Florence Ellinwood Allen Papers
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Florence Ellinwood Allen Papers 1907-1965
Allen, Florence Ellinwood, 1884-1966
Biographical History for: Florence Ellinwood Allen Papers 1907-1965
Biographical Note Date Event 1884, Mar. 23 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah 1904 B.A., Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1908 M.A., Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1913 LL.B., New York University, New York, N.Y. 1920 Judge, court of common pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 1922-1934 Associate justice, Ohio Supreme Court 1934-1959 Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 1940 Published This Constitution of Ours. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1952 Published The Treaty as an Instrument of Legislation. New York: Macmillan 1959-1966 Senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 1965 Published To Do Justly. Cleveland: Press of Western Reserve University 1966, Sept. 12 Died, Waite Hill, Ohio
Scope and Content Note The papers of Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966) span the period 1907-1965 and relate to her position as associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and as judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Allen was an active feminist instrumental in obtaining women's suffrage and the first woman to sit on an American court of last resort. She was also the first woman in the United States to occupy the position of senior judge of a federal court of appeals. The papers are organized into the following series: Correspondence, Subject File, Speech and Article File, and Miscellany. Allen's interest in the women's rights movement is documented by the speeches and articles in her papers. The collection also reveals her interest in the subjects of peace, war, disarmament, and international law. Many of her speeches were delivered to bar associations and subsequently published. Allen received many honorary degrees and the speeches delivered on these occasions are included in the papers. Approximately half of the collection consists of newspaper clippings pertaining to the judge's activities on behalf of women's suffrage, her campaigns for Congress, consideration of her for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, and honors received in 1959 when she became senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Correspondents include Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, Margaret Chase Smith, and members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers.
series
Correspondence, 1915-1965
Correspondence.
file
General, 1915-1965
Special
Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne, Viscountess Astor, 1929-1955
International Federation of Women Lawyers, 1962-1963
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1948-1959
Smith, Margaret Chase, 1963-1964
Subject File, 1921-1958
Biographical sketches, speeches, book reviews, notes, honors and citations, legal papers, cartoons, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting Allen's activities and interests.
Biographical
Sketches
Autobiographical speeches
Autobiographical notes
Life of Allen and her father
Home of Allen
Portrait presentation
Retirement honors
Citations
Honorary degrees
Margaret Ireland Award
Mather College Award, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Campaign for United States Senate, 1926
Campaigns for court positions
Ohio Supreme Court, 1928
United States Supreme Court, support as first woman, 1957
Conference on Causes and Cures of War
International Bar Association, 1948
International Federation of Women Lawyers
Japan, 1951
Turkey, 1953
Finland, 1954
United Nations, 1956
Los Angles, Calif., 1958
Legal opinions, index
McGannon case, 1921
New York University dinner, New York, N.Y., 1948
Reviews of Allen's books
This Constitution of Ours
The Treaty as an Instrument of Legislation
"This I Believe," radio broadcast, 1942
TVA case, 1937-1938
Woman's suffrage
Anthony, Susan B.
Donahey, William, cartoons
Newspaper clippings
Notes and research
Ohio woman's suffrage
Park, Maud Wood, articles
Research
Shaw, Anna Howard
Speech notebook
Speech and Article File, 1911-1963
Speeches and articles.
America, speeches, 1924-1957
Anthony, Susan B., 1952
Atomic age, preparing for, 1958
Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., commencement address, 1931
"The Bill of Rights," 1958
"The Bridge to the Future," 1945-1951
Campaign for Congress, 1932
"Challenge to the Citizen," 1960
"Chart for Living," 1953
"The Christian and Government," 1922
The Constitution, speeches
Dumbarton Oaks proposals, statement, 1945
"Fair Trial and Freedom of the Press," 1956
Faith
Freedom, speeches
Gallatin Award, 1960
"The Governmental Task," 1932
Hicks, Xenophon
The home, speeches
International understanding, article and speech
Invention, speech, with reprint, 1958
Jury system, 1930-1954
Justice, 1928-1956
Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, anniversary address, 1948
Law, speeches and writings, 1928-1960
London, England, speeches, 1950
Lyman, Mrs., memorial
MacFarlene, Catherine, 1956
"Map for Living," 1957
Mexican trip, lectures
Music lectures, 1911
"National and World Planning," 1932
New voters
New York University, New York, N.Y., reunion dinner, 1963
"The Nuremberg Trial Implements World Law," 1947
"The Outlook," 1931
Patent speech
Peace, speeches, 1948-1960
Phi Beta Kappa address, 1934
Recreation, 1934
Sommer, Frank H., 1958
"Taft Watched and Waited"
Teachers, address, 1950
Traditions, writings, 1931-1939
Treaties, speeches
United Nations Charter and the World Court
War, speeches and articles
War bonds
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo., commencement address, 1955
Women and woman's rights, speeches and articles, 1925-1960
Miscellany, 1907-1959
Photographs, scrapbooks, addresses, newspaper clippings, and other material.
Photographs
Miscellany
Scrapbooks
Musical interests, 1907-1908
Congressional campaign, 1932
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1934
Miscellaneous
Newspaper clipping scrapbook
Reelection to Ohio Supreme Court, 1928
Current events on the bench, 1931
Addresses