JAMES ROBERT HAMILTON PAPERS, #3923, 1878-1927
Scattered papers and letters received by Hamilton, District Court judge of Travis and
Williamson Counties, Texas, Democratic Party executive committee chairman, and congressional
candidate in 1926. Materials chiefly relate to Hamilton's political affairs and legal career,
especially his charges to the grand juries of Travis and Williamson Counties concerning
investigations of the Ku Klux Klan (1921-1922). Documents relating to this matter include a
typescript of Hamilton's charge to the grand jury (1921); a typed report from the grand jury
to the judge concerning a specific case of Klan violence (1921); and letters received by
Hamilton following his charge (1921-1922). The collection also includes an undated anti-Klan
poem and a postcard of a gathering of approximately 1,000 Ku Klux Klansmen and onlookers with
the caption "Initiation--Dec. 8th, 1921--Houston Tex. Photo by A. Kluker." Microfilm
available.