Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#3172
LINDSAY C. WARREN PAPERS
Abstract: Lindsay Carter Warren of Washington, N.C., was a lawyer,
legislator, active Democrat, member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from North Carolina's 1st District, 1925-1940,
and comptroller general of the United States, 1940-1945.
Papers, primarily 1924-1954, include Warren's
correspondence with constituents, friends, and associates in
Beaufort County and other parts of northeastern North Carolina,
and in Congress, and with federal officials on affairs of his
district. Many earlier papers were destroyed by fire. There are
papers pertaining to Warren's special interests in agricultural
legislation, particularly pertaining to potatoes and peanuts; the
United States Coast Guard; river and harbor legislation, waterways,
and the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; hunting, fishing,
and game conservation and regulation; the Cape Hatteras National
Seashore; highway development; congressional and governmental
reorganizations; and government accounting, as chairman of the House
Committee on Accounts. Also included are papers relating to his
membership on the North Carolina constitutional commission of 1931-1932.
Papers after 1940 are mostly personal. Scattered items relating to the
position of comptroller general, and reports, testimony, speeches,
and clippings, 1940-1954, are mounted in scrapbooks and other volumes.
Prominent correspondents included are Josiah Bailey, William B. Bankhead,
G. A. Barden, W. J. Boyd, John Cochran, C. W. Darden, J. C. B. Ehringhaus,
Bruce Etheridge, E. G. Flanagan, Oliver Max Gardner, John Nance Garner,
Clyde R. Hoey, W. E. Hooks, John H. Kerr, John McDuffie, Harry McMullan,
Lee S. Overman, J. B. Pierce, W. O. Saunders, Furnifold Simmons, and
Ford Worthy. Early papers of Herbert Bonner, Warren's secretary and
successor as United States representative, are also present.
Dates: 1916-1968 (bulk 1924-1954)
Physical Description: About 37,000 items (43.5 linear feet).
Access: No restrictions.
Copyright: Retained by heirs of the authors of writings
in these papers, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
Provenance: Gift of Lindsay C. Warren and family, beginning in
1930. The material added to the papers in 1965 resulted
from a transfer of material from the papers of Herbert
C. Bonner, Warren's former secretary and his successor
as congressman.
Accessions, 1930-1983, and their extent as estimated at the time of deposit.
Note that accessions one through six have been interfiled.
1. Accession of 1930 (42 items)
2. Accession of 1954 (about 32.0 cubic feet)
3. Accession of 1957 (3 items)
4. Accession of 1963 (about 0.5 cubic feet)
5. Accession of 1964 (about 0.1 cubic feet)
6. Accession of 1965 (6.0 cubic feet)
7. Accession of 1968 (6.0 cubic feet)
8. Accession of 1978 (8.0 cubic feet)
9. Accession of 1983 (2.0 cubic feet)
CONTAINER LIST
Box 1 Papers, 1905-1927 Folders 1-50
Box 2 Papers, 1928-1929 Folders 51-92
Box 3 Papers, 1930-April 1932 Folders 93-135
Box 4 Papers, May 1932-April 1934 Folders 136-173
Box 5 Papers, May 1934-April 1935 Folders 174-209
Box 6 Papers, May 1935-January 1936 Folders 210-248
Box 7 Papers, February 1936-May 1937 Folders 249-285
Box 8 Papers, June 1937-June 1938 Folders 286-305
Box 9 Papers, July 1938-July 1939 Folders 306-334
Box 10 Papers, August 1939-April 1940 Folders 335-351
Box 11 Papers, May 1940-1943 Folders 352-396
Box 12 Papers, 1944-1950 Folders 397-439
Box 13 Papers, 1951-1955 Folders 440-485
Box 14 Papers, 1956-April 1961 Folders 486-561
Box 15 Papers, May 1961-1964 and undated Folders 562-623
Box 16 Rivers and Harbors, Folders 624-646
December 1925-September 1940
Box 17 Volumes 1-5
Box 18 Volumes 6-10
Box 19 Volumes 11-14
Box 20 Volumes 15-18
Box 21 Volumes 19-23
Box 22 Volumes 24-28
Box 23 Volumes 29-32
Box 24 Addition of 1968 Folders 647-655
Box 25 Addition of 1978 Folders 656-677
Photographs, articles, clippings
Box 26 Addition of 1978 Folders 678-693
Speeches, journals, letters,
pamphlets, clippings, miscellaneous
Box 27 Addition of 1981
Folder 694 Camden P.O., 1928-1929
Folder 695 Currituck P.O., 1928-1929
Folder 696-697 Pasquotank County election results, 1924
Folder 698 Soil Erosion, 1935
Folder 699-708 Invitations, 1933-1937
Folder 709-710 Kill Devil Hills Memorial, Kitty Hawk
Folder 711-725 Home Owners' Loan Bank, 1932-1937
Folder 726-727 Kitty Hawk Memorial, 1927-1931
Folder 728-729 Belhaven Inland Waterway Celebration,
1928
Folder 730-731 Kill Devil Hills Memorial, Kitty Hawk
Folder 732-740 Letters, Miscellaneous, 1925
Folder 741 West Point and Annapolis: Appointments,
1931
Folder 742-756 Correspondence: Constituents, 1935-1936
Folder 757-760 North Carolina Constitution Commission,
1934-1936
Box 28 Addition of November 1983
Miscellaneous office files, circa 1924-1940,
of Congressman Lindsay Warren, consisting of
correspondence with congressmen, constituents,
and public officials in North Carolina about
such topics as public roads, river, harbor, and
canal improvements, and national relief and recovery
efforts during the Great Depression. Also included
are copies of speeches by Warren during the 1920s
and 1930s and photographs of people and places in
Eastern North Carolina.
Details of the provenance of these office files are
uncertain. Warren's son, Lindsay C. Warren Jr., found
them at the Warren family home and arranged for their
transfer to the Southern Historical Collection in
November 1983.
Folder 761 Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, circa
1927
Folder 762-764 House Resolution 3441 (1930) relief bill
Folder 765 Tyrrell County: Election of 1924
Folder 766-770 Members of Congress: Correspondence,
1926-1929
Folder 771-785 "Foreign Mess," April 7, 1933-November
1937"
Folder 786 Roads Committee, North Carolina Roads,
Federal Bridges, and Hyde County
Roads
Folder 787-797 Elizabeth City Short Cut, 1933-1937
Folder 798 Federal Aid for Roads, 1932-1933
Folder 799 Federal Aid Road Law, 1928
Folder 800-801 Charles Brantley Aycock Statue,
1929-1932
Folder 802 Bureau of Fisheries, 1935
Folder 803 Invitations, 1933-1934
Folder 804 "Legislative Mess": Correspondence,
1927-1928
Folder 805-810 Members of 22nd Congress: Correspondence,
1931-1933
Folder 811-815 Public Roads: Miscellaneous
correspondence, 1928-1938
Folder 816 Copy of "Round Robin" statement of
members of the North Carolina House
of Representatives against the
Nineteenth Amendment, 1920
Folder 817 "Letters about my father, Chas. T.
Warren," 1914
Folder 818 "Observations on the Debate in N.C. on
the 19th Amendment, 1919-1920"
Folder 819 Speeches, 1924
Folder 820 Speeches, 1926-1928
Folder 821 Speeches, 1932-1933
Folder 822 Speeches, 1937-1940
Folder 823 Speeches, undated
Folder 824 "Historical Revelations," by Joseph
Lacy Seawell
Folder 825 Notes, undated
Folder 826 Miscellaneous: Clippings
Folder 827 Miscellaneous: Printed material
Folder 828 Miscellaneous: Court cases
Folder 829 Miscellaneous: Election materials
Folder 830 Miscellaneous: Programs, passports, and
other memorabilia
Box 29 Addition from Bonner files, Folders 821-839
August-October 1940
Items Separated
Oversize Papers: Certificate of Election of the United
States Congress 8 January 1924 (OP-3172/1); Certificate,
States' Conference, 20 October 1925 (OP-3172/2)
Pictures: About 75 photographs, circa 1925-1940, relating
to Lindsay C. Warren and his activities as a congressman.
Included are photographs of Roanoke Island, fishing
activities along the Outer Banks, and road conditions in
Hyde and Camden counties, N.C., in the 1930s (P-3172)