Summary Information
Roger Faherty Papers
1940-1965
- Faherty, Roger, 1889-1967
Mss 45
0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Roger Faherty, Chicago attorney, including correspondence, clippings, news releases, minutes, and speeches concerning Republican politics, particularly the Presidential campaigns of Robert Taft; the Taft Memorial Foundation; and the 1953 appointment of William Howard Taft III as ambassador to Ireland.
English
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Biography/History
Roger Faherty was born in Chicago, April 21, 1889, and spent his childhood in that city. He graduated from DePaul University in 1909 and from Yale Law School in 1912 after which he returned to Chicago where he practiced law for most of his life. An unsuccessful candidate for mayor of that city in 1943, he was an important local political figure. He was a conservative Republican and in 1940 was attracted to the United States Presidential candidacy of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. He became one of Taft's most enthusiastic supporters and a personal friend. After Taft's death in 1953, Faherty was named a trustee of the Robert A. Taft Memorial Foundation.
Proud of his Irish heritage, Faherty served for many years as president of the Irish Fellowship Club. He was influential in aiding William Howard Taft III, Robert's son, in obtaining appointment as ambassador to Ireland in 1953.
Mr. Faherty married Eliza Kilman in 1920 and they had two daughters, Mary and Ann. He died in November, 1967, at the age of 78.
Scope and Content Note
The Roger Faherty Papers consist of correspondence, clippings, magazine articles, news releases, minutes of meetings, speeches, and programs dating from 1940 to 1965. The subject matter is chiefly Republican politics of the 1940's and early 1950's and centers on Robert A. Taft's campaigns for the Presidential nomination in those years. Others frequently mentioned are John W. Bricker, Dwight H. Green, Thomas E. Dewey, Wendell Willkie, Harold E. Stassen, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Also discussed are the Taft Memorial Foundation and the Irish ambassadorship of William Howard Taft III.
The papers are organized into two groups, a correspondence series and a subject file. The correspondence series is a single chronological arrangement of both incoming correspondence and carbons of outgoing correspondence, 1940-1956. Correspondents include Robert Taft and his son, William Taft; Bricker; Green; John Marshall, attorney-general under Coolidge and a leader in Taft for President campaigns; Robert R. McCormick, editor of the Chicago Tribune; Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago; and several Taft supporters in the East and Midwest.
The subject file contains non-correspondence materials and dates from 1941 to 1965. It is most notable for its series of speeches by Taft, 1941-1953.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Roger Faherty, Evanston, Illinois, 1965.
Processed by Karen Baumann, April 9, 1969.
Contents List
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Correspondence
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1940-1947
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1948-1950
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1951-1956
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Subject File, 1941-1965
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Box
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1951-1952; 1955; 1957
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Box
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Robert A. Taft, 1947-1954; undated
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Robert A. Taft - Speeches, 1941-1953
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Box
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Robert A. Taft Memorial Foundation, 1954-1965
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Box
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William Howard Taft III, 1953; 1963
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