Mac Swinford Collection, 1932-1975
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Mac Swinford Collection, 1932-1975
- Creator
- Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975
- Extent
- 36 cubic ft.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Mac Swinford was born on December 22, 1899 in Cynthiana Kentucky. Upon graduating from Cynthiana High School in 1919 he attended the University of Virginia. He began law practice with his father, M. C. Swinford, after attaining his law degree in 1925. Like his father, Swinford served as a Kentucky State Representative from Harrison County in the Kentucky General Assembly from 1926 to 1928. He was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky in 1933 and was named United States Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. In 1963 he became chief judge of the Eastern District of Kentucky. He stepped down in 1969 although he continued to hear cases in the Eastern District until his death on February 3, 1975.
- Swinford married Minnie Benton Peterson and was the father of five children, Mary Jouett (Judy) Swinford Reed, John McKee Swinford, who also served as state representative, Sarah Hanson Swinford Kinney, Alice Jane Swinford Kolbe, Ann Gregg Swinford Dunn. He enjoyed travel and literature, traveling extensively and forming a literary group called the Inquisitor's Club. He was also an avid fox hunter. Swinford's 1963 book, Kentucky Lawyer, presented a humorous take on the state's lawyers and courtroom stories. Swinford was active in the Cynthiana Presbyterian Church, serving as elder emeritus and teaching Sunday school classes for 38 years. Described as "an old-fashioned gentleman" who "never wanted to be anything but a lawyer," Swinford's 38-year judicial career was one of the longest of any federal judge.
Contents of the Collection
Clippings Series, 1938-1981
Baseball - Clipping and Artwork
Dam Projects - Articles and News Clippings, 1972-1974
Garden Clubs, early 1970s
General, 1965-1970
General, 1971-1975
Cissy Gregg
Harrison County History
Jack Jouett, Revolutionary War
Kentucky Derby, Interview with Bill Hartack, April 19, 1970
Miscellaneous
Miss Lucy Peterson
National Politics, 1965
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Speeches 1938, Obituaries 1945
M.C. Swinford
Swinford Family, 1954-1981
Tobacco
Correspondence Series
Personal and Political 1932-1937
James Cleveland Matter, 1935
"A-B" 1932-1937
"B-C" 1932-1937
"C-E" 1932-1937
"F-G" 1932-1937
"H-J" 1932-1937
"K-L" 1932-1937
"M-O" 1932-1937
"P-R" 1932-1937
"S" 1932-1937 (Folder A)
"S" 1932-1937 (Folder B)
"T-V" 1932-1937
"W-Z" 1932-1937
Personal and Political 1937-1975
"A"
"B"
"C" (Folder A)
"C" (Folder B)
"D"
"E"
"F"
"G"
"Get Wells" (Folder A)
"Get Wells" (Folder B)
"H"
"I"
"Insurance and Hospitalization"
"Invitations"
"J" - General
"J" - Judicial Conferences
"K"
"Kentucky Lawyer" (Folder A)
"Kentucky Lawyer" (Folder B)
"L"
"M" (Folder A)
"M" (Folder B)
Miscellaneous
"N"
"O"
"Presbytery - 1969"
"P"
"R"
"S" (Folder A)
"S" (Folder B)
"T"
"U"
"V"
"W" (Folder A)
"W" (Folder B)
"X-Y"
General Personal, Political and Academic Correspondence 1930s-1975
Family History Series
Correspondence, 1869
Edd R. Gregg - Account book/diary, 1941-1942
Edd R. Gregg - Scrapbook contents (excluding photos)
Daisy Jouett Jenkins - "Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Edwards," 1941
Daisy Jouett Jenkins - Daughters of the American Revolution Application
Daisy Jouett Jenkins - "First Churches of Cynthiana"
Daisy Jouett [Jenkins] - "Floral Album"
Daisy Jouett Jenkins - "Great Pioneer Women of America"
Daisy Jouett Jenkins - History of Cynthiana
Daisy Jouett Jenkins - "Luther Rice: A Review of His Life," 1936
Daisy Jouett Jenkins - Miscellaneous Writings
McClintock Family History
McKee Family - Clippings, 1911-1943
McKee Family History (Folder A)
McKee Family History (Folder B)
Miscellaneous Family Writings
Peterson/Swinford Correspondence and Writings
Rankin Family History
Swinford Family History - Correspondence, 1945-1981
Swinford Family History - Clippings, Correspondence, Deeds, Poetry and Speeches, 1936-1973
(Alice) Jane Swinford
Allie McKee Swinford - Estate - Cancelled Checks
Allie McKee Swinford - Estate - Settlement and Taxes
Allie McKee Swinford - Estate - Stocks and Bonds, Correspondence
Ann Gregg Swinford
John Swinford
McCauley C. Swinford (1857-1952) - Clippings, Eulogy, Genealogy
McCauley C. Swinford (1857-1952) - Estate - Cancelled Checks
McCauley C. Swinford (1857-1952) - Estate - Correspondence
Mary Jouett Swinford Reed
Sally Swinford - Includes Vassar College Materials
Sarah Swinford
Legal Series
General Legal Materials
"History of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky"
Legal and Judicial Notebook (Folder A)
Legal and Judicial Notebook (Folder B)
Legal Precedent Files (Folder A)
Legal Precedent Files (Folder B)
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit - Draft Opinions With Swinford's Comments (Folder A)
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit - Draft Opinions With Swinford's Comments (Folder B)
Unites States District Attorney Nomination - Correspondence and Endorsements, 1932-1933 (Folder A)
United States District Attorney Nomination - Correspondence and Endorsements, 1932-1933 (Folder B)
United States Supreme Court - Drafts and Final Opinions, 1967-1974
University of Kentucky - American Association of University Professors, J.W. Patterson, et. al. vs. Louie B. Nunn, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Otis Singletary, President of the University of Kentucky - Ruling, May 14, 1970
Legal Daybooks
1938
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1958
Personal Series
Antiques - Correspondence
Automobile - Bill of Sale, Invoice, 1967 and 1973
Bills, 1975
Bills, 1974 (Folder A)
Bills, 1974 (Folder B)
Bills, 1973
Bills, 1972
Bills, 1971
Bills, 1970
Bills, 1965-1969
Cattle - Newsletters, Registrations, Vaccinations
The Chase Magazine - Correspondence
Check Stubs, 1966-1968
China Trip - Application for Tour Membership
Derby Breakfast Invitations, 1973-1974
"Fan Mail" (Negative Letters Rec'd) (Folder A)
"Fan Mail" (Negative Letters Rec'd) (Folder B)
"Fan Mail" (Negative Letters Rec'd) (Folder C)
"Farm - 1964" (Papers 1961-1965)
"Farm - 1966"
"Farm - 1967-1968"
"Farm - 1969/Miscellaneous Farm Papers"
Farm Information, 1969-1971
"Farm - 1970"
"Farm - 1971"
"Farm - 1972, No Misc. for '73"
"Farm - 1972" - "Tobacco" (Contains Materials 1972-1973)
"Misc. - Farm - 1974"
Hiram Church Ford - Memorial Service, Oct. 6, 1969
Foxhounds - Correspondence and Veterinary Bills
Fox Hunting Correspondence, 1937-1950 (Folder A)
Fox Hunting Correspondence, 1937-1950 (Folder B)
Furniture Receipt, 1970
Inquisitor's Club - By-laws and Program Schedules, 1943-1973
Inquisitor's Club - Correspondence and Clippings, 1943, 1966-1969
Horses - Correspondence, Catalogs, Clippings, Transfer Forms
Hound Pedigree Charts
Kentucky Lawyer - Corrected Manuscript
Kentucky Lawyer - Corrections and Suggestions
Kentucky Lawyer - Correspondence, 1963
Kentucky Lawyer - Correspondence and Royalty Statements
Kentucky Lawyer - Critical and Congratulatory Correspondence (Folder A)
Kentucky Lawyer - Critical and Congratulatory Correspondence (Folder B)
Kentucky Lawyer - Draft with Marginal Notes
Kentucky Lawyer - Manuscript
Kentucky Lawyer - Notes and Handwritten Drafts
Kentucky Lawyer - Proofs
Kentucky Lawyer - Proofs
Kentucky State Foxhunter's Association, 1936
Lord Halifax - Correspondence 1944-1946, Details of Cynthiana Hunting Trip
Marriage Certificate and Wedding Invitations
Miscellaneous Memorabilia
Notes and Clippings (Folder A)
Notes and Clippings (Folder B)
Notes and Clippings (Folder C)
Notebook
Passports
Personal Correspondence, 1969-1975
Red Gate Farm - Order Books, 1945-1957
Red Gate Farm - Order Books, 1957-1973
Mac Swinford Scrapbook Items (Removed from Mac Swinford Scrapbook - Excludes Photographs)
Short Story Manuscripts, Early 1930s (Folder A)
Short Story Manuscripts, Early 1930s (Folder B)
Social Security Card and Account Statements
Tobacco Way Bills, Jan. 1970
Travel
University of Virginia
Vacation Journal (England, France), June-July 1955
Vacation Journal (Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan), July-August 1955
Vacation Journal (Jordan, Israel, Greece, Spain) August-September 1955
John Yost - Correspondence and Memorabilia
Presbyterian Church Series
Cynthiana Presbyterian Church - 1966 Budget Proposal
Cynthiana Presbyterian Church - Congregational and Legal Business, 1966-1972 (Folder A)
Cynthiana Presbyterian Church - Congregational and Legal Business, 1966-1972 (Folder B)
Cynthiana Presbyterian Church - Congregational and Legal Business, 1966-1972 (Folder C)
Cynthiana Presbyterian Church - Congregational and Legal Business, 1966-1972 (Folder D)
Correspondence, Clippings, Orders of Service, Proposals, 1969-1973
"General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church" - 1969 (Folder A)
"General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church" - 1969 (Folder B)
"General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church" - 1969 (Folder C)
Miscellaneous - Cynthiana Presbyterian Church
Publications Series
American Bar Association - Lawyer's Economic Problems and Some Bar Association Solutions
American Bar Association Journal, October 1929
J. Winston Coleman - Lincoln and "Old Buster", February 1944
Cooperative News, January 1963
Courier-Journal, Centennial Edition 1968
Homer Cummings - The State of Connecticut vs. Harold Israel
Sam Ervin, Jr. and Ramsey Clark - Role of the Supreme Court: Policymaker or Adjudicator?, 1970
Grand Lodge of Kentucky Daily Proceedings, October 16, 1928
Charles A. Graves - Questions on Evidence, 1916
Harrison Memorial Hospital Building Program and Miscellaneous Information
A History of the Democratic Party
"A Hunting We Will Go - Chagrin Valley Hunt, 1946"
"Kentucky - Walt Whitman's Uncompleted Poem" 1960
Kentucky Bar Journal, April 1973
Kentucky State Bar Journal, March 1963
Kentucky State Bar Journal, March 1954
Legal Brief for the Appellee - United States Circuit Court of Appeals - Pharoah W. Johnson et. al. vs. United States, 1935
"Let It Be"
Masonic Home Journal, April 1, 1956
"175th Anniversary of Harrison County"
Presbyterian Survey, August 1952
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, October 1974
Bird Wells Rice - One Dozen Rhymes, 1935
Robertson County Review, July 1971
Seventy-Fourth Annual Report of the Cynthiana Public Schools, 1946
Smith's Diagram of Parliamentary Rules, 1883
Bertha Spafford Vester - What is the American Colony? ca. 1953
University of Kentucky Libraries Bulletin XVII - "Writings on Kentucky History," 1955
Speech Series
Law Day Banquet - University of Kentucky, n.d.
Miscellaneous, n.d.
"Oil" - Inquisitor's Club, n.d.
Annual Jackson Day Dinner Address - Covington KY, January 1934
"The Lawyer's Oath" - (Location Unknown), 1939
"The Constitution of the United States" - Daughters of the American Revolution, Cynthiana KY, ca. 1939
Presbyterian Synod Meeting Speech - Jackson KY, October 1939
"Globolony" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1944
Memorial Day Service - Cynthiana KY, December 1944
"Our American Forests" - Inquisitor's Club, ca. 1944-1945
"Cynthiana - Whither Bound" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1946
"Some of the Factors for Consideration in Determining a Judgement in a Criminal Case" - Eighth Annual Conference of the Federal Judges of the Sixth Judicial Circuit - Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1947
"The Judicial Process in Federal District Court" - University of Kentucky, October 1947
Commencement Speech - Chase Law School(?) ca. late 1940s, early 1950s
"Justice - Can it be Improved?" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1950
"Democracy" - (Location Unknown), ca. 1950-1951
"A World Without Fear" - Inquisitor's Club, December 1951
"The Church and the World" - General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, June 1952
"Honorable Mayor and 'My Countrymen'" - July 1952
"Our Obligation" - New Orleans Presbyterians Layman's Association - February 1953
"Address to Naturalized Citizens" - Owensboro KY, February 1953
"Faith - What is its Value?" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1954
Younger Lawyer's Conference - Louisville KY, April 1954
"The United Nations 10th Anniversary" - (Location Unknown), 1955
"An Ancient Culture in the Ohio Valley" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1955
"Education - A National Obligation" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1956
Fayette County Bar Association Speech, January 1957
"Soil Stewardship" - Kentucky Department of Conservation, May 1957
"Christian Citizenship" - Centre College, June 1957
"Self-Incrimination" - (No Location), cd. 1958
"The Value of Partisanship" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1958
"Mr. Justice Samuel Freeman Miller" - Madison County Historical Society, April 4, 1958
"Moon Contact" - Inquisitor's Club, ca. January 1959
"Crowded Ways" - Sons of the Revolution - Lexington KY, April 1959
"Transportation - An Important Public Problem" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1960
"The Judicial Obligation" - Judicial Conference - Kentucky, April 5 1960
"The Coming Political Breakthrough" - Inquisitor's Club, July 1960
"Who Makes Our Laws Today? A Review of Legislation by Treaty and Court Decision" - Daughters of the American Revolution, Georgetown KY, January 3 1961
"Consolidation County and City Schools" - Cynthiana P.T.A. ca 1962
"Our Rendezvous With Destiny" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1962
"The Judicial Process in Federal District Court" - Centre College, November 27-1962
"Cuba and American Imperialism" - Inquisitor's Club, January 1964
Commencement Address - Newport High School, May 1964
Commencement Speech - Chase School of Law, June 1 1965
"Not Enough Government" - Inquisitor's Club, December 1965
"Not by the Sword" - Inquisitor's Club, November 1967
"Law Enforcement" - Lexington Junior Chamber of Commerce,April 1968
Judicial Conference for the Sixth Circuit Court - Lexington, May 1968
"Our Crime Problem" - Inquisitors Club, January 1970
"The United States Political Scene" - Inquisitors Club,October 1971
"Church and State" - (Location unknown), ca. 1972
"The First Judiciary Act" - Lexington, October 1972
"Watergate" - Inquisitors Club, October 1973
Minnie Benton (Peterson) Swinford Series
Rolled Items/Memorabilia Series
"Licks and Springs of Kentucky" by Daisy Jouett Jenkins, n.d.
"Historical Sketch of Early Cynthiana and Harrison County" by Daisy Jouett Jenkins, 1930
Daughters of the American Revolution Certificate, Daisy Jouett Jenkins
"History of Harrison County" by Daisy Jouett Jenkins, 1949
"Heraldic Arms" by Daisy Jouett Jenkins, 1932
"Where Lies the Land to Which Our Ships Must Go?" by Allie T. McKee
"Early Baptist Churches of Harrison County" by Daisy Jouett Jenkins, 1933
McKee Family History
Catechism Certificates for Alice Jane and Mary Swinford
Diploma - John McKee Swinford - Cynthiana High School, 1950
Diploma - Minnie Benton Peterson, University of Kentucky, 1924
Watch Chain Containing Two Photographs
1972 Bicentennial Coin
Two Bottles Which At One Time Contained Jordan River Water
Sand Dollar
Woven Bookmark
Name Tag From 80th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Engraved Printing Plate for Mrs. Mac Swinford
Engraved Printing Plate for John McKee Swinford
Photographic Series
Scrapbook (1) - Obituaries and memorial service memorabilia
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Table of Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Collection Overview
- Preferred Citation
- Contents of the Collection
- Clippings Series, 1938-1981
- Correspondence Series
- Family History Series
- Legal Series
- Personal Series
- Presbyterian Church Series
- Publications Series
- Speech Series
- Minnie Benton (Peterson) Swinford Series
- Rolled Items/Memorabilia Series
- Photographic Series
- Scrapbook (1) - Obituaries and memorial service memorabilia
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