Summary Information

Title: John M. Becker Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1889-1927

Creator:

• Becker, John M., 1865-1926

Call Number: Mss 109

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of John M. Becker, a Green County, Wisconsin judge and ardent pacifist, convicted of sedition and removed from office in 1918 for promoting a ballot referendum on the question of U.S. entry into World War I. The papers include newspaper clippings, speeches and transcripts related to his 1918 trial and anti-war stance, as well as documents concerning his libel suit against the local newspaper, The Monroe Evening Times, and documents pertaining to a suit brought by his client, the Langlade County Creamery Company, against the State of Wisconsin, opening up the manufacture of Swiss cheese in Wisconsin. The papers also include materials from his election campaigns, 1898-1923.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00109

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