Title: Alexander Wiley Photographs
Inclusive Dates: 1907-1962

Creator:

• Wiley, Alexander, 1884-1967

Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 60

Quantity:

• 1.0 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
• 2 oversize folders

Repository:

Milwaukee Public Library, Frank P. Zeidler Room

Archival Location:

Milwaukee Public Library (Map)

Abstract:

Alexander Wiley, a native of Wisconsin, was an attorney and a United States Senator for the State of Wisconsin from 1938 until 1962, when he was not re-elected. The collection is mainly photographs from his time as Senator with images of political leaders and events.

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Language: English

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Alexander Wiley was born 26 May 1884 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin to Alex and Sophia (Elkern) Wiley. He attended Augsburg College in Minnesota and the University of Michigan for his undergraduate education. Wiley received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1907 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He maintained a private practice before serving as the Chippewa County District Attorney from 1909 to 1915.

In 1936, Wiley ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for Governor of Wisconsin. In 1938, Wiley was elected to the U.S. Senate defeating incumbent F. Ryan Duffy. Wiley was re-elected three more times in 1944, 1950 and 1956. He lost his bid for a fifth term to Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson in 1962. As a U.S. Senator, Wiley was chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the 80th Congress (1947–1948) and the Foreign Relations Committee of the 83rd Congress (1953–1954).

Alexander Wiley married May Jenkins on 25 November 1909. They had four children: Elizabeth May Joslin, Marshall Alexander Wiley, Rose Mary Bradley, and Winifred Jean Wilde. Wiley died 26 May 1967 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

The collection is comprised mainly photographs of political leaders and events. A small collection of non-photographic materials includes certificates, clippings, correspondence and published reports. The 1954 scrapbook added to the non photographic material was deconstructed because of its condition. It does contain some photographs but is mostly clippings and documents.

The collection is arranged into four areas: Politicians and Significant Individuals; Press Photographs; Miscellaneous Photographs; Non-photographic material.

Within in each series, materials are generally arranged alphabetically by name or subject.

Wiley, Alexander, Photographs, 1907-1962, Collection 60. Local History Manuscript Collections, Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Alexander Wiley / Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel

Laughing with Congress

Wisconsin centennial exhibition, May 29, 1948-August 23, 1948. An address by Alexander Wiley on the occasion of the ceremonies opening the Wisconsin centennial exhibition at the Library of Congress, together with a catalog of the exhibition

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials. The collection is open to all in accordance with state law. The public may view Local History Manuscript Collections by appointment at the Central Library. To request an in-person appointment, create/login to your Special Collections Account. If you have any questions, please contact the Archives and Special Collections Department at mplarchives@milwaukee.gov.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

In 2018, two related Alexander Wiley collections were merged. Limited available correspondence indicates some items were donated directly by Alexander Wiley in 1962. In 2019, a scrapbook also donated by Wiley in 1962 was located and reunited with this collection. Materials were accessioned as Local History Manuscripts.

Processing Information

Processed and described by Meghan Jensen, 2007. Processed by Casey Lapworth, 2018.

	Politicians and Significant Individuals
Box   1 Folder   1	Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of Germany, 1953
Box   1 Folder   2	Ashurst, Senator Henry Fountain, undated
Box   1 Folder   3	Barbour, Senator, William Warren, undated
Box   1 Folder   4	Bennett, Senator Wallace F., undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Boggs, Senator J. Caleb, undated
Box   1 Folder   6	Bolles, Representative Stephen, undated
Box   1 Folder   7	Borah, Senator, William E., undated
Box   1 Folder   8	Bowring, Senator Eva, undated
Box   1 Folder   9	Brooks, Senator C. Wayland, 1945
Box   1 Folder   10	Bushfield, Senator Harlan J., undated
Box   1 Folder   11	Butler, Senator Hugh, undated
Box   1 Folder   12	Butler, Senator John Marshall, undated
Box   1 Folder   13	Byrnes, Senator, James F., undated
Box   1 Folder   14	Cannon, Senator Howard W., 1959
Box   1 Folder   15	Capper, Senator Arthur, undated
Box   1 Folder   16	Case, Senator Francis, undated
Box   1 Folder   17	Case, Senator Francis, 1959
Box   1 Folder   18	Curtis, Senator Carl T., undated
Box   1 Folder   19	Danaher, Senator John A., 1940
Box   1 Folder   20	Darby, Senator Harry, 1950
Box   1 Folder   21	Denny, George, 1945
Box   1 Folder   22	Dewey, John, 1944
Box   1 Folder   23	Dirksen, Senator Everett McKinley, undated
Box   1 Folder   24	Downey, Senator Sheridan, undated
Box   1 Folder   25	Duff, Senator James H., undated
Box   1 Folder   26	Durfee, Jim, undated
Box   1 Folder   27	Dworshak, Senator Henry, undated
Box   1 Folder   28	Eisenhower, General Dwight D., undated
Box   1 Folder   29	Fillman, Roy, undated
Box   1 Folder   30	Flanders, Senator Ralph E., undated
Box   1 Folder   31	Frear, Senator J. Allen, Jr., undated
Box   1 Folder   32	Frear, Senator J. Allen, Jr., undated
Box   1 Folder   33	Fulbright, Senator James W., undated
Box   1 Folder   34	Garner, Vice-President John Nance, 1939
Box   1 Folder   35	Gillette, Senator Guy M., undated
Box   1 Folder   36	Gillette, Senator Guy M., undated
Box   1 Folder   37	Glenn, John, Jr., undated
Box   1 Folder   38	Goldwater, Senator Barry, undated
Box   1 Folder   39	Grissom, Virgil I., undated
Box   1 Folder   40	Haakon VII, King of Norway, 1939
Box   1 Folder   41	Harrison, Senator Pat, undated
Box   1 Folder   42	Hart, Admiral Thomas C., undated
Box   1 Folder   43	Hennings, Senator Thomas C., Jr., undated
Box   1 Folder   44	Henry, Representative Robert K., undated
Box   1 Folder   45	Hickenlooper, Senator Bourke B., undated
Box   1 Folder   46	Holland, Senator Spessard L., undated
Box   1 Folder   47	Hoover, J. Edgar, 1940
Box   1 Folder   48	Humphrey, George M., undated
Box   1 Folder   49	Jenner, Senator William E., undated
Box   1 Folder   50	Johns, Representative Joshua L., undated
Box   1 Folder   51	Johnson, Senator Hiram W., undated
Box   1 Folder   52	Johnson, Senator Lyndon Baines, undated
Box   1 Folder   53	Johnson, Senator Olin D., undated
Box   1 Folder   54	Jordan, Senator B. Everett, undated
Box   1 Folder   55	Keefe, Representative Frank B., undated
Box   1 Folder   56	Kefauver, Senator Estes, undated
Box   1 Folder   57	Kem, Senator James P., undated
Box   1 Folder   58	Kerr, Senator Robert S., undated
Box   1 Folder   59	Kerr, Senator W. Scott, undated
Box   1 Folder   60	Laird, Representative Melvin R., undated
Box   1 Folder   61	Leahy, Fleet Admiral William D., undated
Box   1 Folder   62	Lodge, Senator Henry Cabot, Jr., undated
Box   1 Folder   63	Luce, Representative Clare Boothe, 1946
Box   1 Folder   64	Michener, Representative Earl C., undated
Box   1 Folder   65	Miller, Senator Jack, undated
Box   1 Folder   66	McCarthy, Senator Eugene, undated
Box   1 Folder   67	McCarthy, Senator Joseph, undated
Box   1 Folder   68	McNary, Senator Charles L., 1941
Box   1 Folder   69	Moon, E.H., undated
Box   1 Folder   70	Mundt, Senator Karl E., 1949
Box   1 Folder   71	Neuberger, Senator Richard, 1955
Box   1 Folder   72	Nimitz, Admiral Chester W., 1945
Box   1 Folder   73	Nixon, Senator Richard, 1951
Box   1 Folder   74	Norris, Senator George W., 1940
Box   1 Folder   75	O’Konski, Representative Alvin E., undated
Box   1 Folder   76	O’Mahoney, Senator Joseph, undated
Box   1 Folder   77	Olaf, King of Norway, 1939
Box   1 Folder   78	Pepper, Senator Claude, 1939
Box   1 Folder   79	Reed, Senator Clyde M., undated
Box   1 Folder   80	Rennebohm, Governor Oscar, undated
Box   1 Folder   81	Saltonstall, Senator Leverett, undated
Box   1 Folder   82	Santelmann, Captain William Leader, U.S. Marine Band, 1949
Box   1 Folder   83	Schadeberg, Representative Henry C., undated
Box   1 Folder   84	Shepard, Alan, undated
Box   1 Folder   85	Smith, Representative Lawrence H., 1947
Box   1 Folder   86	Smith, Representative Lawrence H., 1947
Box   1 Folder   87	Smith, Senator Margaret Chase, undated
Box   1 Folder   88	Smith, Seantor Willis, undated
Box   1 Folder   89	Spinner(?), undecipherable, undated
Box   1 Folder   90	Stanfill, Senator William A., undated
Box   1 Folder   91	Stevenson, Representative William H., undated
Box   1 Folder   92	Thill, Representative Lewis D., 1941
Box   1 Folder   93	Thurmond, Senator Strom, undated
Box   1 Folder   94	Unidentified, judge, undated
Box   1 Folder   95	Unidentified, man, undated
Box   2 Folder   1	Unidentified, man, undated
Box   2 Folder   2	Unidentified, man, undated
Box   2 Folder   3	Unidentified, man, undated
Box   2 Folder   4	Unidentified, man, undated
Box   2 Folder   5	Watkins, Senator Arthur V., 1947
Box   2 Folder   6	Welker, Senator Herman, undated
Box   2 Folder   7	White, Senator Robert (?), undated
Box   2 Folder   8	Wiley, Alexander, 1962
Box   2 Folder   9	Willis, Senator Raymond E., 1943
Box   2 Folder   10	Young, Senator Milt, undated
	Press Photographs
Box   2 Folder   11	“Group gathered for natural gas fight”, 1955
Box   2 Folder   12	“Republican Senators on hearing Ike’s decision”, undated
Box   2 Folder   13	Adenaur, Konrad, Chancellor of Germany, greeted by Wiley and wife, Bonn, Germany, undated
Box   2 Folder   14	American Legion National Rehabilitation Commission Conference, 1957
Box   2 Folder   15	Barkley, Senator Alben, shaking hands with Wiley, undated
Box   2 Folder   16	Bay View Post #180, American Legion, 1943
Box   2 Folder   17	Benson, Ezra Taft and Wiley drinking milk, 1958
Box   2 Folder   18	Best, George L., with Wiley, 1959
Box   2 Folder   19	Bible, Senator Alan, and Senator Frank Church with Wiley, 1958
Box   2 Folder   20	Brandt, Mayor Willy of West Berlin, Senator Gunther Klein of Berlin with Wiley, 1959
Box   2 Folder   21	Canadian Parliamentarians and U.S. Senators, 1959
Box   2 Folder   22	Canadian Parliamentarians visiting the White House, 1959
Box   2 Folder   23	Canadian Parliamentarians with President Eisenhower, 1960
Box   2 Folder   24	Capeheart, Senator Homer E., and Wiley, undated
Box   2 Folder   25	Capeheart, Senator Homer E., and Wiley, undated
Box   Folder   26	Churchill, Winston and Wiley, 1959
Box   2 Folder   27	Churchill, Winston, with group applauding, undated
Box   Folder   28	Cornerstone laying at U.S. Capitol(3 photos), 1959
Box   2 Folder   29	Dionne Quintuplets (Annette, Cecile, Emelie, Marie, Yvonne) with Wiley, undated
Box   2 Folder   30	Dirksen, Senator Everett, Senator James Beall, President Eisenhower, and Wiley, 1959
Box   2 Folder   31	Dirksen dinner for Senator Fong, Mayflower Hotel, 1959
Box   2 Folder   32	Dondero, Representative George and Wiley at St. Lawrence Seaway, 1958
Box   2 Folder   33	Dulles, John Foster, Charles Wilson, and Wiley with two unidentified men, undated
Box   2 Folder   34	Eisenhower, President and Senators leaving White House breakfast, 1959
Box   2 Folder   35	Goldwater, Senator Barry, Wiley, and actor Fess Parker, 1962
Box   2 Folder   36	Group including Senator Lyndon Johnson, Fola La Follette, and Wiley, 1959
Box   2 Folder   37	Group including Wiley singing at luncheon, undated
Box   2 Folder   38	Group of men at airport, undated
Box   2 Folder   39	Group of Senators with President Eisenhower, undated
Box   2 Folder   40	Hanna, Commander Albert J., with Wiley, 1962
Box   2 Folder   41	Hickenlooper, Senator Bourke, with Wiley, 1962
Box   2 Folder   42	Hunt, Senator Charles Tobey, at American Forum of the Air, undated
Box   2 Folder   43	Lawrence, David, with Wiley, undated
Box   2 Folder   44	Mansfield, Senator Mike, Senator Everett Dirksen, and Wiley, undated
Box   2 Folder   45	Michener, Honorable Roland (Speaker of the House of Commons) and Honorable Mark Drouin (Speaker of the Canadian Senate) with Wiley, 1959
Box   2 Folder   46	Milwaukee – Downer Seminary Class of 1959, 1959
Box   2 Folder   47	Mount, Miss Priscilla, with Wiley, 1962
Box   2 Folder   48	Murray, Senator James, and unidentified man hunting, undated
Box   2 Folder   49	Nixon, Vice-President Richard, Wiley and unidentified man, 1954
Box   2 Folder   50	Nixon, Vice-President Richard, and Wiley, not dated, undated
Box   2 Folder   51	Nixon, Vice-President Richard, “Alice in Dairyland” Barbara Brown, and Wiley, 1956
Box   2 Folder   52	Nixons returning from Moscow, 1959
Box   2 Folder   53	Pentagon award ceremony, with Robert Smith, 1962
Box   2 Folder   54	Perkins, Ed, with Wiley at Press Club, 1959
Box   2 Folder   55	Pitterman, Dr. Bruno, Vice-Chancellor of Austria, 1959
Box   2 Folder   56	Republican members of Congress, undated
Box   2 Folder   57	Reuss, Representative Henry S., and Wiley, 1962
Box   2 Folder   58	Roy, Dr. B.C., with Wiley, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and Senator John Sparkman, 1961
Box   2 Folder   59	Senate Crime Committee, 1951
Box   2 Folder   60	Senate Foreign Relations Committee at Washington’s National Airport, undated
Box   2 Folder   61	Senate Foreign Relations Committee Luncheon for the Shah of Iran, 1962
Box   2 Folder   62	Senate Judiciary Committee members, 1962
Box   2 Folder   63	Senators Chan Gurney, Wiley, William H. King, Warren R. Austin, and Joseph H. Ball, in old Supreme Court Chambers, 1940
Box   2 Folder   64	Senators gathered in Senate Foreign Relations Room, Capitol Building, undated
Box   2 Folder   65	Severson, Arthur, with Wiley, 1961
Box   2 Folder   66	Shriver, Sargent, 1961
Box   2 Folder   67	Slayton, Donald, 1959
Box   2 Folder   68	Smith, Senator Margaret Chase, with Wiley, undated
Box   2 Folder   69	Soldier Major Richard “Dick” Ira Bong and Wiley in Senate office, undated
Box   2 Folder   70	Sons of the American Revolution Dinner, Milwaukee, 1958
Box   2 Folder   71	Sundquist, Dr. George N., with Wiley, 1959
Box   2 Folder   72	Swearing in of Judge Durfee, U.S. Court of Claims, undated
Box   2 Folder   73	Taft, Senator Robert A. and Senator Lyndon Johnson with Wiley, 1953
Box   2 Folder   74	Taft Memorial Dedication, President Hoover’s address, 1959
Box   2 Folder   75	Talle, Representative Henry O., 1939
Box   2 Folder   76	United States Merchant Marine Academy cadets, undated
Box   2 Folder   77	Welcoming Uruguayan visitors, 1956
Box   2 Folder   78	White House ceremony proclaiming Hawai’i’s statehood, 1959
Box   2 Folder   79	Wiley addressing Store Ting (Norwegian Parliament), Oslo, Norway, 1939
Box   2 Folder   80	Wiley and group of men in factory, undated
Box   2 Folder   81	Wiley and Mrs. Wiley with military officers, Hawai’i, 1958
Box   2 Folder   82	Wiley and Mrs. Wiley with students and hosts on the set of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” , 1955
Box   2 Folder   83	Wiley and two unidentified men examining wild game, undated
Box   2 Folder   84	Wiley and unidentified boy drinking milk, undated
Box   2 Folder   85	Wiley and unidentified man in office, undated
Box   2 Folder   86	Wiley and wife, undated
Box   2 Folder   87	Wiley and wife setting out food, undated
Box   2 Folder   88	Wiley at Camp McCoy, 1956
Box   2 Folder   89	Wiley at Camp McCoy, 1956
Box   2 Folder   90	Wiley at luncheon, undated
Box   2 Folder   91	Wiley at Taft Memorial, undated
Box   2 Folder   92	Wiley holding skillets, undated
Box   2 Folder   93	Wiley interviewed by German press, Berlin, Germany, 1954
Box   2 Folder   94	Wiley making address at Arlington National Cemetery, 1953
Box   3 Folder   1	Wiley napping during an all-night filibuster, undated
Box   3 Folder   2	Wiley on the telephone, undated
Box   3 Folder   3	Wiley presenting UNICEF check to Francis B. Sayre, 1959
Box   3 Folder   4	Wiley presiding over Senate, undated
Box   3 Folder   5	Wiley reviewing cadets, undated
Box   3 Folder   6	Wiley shaking hands with unidentified man, undated
Box   3 Folder   7	Wiley shaking hands with unidentified man, undated
Box   3 Folder   8	Wiley with group and military officers, undated
Box   3 Folder   9	Wiley with group of military school students, undated
Box   3 Folder   10	Wiley with group of senators, undated
Box   3 Folder   11	Wiley with group of senators and representatives, undated
Box   3 Folder   12	Wiley with group of senators and representatives, undated
Box   3 Folder   13	Wiley with a group of unidentified men, 1939
Box   3 Folder   14	Wiley with Merchant Marines, undated
Box   3 Folder   15	Wiley with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Gorsky and Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Murphy, undated
Box   3 Folder   16	Wiley with Navy cadets, 1941
Box   3 Folder   17	Wiley with photograph of Taft, undated
Box   3 Folder   18	Wiley with photographs of Kennedy and Eisenhower, undated
Box   3 Folder   19	Wiley with Savings Bond Quartet, undated
Box   3 Folder   20	Wiley with three unidentified men holding savings bond poster, undated
Box   3 Folder   21	Wiley with two unidentified men, undated
Box   3 Folder   22	Wiley with two unidentified men, undated
Box   3 Folder   23	Wiley with two unidentified men, undated
Box   3 Folder   24	Wiley with unidentified man and child, undated
Box   3 Folder   25	Wiley with unidentified man and woman, undated
Box   3 Folder   26	Wiley with unidentified man sampling Wisconsin cheese, undated
Box   3 Folder   27	Wiley with unidentified military officer and man with stuffed penguin, undated
Box   3 Folder   28	Wiley with unidentified soldiers, undated
Box   3 Folder   29	Wiley – Dondero Ship Channel, undated
Box   3 Folder   30	Wilkie, Wendell, meets GOP legislators, undated
Box   3 Folder   31	Wisconsin School Safety Patrols, 1959
	Miscellaneous Photographs
Oversize Folder   1	Advertisements, 1959
Box   3 Folder   32	Capitol Building, Madison, Wisconsin, undated
Box   3 Folder   33	Chapel altar, undated
Box   3 Folder   34	Forest scene, undated
Box   3 Folder   35	Groves, Bill and Wiley on television, 1959
Box   3 Folder   36	Rumpf, Arthur and Wiley on television, 1959
Box   3 Folder   37	St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation insignia, undated
Box   3 Folder   38	Wiley office photo, undated
Box   3 Folder   39	Wiley timeline photo, undated
	Non-photographic material
Box   3 Folder   40	Baseball clipping signed by Senator Bill Jenner, undated
Oversize Folder   2	Cartoons, Political, undated
Box   3 Folder   41	Certificates, 1942-1961
Oversize Folder   1	Certificates, 1953-1962
Box   3 Folder   42	Collection inventories, 1962
Box   3 Folder   43	Correspondence, 1959
Oversize Folder   1	Newsletters - Wiley, Alexander 1949-1959, undated
Oversize Folder   1	Newsletters - Zablocki, Clement, 1959
Box   3 Folder   44	Newspaper clipping, 1907
Box   3 Folder   45	Reports, 1951-1960
Box   3 Folder   46	Scrapbook (includes some photos), 1954, undated