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[Identification of item], in the Isidor Rayner Papers, #2823, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1952

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• Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States--History--20th century.
• Democratic Party (Md.)--History.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)--History.
• Lawyers--Maryland--History.
• Maryland--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Maryland--Trials, litigation, etc.--History.
• Rayner, Isidor, 1850-1912.
• Rayner, William B., b. 1872.
• Schley, Winfield Scott, 1839-1911.
• United States. Congress. House--History--19th century.
• United States. Congress. Senate--History--20th century.

Scattered letters and speeches and 11 scrapbooks regarding the political and legal career of Isidor Rayner of Baltimore, Md., United States representative 1887-1889 and 1891-1895, and senator, 1905-1912. The scrapbooks contain clippings and other records of celebrated legal cases conducted by Rayner and his son William B. Rayner, including their defense of Admiral Winfield Scott Schley at a court of inquiry in 1901, and of their activities in state and national Democratic politics.