Summary Information

Title: Joseph A. Padway Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1916-1940, 1946

Creator:

• Padway, Joseph A., 1891-1947

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 6; Milwaukee Micro 40; Micro 940

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 2 reels of microfilm [35mm]

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers, 1916-1940, 1946, of a labor lawyer, Wisconsin state senator and Milwaukee County judge. Padway became chief counsel for the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor in 1915 and for the American Federation of Labor in 1938. In addition he was politically active in Wisconsin as a Socialist until the mid 1920's, and as a Progressive thereafter. The papers contain subject files pertaining primarily to his political activities, personal interests, and travel; and scrapbooks covering his legal interests and more noteworthy cases.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00006

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