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Correspondence, memoranda, dispatches, speeches, reports, naval appointments, family papers, printed matter, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Benson's service as U.S. chief of naval operations during World War I. Includes material concerning the naval conference conducted by the Allies (1917), the commission appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to confer with the Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), Allied Naval Armistice Commission, Allied Naval Council, American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920), the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs hearings (1920), and postwar naval disarmament. Also documents Benson's service as commandant of the Philadelphia Naval Yard (1913-1915), his work related to shipping and the merchant marine as chairman and member of the U.S. Shipping Board (1920-1928), and his involvement in Catholic religious and fraternal organizations including his presidency of the National Council of Catholic Men (1921-1925).
Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Philip Andrews, Newton Diehl Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Reginald Rowan Belknap, Tasker Howard Bliss, Montague C. Browning, William Hannum Grubb Bullard, William Banks Caperton, Michael Joseph Curley, Josephus Daniels, Norman H. Davis, Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, James Gibbons, Guy Despard Goff, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Edward N. Hurley, Harry Shepard Knapp, John La Farge, Robert Lansing, Albert Davis Lasker, Peyton Conway March, Samuel McGowan, Albert P. Niblack, C.J. Peoples, John J. Pershing, James D. Phelan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hugh Lenox Scott, William Sowden Sims, Joseph Nathan Teal, Benjamin R. Tillman, Henry B. Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.
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Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920), Disarmament, Peace, Merchant marine, United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Correspondence, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), Allied Naval Armistice Commission, Catholic Church, Navy-yards and naval stations, American Naval operations, United States. Navy, Societies, World War, 1914-1918, United States. American Commission to Negotiate Peace, United States. Shipping Board, Shipping, Allied Naval Council, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.), United States, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs, National Council of Catholic Men (U.S.)People
Newton Diehl Baker (1871-1937), James Gibbons (1834-1921), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Harry Shepard Knapp (1856-1923), Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (1859-1936), Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Norman H. Davis (1878-1944), Guy Despard Goff (1867-1933), Robert Lansing (1864-1928), Albert Davis Lasker (1880-1952), Albert P. Niblack (1859-1929), Samuel McGowan (1870-1934), Benjamin R. Tillman (1847-1918), John La Farge (1880-1963), Edward N. Hurley (1864-1933), Peyton Conway March (1864-1955), C. J. Peoples, William Banks Caperton (1855-1941), Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934), James D. Phelan (1861-1930), Michael Joseph Curley (1879-1947), Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915), Joseph Nathan Teal (1858-1929), Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965), William Sowden Sims (1858-1936), John J. Pershing (1860-1948), William Hannum Grubb Bullard (1866-1927), Reginald Rowan Belknap (1871-1959), Philip Andrews (1866-1945), Henry B. Wilson, Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), Joseph C. Grew (1880-1965), Tasker Howard Bliss (1853-1930), Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Montague C. Browning, Josephus Daniels (1862-1948)Places
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Open to research.
Gift and deposit converted to gift, Howard Hartwell James Benson, 1962-1969.
Transfer, Naval Historical Center (U.S.), 1977.
U.S. naval officer and public official.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
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