urn:taro:utexas.cah.01043 A Guide to the Leroy Tudor Vernon Papers, 1884-1945 Original EAD encoding by NAME according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. August 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Vernon, Leroy Tudor Leroy Tudor Vernon Papers 1884-1945 Materials are written in English. [2008-108] 3 feet, 5 inches Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Leroy Vernon Tudor was a correspondent for the <emph render="italic">Chicago Daily News</emph> from 1902-1935. The bulk of the material is incoming manuscript and typescript letters and outgoing carbon copies of typescript letters between Vernon and various notable politicians, government and elected officials, journalists, newsmen, and business leaders. Biographical Note

Leroy “Roy” Tudor Vernon was born in Wilmington, Ohio on February 11, 1878. He began his journalism career in 1898 working as the City Editor at the <emph render="italic">Everett Times</emph> in the state of Washington. He received an A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1900. In 1902 he started as the political and legislative correspondent at the <emph render="italic">Chicago Daily News</emph>. In 1903 he became their Washington Correspondent; a post he held until 1934, when he became Political Editor.

He was active with the Republican Party and served as the Publicity Director for the National Taft Bureau in 1912. In 1920 he was the Eastern Publicity Director for Frank O. Lowden’s unsuccessful presidential campaign.

He married Georgia Mary Wheeler in 1904. Leroy Vernon Tudor died on January 3, 1938.

Biographical note prepared from information contained in the collection and from <emph render="italic">Marquis Who’s Who on the Web</emph>.

 Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material is incoming manuscript and typescript letters and outgoing carbon copies of typescript letters between Vernon and various notable politicians, government and elected officials, journalists, newsmen, and business leaders. Much of the correspondence relates to Vernon’s coverage of the day’s crucial news events, including World War I, the Mexican Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, Prohibition, the Depression, New Deal policy, Presidential campaigns and national politics, the rise of Adolph Hitler, as well as other important contemporary events.

There is a significant amount of correspondence between Victor Freemont Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News; Walter A. Strong, Lawson’s successor; and Charles Henry Dennis, the longtime editor of the Chicago Daily News. Tudor also corresponded frequently with other journalists.

Also included is a substantial amount of personal correspondence between Vernon and his brother, Mercer; as well as correspondence with his wife, father, and mother.

Non-correspondence material includes five folio binders containing press releases and articles from Vernon’s work with the presidential campaigns of William Howard Taft and Frank Orren Lowden. There is a small amount of writings, including edited drafts and published versions of news articles, as well as drafts of Vernon’s unpublished fiction writing.

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Vernon, Leroy Tudor -- Archives. Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 Strong, Walter A. Dennis, Charles Henry, 1860-1943 Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Lowden, Frank O. (Frank Orren), 1861-1943 Subjects (Organizations) Chicago Daily News Subjects Journalism Reporters and reporting Preferred Citation

Leroy Tudor Vernon Papers, 1884-1945, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 4B415 Collection Information 4B415 Correspondence & Memoranda: 4B415 Rabourn, 1920-1933 4B415 Assorted Officials & Politicians, 1930-1934 4B415 Assorted, 1915-1930, 1942-1944 4B415 Claude O. Pike, 1923-1932 4B415 McClure Newspaper Syndicate, 1910 4B415 George C. Briggs, 1921-1925 4B415 Elliott S. Norton, 1906-1918 4B415 Alfred Gus Karger, 1935 4B415 Norway, 1927-1931 4B415 M.G. Thomle, 1918, 1945 4B415 G.R. Wales, 1918-1931 4B415 John T. Bass, 1915, 1920 4B415 E.L. Landram, 1921-1922 4B415 Assorted Correspondence: D, 1919-1931 4B415 Lewis Pilcher, 1933 4B415 Constantine Brown, 1924-1931 4B415 Oswald Garrison Villard, 1915-1920 4B415 John Symes, 1919 4B415 Carroll Binder & Newton Baker, 1916, 1927-1933 4B415 Assorted, 1919-1920, 1932-1935 4B415 Assorted Officials & Politicians, 1884, 1915-1919, 1931-1935 4B415 Assorted Correspondence: W, 1905-1927 4B415 Oberlin M. Carter, 1931-1934 4B415 G.V. Vernon Family, 1926-1930 4B415 Levine, 1920-1921 4B415 Paul Leach, 1925-1934 4B415 Dewey Hilles, 1920-1936 4B415 John Palmer Gavit, 1913-1920 4B415 Brooks Beitler, 1924-1931 4B415 Assorted Correspondence: M, 1915-1930 4B415 Robert L. O’Brien, 1910-1933 4B415 Paul Scott Mowrer, 1915-1934 4B415 Assorted Correspondence: H, 1924-1933 4B415 Hopewell L. Rogers, 1906-1927 4B415 Assorted Correspondence: B-C, 1907-1934 4B415 James Mercer Vernon (father), 1894-1900 4B415 James Mercer Vernon (father), 1891-1909 4B415 Helena Tudor Mercer (mother), 1893-1898 4B415 Assorted Family, 1897-1910 4B415 Subject Files: 4B415 <emph render="italic">Chicago Daily News</emph> (Balance sheets & reprints), 1926-1929, 1936 4B415 Writings-Drafts & Notes: 4B415 Lobbyists, circa 1930s 4B415 Vote Frauds, 1933 4B415 Printed Matter: 4B415 <emph render="italic">LaFollette-Wheeler Campaign Text Book</emph>, circa 1924 4B416 Correspondence & Memoranda: 4B416 Anthony Czarnecki, 1916-1918 4B416 Charles H. Dennis: 4B416 1904, 1909-1913 4B416 1914 4B416 1915 4B416 1916 4B416 1917 4B416 1918 4B416 1919 4B416 1920 4B416 1921-1922 4B416 1923 4B416 1924-1925 4B416 1926-1929 4B416 1930-1934 4B416 Frank Knox, 1931 4B416 Victor F. Lawson: 4B416 1903-1904, 1912-1913, 1915-1917 4B416 1918-1919 4B416 1920-1925 4B416 Frank O. Lowden, 1922-1926 4B416 Hal O’Flaherty, 1925-1934 4B416 Harry J. Smith: 4B416 1910-1915 4B416 1916-1920 4B416 1921-1922 4B416 1923-1929 (no 1925) 4B416 1930-1932 4B416 1933-1934, undated 4B416 Mercer Vernon, circa 1914-1921, undated 4B416 J.R. Wheeler, 1936 4B416 Assorted Correspondence, 1902-1934, undated 4B416 Deeds & Titles, 1917-1920, 1932 4B416 Ohio Investment Company (Correspondence & Financial): 4B416 A.J. Westland, 1926-1936 4B416 Clippings, 1904, 1907, 1914, 1928 4J439a Correspondence: 4J439a Frank O. Lowden, 1919-1921, 1927-1935 4J439a Louis L. Emmerson, 1919-1920, 1929-1931 4J439a Mary Vernon & daughter, 1912 4J439a Mercer Vernon, 4J439a 1894-1900 4J439a 1912-1922, 1935, undated 4J439a Republican National Committee, 1936-1937 4J439a Charles D. Hilles, 1934-1937 4J439a James R. Mann, 1906 4J439a Otto H. Mohr, 1919 4J439a Victor F. Lawson, 1924 4J439a Alfred Gus Karger, 1911, 1924 4J439a Assorted Correspondence: S, 1906-1934 4J439a Junius B. Wood, 1915-1934 4J439a Walter A. Strong: 4J439a 1912-1928 4J439a 1929-1932 4J439a Wendell P. Rice, 1910 4J439a Busbey, 1926 4J439a <emph render="italic">Chicago Daily News’</emph> War Book, 1918 4J439a <emph render="italic">The Evening Post</emph>, 1911, 1918-1920 4J439a Assorted Correspondence: N, 1910-1934 4J439a Emma Sarepta Yule, 1931 4J439a Michael S. Farbman [?], 1919 4J439a John F. Harris, 1934-1937 4J439a Taft-Karger Letters, 1930-1932 4J439a Charles M. Faye, 1904-1912 4J439a Assorted Correspondence: E, 1826, 1919-1933 4J439a Assorted Correspondence, 1908-1943 4J439a Assorted Politicians & Officials, 1913-1934 4J439a Assorted Correspondence & Documents, 1919-1943 4J439a William S. Fleming case, 1921-1924 4J439a William S. Fleming Petitions & Briefs, 1922 4J439a Fiction Writings, undated National Taft Bureau Daily Bulletins Bound Notebooks: 4M699k March 5-31, 1912 4M699l April 1-30, 1912 4M699m May 1-31, 1912 4M699n June 1-30, 1912 4M699o Frank O. Lowden Public Relations Bound Notebook, January – March, 1920 2.325/D36g Oversized: 2.325/D36g Consolidated Press Association broadside, 1921 2.325/D36g “Chicago Election Frauds” reprint of Vernon article, 1933