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A Guide to the James R. Beverley Papers,
1904-1967
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| Creator: | Beverley, James R. |
| Title: | James R. Beverley
Papers |
| Dates: | 1904-1967 |
| Abstract: | James Rumsey Beverley
(1894-1967) was governor of Puerto Rico from January 1932 to August 1933. He
also held the office of assistant attorney general of Puerto Rico from
1925-1927 and attorney general from 1927-1932. Correspondence, photographs,
speeches, clippings and printed material document his life and work. |
| Accession No.: | AR 2002-205 |
| Extent: | 1 foot, 9.5
inches |
| Language: | Materials
are written in Spanish and
English. |
| Repository: | Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
James Rumsey Beverley (1894-1967) was
governor of Puerto Rico from January 1932 to August 1933. He also held the
office of assistant attorney general of Puerto Rico from 1925-1927 and attorney
general from 1927-1932. He remained on the island after his governorship ended,
practicing law and serving on various committees.
Of the fifteen non-Puerto Rican governors appointed to the island
between 1900 and 1952, Beverley, a native of Amarillo, was the only one who
spoke Spanish. In his short career as governor, he was faced with a major
hurricane, the end of Prohibition on the island, and a controversy over birth
control. Beverley returned to Austin, Texas in the 1960s and lived there until
his death in 1967.
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Correspondence, photographs, speeches,
clippings and printed material document the life and work of James R. Beverley.
The collection primarily represents Beverley’s work as governor of Puerto Rico
from 1932-1933, although it also includes material from before and after his
governorship.
Of interest is Beverley’s extensive correspondence with Theodore
Roosevelt Jr., with whom Beverley had a long-lasting personal and professional
relationship. Material comprising an unfinished autobiography is also included
in the collection.
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Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
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James R. Beverley Papers, 1904-1967,
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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| 2E390 | | | Roosevelt, Theodore Jr.,
1930-1942, 1962 |
| | | | [Photograph separated to 3Z315] |
| | | Letters, cards, telegrams, news clippings, on Beverley’s
death,
1967 |
| | | Beverley before Puerto Rico,
1904-1923 and undated |
| | | | [Photograph separated to 3Z315] |
| | | Letters, Beverley and Presidents Hoover, F.D.R. and
Truman,
1932-1934, 1950 |
| | | Junior Hartzell,
1931-1934 |
| | | Miscellaneous printed material,
1931-1975 and undated |
| | | Scrapbook pages,
1924-1935 and undated |
| | | For Mrs. Beverley, [letters and clippings on Beverley’s
death],
1967 |
| | | Correspondence,
1924-1943, 1963-1965 and undated |
| | | | [Photograph separated to 3Z315] |
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| 2E391 | | | Correspondence,
1924-1943, 1963-1965 and undated |
| | | Inaugural and other clippings,
1928-1940 and undated |
| | | Hurricane clippings,
1928-1932 and undated |
| | | Birth control clippings and correspondence,
1932-1939 |
| | | Autobiography [never completed],
undated |
| | | Presbyterian Community Hospital annual report,
1965 |
| | | Bureau of Insular Affairs, radio messages and
correspondence,
1931-1933 and undated |
| | | “Discurso Pronunciado por el Gobernador Interino, Hon.
James R. Beverley, Con Motivo de la Celebración del 4 de Julio en San Juan de
Puerto Rico,”
July 4, 1931 |
| | | Bound volume of Beverley’s gubernatorial proclamations,
February 1932-June 1933 |
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| 2E392 | | | Gubernatorial addresses to the Puerto Rican Legislature,
February 8, 1932 and February 13,
1933 |
| | | Inaugural address of James R. Beverley,
January 30, 1932 |
| | | Annual Report of the Secretary of War to the President,
1932 |
| | | Annual Reports of the Governor of Puerto Rico,
1932-1933 |
| | | Texas Bar Journal with
Beverley’s obituary,
October 22, 1967 |
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| 4M686 | | | Speeches: |
| | | | Volume one,
1928-1933 |
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| 4M687 | | | | Volume two,
1932-1938 and undated |
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| 2E392 | | | | Volume three,
1930-1954 and undated |
| | | | Volume four,
1943-1963 and undated |
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| 3Z315 | | | Photographs: |
| | | | Roosevelt, [Theodore, Jr.], Roosevelt at inauguration
[?] with unidentified woman [his sister Alice?],
ca. 1929 |
| | | | Beverley before Puerto Rico, childhood photographs,
1904 and undated |
| | | | Correspondence, signed photograph of Beverley’s military
aide, William G. Caldwell, from letter dated July 20, 1933,
[1933] |
| | | | Miscellaneous photographs,
1932-1944, 1960 and undated |
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| 3S199d | | | | Oversized photograph of Beverley,
1944 |
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