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.
