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University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections Hampton Tucker Collection Tucker, Hampton (b. 1870). Papers, 1895–1945. 15 feet. Lawyer. Legal case files (1895–1945); correspondence (1895–1945); coal mining reports (1899– 1916); and related papers concerning Tucker’s service as mining trustee for the Choctaw Nation, 1912–1918, as national attorney for the Choctaw Nation, 1924–1929, and as mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, 1929–1949. __________________ Boxes 1 - 13A make up the series, “Legal File By Subject.” Most of the files in these boxes include points of law, as well as citations of various cases. Box 1 Legal File By Subject 1. Abstracts (primarily examinations of abstracts in and around McAlester and Pittsburg County, OK), 1920-31 2. Abstracts - Law Points (includes letter to the Choctaw people calling for a convention of Choctaw citizens, 3-12-1915), 1915, 1939 3. Acts of Congress (includes letter from Wilburn Cartwright), 1935-37 4. Adverse Possession (brief used in case of Lynch v. Wolf., n.d. 5. Affidavits, 1915 6. Agency, 1915 7. Appeal and Error, 1914 8. Atoka Agreement (discusses the question of whether or not the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations under the Atoka Agreement, as amended by the Curtis Act, reserved from allotment and provided for the leasing of the oil and gas in their tribal lands), 1927-28 9. Attorneys, 1913 10. Special Attorneys - Correspondence (includes correspondence with D.C. McCurtain, William H. Harrison, W.F. Semple, information re. case no. K-187 Choctaw Nation v. United States), 1925-29 Box 2 Legal File By Subject 1. Special Attorneys, Filing Suits, etc. (includes numerous letters between Tucker and William H. Harrison), 1926-28 2. Automobiles, 1914 3. Bills - Indian Affairs (includes correspondence between Tucker and U.S. Representative, C.D. Carter), 1911-28 4. Bills and Receipts, 1929-31 5. Campaign, Speech Data, 1928, 1930 6. Cancellation of Instruments, n.d. 7. Cattle Distribution to Indians (includes Choctaw Indian census information for Indians in and around McAlester and Pittsburg County, OK), 1934 8. Chattel Mortgages, 1915-23 9 Choctaw Advisory Council Meeting (minutes), 1935 10. Choctaw Convention (includes correspondence with C.D. Carter, William H. Harrison, W.F. Semple), 1926 11. Choctaw Indians - Data for Speech (speech at Goodland Indian School, census information, and information re. Indian schools), 1933 12. Choctaws - Data on Trachoma, etc., 1929 13. Choctaw Enrollment (list of Choctaws of 3/4ths to 7/8ths blood), n.d. 14. Choctaw Election (correspondence between Tucker and Ben Dwight), 1934 15. Choctaw History (news clippings), n.d. Box 3 Legal File By Subject 1. Choctaw Legislation, 1908, 1925 2. Choctaw Lumber Co., 1926 3. Choctaw Matters - Current (census info. re. intermarriage of Choctaw citizens), 1921, 1926 4. Choctaw Nation - Principal Chief (includes correspondence with William H. Harrison, Charles Burke of the Department of the Interior, Judge D.C. McCurtain, and W.B. Pine re. Tucker's appointment as Tribal Attorney for the Choctaw Nation and the case of J.F. McMurray v. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation), 1925-27 5. Choctaw - New Indian Bill (Howard-Wheeler Bill, "Proceedings of the Conference for the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma Held at Muskogee, OK, to Discuss the Wheeler-Howard Indian Bill"), 1934 6. Choctaw Schools (includes data covering the years 1900-29 re. Jones Academy, Spencer Academy, Tuskahoma Female Academy, and Armstrong Academy), 1929-30 7. Choctaw Tribal Government (essay, four pages), n.d. 8. Christie Collection Co., 1917-18 9. Coal and Asphalt Deposits (includes brief on segregated coal, coal analyses, and correspondence with Department of Interior and Oklahoma Corporation Commission), 1945 10. Coal and Asphalt: Correspondence (includes letters with Principal Chiefs Ben Dwight, W.A. Durant, Governor Floyd E. Maytubby, Senator Elmer Thomas, also includes list of segregated lots in Pittsburg County), 1944-45 11. Coal and Asphalt Data (correspondence and maps), 1927 12. Coal Deposits (statistics), 1918, 1927 13. Coal Deposit - Map of ("Segregated Coal Deposits, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in Oklahoma, McAlester District"), n.d. Box 4 Legal File By Subject 1. Coal Trustee (Hampton Tucker served several terms as mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in Oklahoma. This appointment was made by the U.S. Department of Interior. Folder includes correspondence with William Durant, Floyd Maytubby, Ben Dwight, and others, 1930-49 2. Collateral Attack, n.d. 3. Contracts, 1911 4. Corporations, 1912-37 File folders 5 and 6 contain the correspondence of W.R. McIntosh who served as mining trustee for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. 5. Correspondence - General (W.R. McIntosh), 1912-20 6. Correspondence - General (W.R. McIntosh), 1916-20 7. Correspondence (includes letters from William H. Harrison, D.C. McCurtain, and others), 1912-46 Box 5 Legal File By Subject 1. Correspondence (includes letters from William H. Harrison and Mrs. Green McCurtain, 1911-42 2. Correspondence - Personal (includes letters written by Tucker as Attorney for the Choctaw Nation, letter from Charles Victor concerning the appointment of Ben Dwight as Principal Chief, and letters from W.F. Semple), 1930 3. Correspondence - General, Washington (includes letters written by Tucker as Attorney for the Choctaw Nation), 1928 4. Correspondence with Washington (includes correspondence concerning the leased district claims of Choctaws), 1926 5. Courts, n.d. 6. Damages, n.d. 7. Depositions (various cases), 1913-17 8. District Court Judgments (various cases), 1914-23 9. District Court Proceedings (various cases), 1909-25 Box 6 Legal File By Subject 1. Ejectment, Escrow Agreements, n.d. 2. Evidence, n.d. 3. Execution, Levying, etc.; Fence, Legal, etc., n.d. 4. Exemptions, 1914-15 5. Forcible Entry and Detainer, 1913-36 6. Forms (examples of legal documents) 7. Fraud; Fraud in Conveyances, 1911 8. Frisco, Oklahoma City, Texas Railroad, 1929 9. Harrison, William Henry - Successor (correspondence re. the appointment of a Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation, correspondents include W.B. Pine, W.F. Semple, W.W. Hastings, C.H. Victor, Allen Wright, etc.), 1929-30 10. Hartshorne Coal Company, 1913 11. Hastings, Coal Bill, 1929 12. Heirship, Diagrams - Samples; Homestead - Law About, etc., 1918-22 13. Hugo Convention (Convention of the Choctaw people at Hugo, Oklahoma, October 20, 1925 to ascertain their sentiments with reference to their present tribal officials), 1925 Box 7 Legal File By Subject 1. Hugo Matters (materials concerning various cases handled by Tucker & Hunter Attorneys at Law, Hugo, Oklahoma), 1923-25 2. Indian Affairs (various matters involving the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs) 1926-30 3. Indian Lands, Taxation of, 1913-30 4-5. Indian Law Points, n.d. 6. Indian Laws (Recent), 1914-35 7. Indians - Roanoke College (clippings), 1932 Box 8 Legal File By Subject 1. Indian Rolls (statistics covering period from 1830 to 1907, printed documents pertaining to rolls, correspondence between Tucker and William H. Harrison), 1925-26 2. Indians - Speeches (notes), n.d. 3. Indian Tribal Matters; Indian Trust Estates (printed documents), 1910-30 4. Initiative & Referendum; Innkeepers, 1913 5. Injunctions; Injury to Stock, 1912 6. Interior, Department of (correspondence between Tucker as Mining Trustee and the U.S. Department of the Interior re. mineral tracts), 1933-37 7. Interstate Commerce Commission (re. coal shipments by rail), 1928-30 8. Joint Adventure; Judicial Sales; Justice of the Peace in General, 1913-14 9. Land Sales (re. sale of lands and mineral interests of Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations; sale of segregated coal deposits to the Defense Plant Corporation; correspondence with W.A. Durant, Ben Dwight, Floyd Maytubby, and W.W. Short), 1945-47, 1916 10. Landlord – Liability, n.d. 11. Leased District (information about treaties involving land 12. settlement with the Choctaws and Chickasaws; printed documents; correspondence with W.W. Hastings, Wilburn Cartwright, W.B. Pine, C.H. Victor, and W.H. Harrison; and briefs re. the "leased district claim," 1891-1931 Box 9 Legal File By Subject 1. Leased District (printed documents; correspondence with Charles Carter, et al.; typescript of Pitchlynn and Colbert speech explaining the signing of the 1866 treaty), 1924-26 2. Legal Phrases; Life Insurance, n.d. 3. Legislative Matters (documents concerning disposition of lands located on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad right of way), 1926-28, 1944 4. Legislation Proposed (River Bed Oil Leases, Coal Lease Bill, Leased District Bill, Indian Trust Estates Bill), 1925-27 5. Litigation as Attorney for Choctaw Nation (correspondence between Tucker and W.F. Semple; opinions of the Court of Claims of the United States re. the leased district claim; and other documents re. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations vs. U.S.; 1925-32 6. McAlester Abstract Company (dissolution), 1924 7. Mechanics Lien, n.d. 8. Mining Permits (correspondence of Tucker in his role as Mining Trustee; correspondence between Tucker and the Department of Interior; applications for mining permits and mineral leases; "Resolution of Board of Directors of Wilburton Oil Company;" and correspondence with A.M. Landman), 1931-37 9. Mining Trustee (documents relating to mine leasing by Thomas Coal Co., Pittsburg County, Oklahoma), 1915-34 Box 10 Legal File By Subject 1. Mining Trustee (documents relating to leasing by Cameron Coal Co., Kansas City, Missouri; and documents relating to salary vouchers and expenses of Tucker as Mining Trustee), 1930-33, 1947-49 2. Miscellaneous Publications (news clippings, programs), 1917, 1934 3. Mississippi Choctaws ("Memorial of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations Relative to the Rights of the Mississippi Choctaws;" documents relating to the Mississippi Choctaws Case; correspondence between Tucker and W.F. Semple), 1927-28 4. Mortgages, Renewals - Law Points, etc. (mostly points of law; some court documents), 1920-24 5. Motions (court documents; correspondence), 1914-15 6. Murder; Blacks (law points), n.d. 7. National Surety Co.
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