Title: Jessie Jack Hooper Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1889-1935, 1971

Creator:

• Hooper, Jessie Jack, 1865-1935

Call Number: Wis Mss IU; Micro 2093; PH 5-1483; PH Wis Mss IU; PH Wis Mss IU (3)

Quantity: 6.2 c.f. (14 archives boxes, 1 flat box, 1 oversize folder), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 44 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers, mainly 1920-1935, of Jessie Jack Hooper (Mrs. Benjamin Hooper), an Oshkosh, Wis., suffrage speaker, Democratic Party leader, and worker for permanent peace. The papers concern her work as the first president of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters and her later work as chairman of its department on Indian affairs; her campaign against Senator Robert M. La Follette in 1922; the split in the state Democratic Party over the Prohibition issue, and her work for other party candidates; and cooperation with the Wisconsin State Conference of Social Work and many other state and national social agencies and peace organizations. The bulk of the correspondence concerns her speaking tours and policy-forming work as chairman of the department of international relations of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1928-1932. There is additional correspondence with national and state officers relating to the League of Nations, the World Court, the Kellogg Pact, the Pan-American Treaties of Arbitration, and proposals for a neutrality bill. In addition there is information about the origin of the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War and Mrs. Hooper's work as recording secretary of its national committee, and chairman of its committee that took petitions to the World Disarmament Conference at Geneva, 1932. There are letters from women prominent in organizations all over the United States, including Carrie Chapman Catt, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Anna J. H. Pennybacker, Laura McMullen, and men and women active in state and national Democratic Party work. With these are copies of addresses and radio speeches, biographical material, miscellaneous organizational material, reports, and minutes of executive boards of the various organizations to which she belonged. There are also newspaper clippings (available only on microfilm), one unfilmed scrapbook concerning the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference, engagement books, and a volume containing a typewritten biography of Mrs. Hooper. The biography is also available on microfilm in the holdings of the SHSW Library. Hooper family papers include probate records, files of Ben Hooper pertaining to the development of Pau-ko-tuk on Lake Winnebago, and notes of Mrs. Hooper's daughter, Lorna Hooper Warfield, about her mother's career. Photographs received with the collection consist primarily of portraits and group pictures of various women's organizations to which Mrs. Hooper belonged, as well as a poster from her 1922 senatorial campaign.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000iu

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. Lorna Warfield, 1935-1964; Lillith K. Kunke, 1971; and Lois Van Valkenburgh, 2001. Accession Number: M64-145, M2001-155, M71-035 Includes former SC 221.

	Series: Jessie Jack Hooper Papers
Wis Mss IU	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	1881-1919
Box   1 Folder   2-7	1920-1922, August
Box   2 Folder   1-7	1922, September-1924, July
Box   3 Folder   1-7	1924, August-1928, May
Box   4 Folder   1-6	1928, June-1929, April
Box   5 Folder   1-7	1929, May-1930, April
Box   6 Folder   1-7	1930, May-1931, April
Box   7 Folder   1-7	1931, May-November
Box   8 Folder   1-7	1931, December-1932, April
Box   9 Folder   1-7	1932, May-1933, March
Box   10 Folder   1-4	1933, April-1935
	Biography (“Autobiography”)
Box   10 Folder   5	Bound copy
Box   11 Folder   1-2	Two drafts
Box   11 Folder   3	Diary, 1932 Disarmament Conference
Box   11 Folder   4-6	Engagements calendars, 1920, 1929-1932
Box   11 Folder   7	Memorabilia
Box   12 Folder   1-3	Miscellany
Box   12 Folder   4	Christmas card lists
Box   12 Folder   5	Flood control
Box   12 Folder   6	Lists
Box   12 Folder   7	“Parkside Papers,” circa 1920s
Box   12 Folder   8	National Women's Club-International Relations
Box   12 Folder   9	National Women's Publishing Co.
Box   12 Folder   10	Notebooks
	Peace efforts
Box   12 Folder   11-13	1905-1930
Box   13 Folder   1-7	1931-1932, undated
PH Wis Mss IU	Photographs
PH Wis Mss IU (3)	Oversize Photographs
Wis Mss IU Box   13 Folder   8	Political material
PH 5-1483	, 1922 Democratic Party campaign poster
Micro 2093	Loose clippings
Wis Mss IU Box   15	, 1932 Geneva Conference
Box   14 Folder   1	Speeches
Box   14 Folder   2	Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs
Box   14 Folder   3	Wisconsin League of Women Voters
	Series: Hooper Family Papers	⇧
	Ben Hooper
Box   14 Folder   4	Personal finance book
Box   14 Folder   5	Jessie Jack Hooper estate
Box   14 Folder   6	Extended family estates
Box   14 Folder   7	Pau-lo-tuk development on Lake Winnebago
Oversize Folder   1	Plats
Oversize Folder   1	Drawings
Box   14 Folder   8	Moses Hooper, Brief on forestry, 1909
Box   14 Folder   9	Lorna Hooper Warfield, Interview notes, 1971