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Politics and Government -- Nonpartisan League (NPL)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

North Dakota Political Trials Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OGLMC-205
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopied court documents related to several legal cases involving the Nonpartisan League.

Dates: created: 1917-1935

Northern Lights Movie Collection

 Collection — Oversize Folder 1
Identifier: OGLMC-1715
Scope and Contents

Northern Lights was a 1978 film written and directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson. The film dramatized the early history of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota.

Dates: created: 1978-1982

Oral History Interviews Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OGLMC-1213
Scope and Contents

This collection contains oral history interviews recorded on audio cassettes, as well as transcripts of most of the interviews. The interviews were conducted from 1974 to 1990, mostly by members of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Dates: created: 1974-1990; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1990

Roy W. Frazier Papers

 Collection
Identifier: OGLMC-006
Abstract

1883-1959; active in the Nonpartisan League and Republican Party

Dates: created: 1918-1947; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1956

State of Minnesota v. A.C. Townley and Joseph Gilbert

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-092
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the grand jury indictment from the case. Townley and Gilbert were charged with conspiring to advocate that men should not enlist for military service during the First World War and were found guilty on 12 July 1919.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1958

Usher L. Burdick Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OGLMC-021
Abstract

1879-1960; North Dakota House of Representatives (1909-1911), Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (1911-1913), United States House of Representatives (1935-1945, 1949-1959); farmer and rancher

Dates: created: 1881-1960

Walter Welford Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-099
Scope and Contents

The Walter Welford Papers consist primarily of correspondence from Welford's tenure as North Dakota Governor, from 1935 and 1936.

Dates: created: 1935-1936; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1963

William Langer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: OGLMC-019
Abstract

1886-1959; North Dakota Attorney General: 1916-1920, Governor of North Dakota: 1933-1934 and 1937-1939, and U.S. Senator from North Dakota: 1941-1959

Dates: created: 1900-1959; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1963

William Lemke Papers

 Collection — Box 25
Identifier: OGLMC-013
Abstract

1878-1950; U.S. House of Representatives: 1933-1941, 1943-1950, and Union Party Candidate for President in 1936

Dates: created: 1901-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1901-1950; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1952