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Archives Photo at Right, Clarence Morley The Clarence Morley
Collection comprises 16 cubic feet of material, most of which
spans his term of office from 1925-1927. One cubic foot covers
1935-1945 when Morley was arrested and sent to federal prison
for mail fraud. Record series included in the collection are
applications and appointments to office, correspondence, the
Executive Record, extraditions and requisitions, reports,
speeches and messages, newspaper clippings and ephemera,
photographs, and a special series "U.S.A. vs. Morley/Mail Fraud
Case and Correspondence." Most of the collection is in its
original format and is in good condition. Strengths of the
material include documentation concerning the legislation that
was introduced during his term, Prohibition, affairs of the
various state agencies, and especially the court case
surrounding his crime of mail fraud. Documentation concerning
the Ku Klux Klan is found indirectly through such items a