameron Morrison, William G. McAdoo, Lee S. Overman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, F. M. Simmons, Alfred E. Smith, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.