DeBoice, Benjamin S. - Interview and Memoir
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- 1978 and 1979
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Judge DeBoice, a Republican probate judge 1930-50, recalls political figures at the local, state, and national level; presidential campaigns, National Conventions of the 30's and 40's, state and Sangamon County politics, his law practice near Clinton, Dewitt County history, and Illinois land barons. He discusses his family history, military service during WWI, the 1918 influenza epidemic, prohibition, and the effects of the Great Depression. He a...
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DeBoice, Benjamin S. (Judge) (1889-1982)
- Contributing Institution
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- Subjects
- Darrow, Clarence
Depression, 1929
Dewey, Thomas
DeWitt County (Ill.)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (President, U.S., 1953-1961)
Illinois Commerce Commission
Influenza Epidemic, 1918
Judges
Lawyers
Political Conventions
Prohibition
Republican Party
Stevenson, Adlai Ewing II (Governor, Illinois, 1949-1953)
Truman, Harry S (President, U.S., 1945-1953)
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945 - Language
- English
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- © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html
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- DeBoice, Benjamin S. (Judge) (1889-1982). DeBoice, Benjamin S. - Interview and Memoir. 1978 and 1979. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/1829. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- DeBoice, Benjamin S. (Judge) (1889-1982), (1978 and 1979) DeBoice, Benjamin S. - Interview and Memoir. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/1829
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- DeBoice, Benjamin S. (Judge) (1889-1982). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/1829>.