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• 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.

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.