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Call Number: SC0327
Creator:
Barclay, Thomas Swain, 1894-
Title: Thomas Swain Barclay papers
Dates: 1915-1984
Physical Description:
9 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, ephemera, photographs and scrapbooks relating to
the American political process, student government at Stanford, and his teaching
activities. Includes some correspondence from James Farley.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Thomas Swain Barclay Papers (SC0327). Department of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Political scientist. Professor of political science at Stanford University from 1927
until his retirement as emeritus in 1958, Barclay also served on the U.S. State
Department's Peace Commission after World War I. In his active political life, he served
for 18 years as a member of national and state Democratic Party committees, as a
delegate (1936 Democratic National Convention), as a presidential elector (1944), and as
assistant to Democratic Party chairman James Farley (1940).
Correspondence, ephemera, photographs and scrapbooks relating to the American political
process, student government at Stanford, and his teaching activities. Includes some
correspondence from James Farley.
Barclay, Thomas Swain, 1894-
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius),
1888-1976
Stanford University--Students.
Stanford University. Dept. of Political
Science--Faculty.
Democratic Party--California.
Students--Political activity
United States--Politics and Government.