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Newton D. Baker portrait
No full textNewton Baker (1871-1937) was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1871. Baker moved to Cleveland, Ohio, sometime around the turn of the century. He set up a law practice in the town and, in 1903, was appointed the city's Director of Law. Baker served as Democratic mayor of Cleveland from 1912 to 1916. He stepped down to serve as Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson. He appointed General John Pershing to head the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War. In 1921 he stepped down to return to his law practice but remained active in the Democratic Party. He died on December 25, 1937
Letter From Newton D. Baker to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, January 8, 1918
No full textA typed letter from Newton D. Baker to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, dated January 8, 1918. Within, Baker writes in response to Wilson\u27s renewed offer of service to the War Department.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/fmhw_firstworldwar_documents/1050/thumbnail.jp
Letter From Newton D. Baker to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, February 6, 1917
No full textA typed letter written by Secretary of War Newton Baker to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson. Within the letter, Baker acknowledges Wilson\u27s recent offer of service.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/fmhw_firstworldwar_documents/1009/thumbnail.jp
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:Washington, D.C. to Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War.
No full textMemorandum from President Wilson to the Secretary of War, Newton Baker, in which the President expresses his desire to review the cases of the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry condemned to death or life imprisonment due to their participation in a race riot, in Houston, Texas, on the night of August 23, 1917. He encourages Baker to review the cases as well
Baker, Newton Diehl
No full textBrief biographical summary of the career and contributions to World War I of US Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
Acknowledgements for Brush's Article "Some New Experiments in Gravitation. Change in Weights of Metals under Strain" (1925 paper), 1925
No full textHandwritten index card from Newton D. Baker to Charles F., Sr. thanking Brush for sending his fifth paper on gravitation to Baker, who has read it.Charles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
Acknowledgements for Brush's article, "Discussion of a Kinetic Theory of Gravitation, II, and Some New Experiments in Gravitation," (1924 paper), 1924-1925 / Correspondence
No full textTyped letter from Newton D. Baker to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending his fourth paper on gravitation, which Baker thinks is important for its consideration of composition of mass in calculating gravitational pulls.Charles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
Acknowledgements for Brush's article "Discussion of Kinetic Theory of Gravitation, III, Some Experimental Evidence Supporting Theory; Continual Generation of Heat in Some Igneous Rocks and Minerals. Relation of this to the Internal Heat of the Earth and Presumably the Sun" (1926 paper), 1925-1926
No full textHandwritten notecard from Newton D. Baker to Charles F., Sr., thanking Brush for sending a copy of his paper, Kinetic Theory of Gravitation III, to BakerCharles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
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