Rolland Bradley papers
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.
Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas
This collection contains the papers of Rolland Bradley, Texas State legislator. The collection includes a bound manuscript copy of Bradley's master's thesis for the University of Texas on proportional representation in the United States. Also included are a manuscript copy of chapters 1-14, the introduction, and foreword by Barnes from his book "Our Ultimate Faith or the Gospel of Ethical Theism as Lived by the Complete Man" in which he puts forward the idea that religion is the most effective way to solve man's faults and problems. The collection also consists of a copy of a speech on "Americanism" and the need to guard liberty, and a one franc note issued later than 1914 by the chambre de commerce de Nantes to assist in the military crises.
Bradley, Rolland (Person)
This material is open for research. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.
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Rolland Bradley was born in 1896 in Michigan. He moved to Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his Master's degree. He then moved to Houston, TX and became a lawyer and eventually a member of the Texas State House of Representatives, 19th district, in 1929. He was also a Texas delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1944. Bradley died in 1967.
0.25 Linear Feet ( (1 box))
This collection contains the papers of Rolland Bradley, Texas State legislator. The collection includes a bound manuscript copy of Bradley's master's thesis for the University of Texas on proportional representation in the United States. Also included are several chapters of his book and assorted speeches and pamphlets.
Acquisition Information
This collection was a gift from the Bradley Estate and was received on August 27, 1974.
Texas--Houston
mss. Manuscript collections
politics. Politics
Texas-history. Texas and local history
Guide to the Rolland Bradley papers, 1930-1967
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
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Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
Houston Texas 77005 USA
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Rolland Bradley Papers, 1930-1967, MS 247, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/204 Accessed February 02, 2023.