PAPERS OF
FREDERICK ELLIOTT BIERMANN

Scope and contents

Box 1 Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1933 -- 1934

Box 2 Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1934 -- Correspondence with constituents and voting lists, 1934

Box 3 Correspondence with editors and constituents, 1934-1935 -- Correspondence with constituents and voting lists, 1935

Box 4 Correspondence with constituents and voting lists, 1936

Box 5 Correspondence with constituents, 1936-1937

Box 6 Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1937 -- Correspondence with constituents, 1938

Box 7 Correspondence with constituents, 1938

Box 8 Correspondence with constituents, 1938 -- Condolences for loss of election

Box 9 Electioneering - campaign letters, 1938 -- Campaign contributions and expenses, 1938

Box 10 Voter lists and newspaper clippings including Mr. Biermann's obituary

Box 11 H.A. Wallace -- Corn - hog section, AAA

Box 12 Election, 1938 -- Veterans pensions information

Box 13 Stanley -- Annapolis appointment, 1935

Box 14 Butter purchases -- Unfinished business

Index of correspondents

Frederick Elliott Biermann was born in Rochester, Minnesota, on March 20, 1884. His family moved to Decorah, Iowa, in 1888. Biermann attended the University of Minnesota before transferring to Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1905. He later attended Valder’s Business College in Decorah and the Harvard Law School. In 1906 and 1907, Biermann homesteaded in North Dakota. Moving back to Decorah, he became the editor and publisher of the Decorah Journal. He continued with the newspaper until 1931, with time out to serve in the army during World War I. Active in local affairs, Biermann was Decorah’s postmaster from 1913 to 1923 and their park commissioner beginning in 1922.

A Democrat, Biermann was elected to the US House of Representatives. He was a member of the 73rd, 74th, and 75th Congresses (1933 - 1939). After leaving office, he was appointed US Marshall for northern Iowa. He held that position from 1940 until 1953. Biermann died on July 1, 1968, at the age of 84.

The papers of Frederick Biermann consist of seven linear feet of manuscripts dating from 1932 to 1968. The vast majority of this collection relates to his career in Congress. Correspondence files, with letters from Guy M. Gillette, Earl W. Hall, Herschel C. Loveless, and W.W. Waymack, comprise the bulk of the papers. The rest of the collection is made up of speeches and campaign materials. The subjects discussed range from New Deal programs such as the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the Works Progress Administration to Biermann’s newspaper, the Decorah Journal; Democratic politics to farm relief; postmasterships to taxes.

Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1933 (2 folders)

Correspondence with constituents, 1933

Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1934

Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1934

Correspondence with both editors and constituents, 1934 (2 folders)

Correspondence with constituents and voting lists, 1934 (2 folders)

Correspondence with editors and constituents, 1934 -- 1935 (2 folders)

Correspondence with constituents, 1935 (2 folders)

Correspondence with constituents, 1936 (4 folders)

Correspondence with constituents, 1936

Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1936

Correspondence with editors and constituents, 1936

Correspondence with constituents, 1937

Correspondence with editors and clippings from district newspapers, 1937

Correspondence with constituents, 1937 - 1938 (3 folders)

Correspondence with constituents, 1938 (4 folders)

Correspondence with constituents, 1938, cont. (2 folders)

Condolences for loss of election, 1938

Electioneering -- campaign letters, 1938 (2 folders)

Receipts

Thompson Case

Job applications

Voter lists

Speeches

Gold purchase bulletins, etc.

Campaign contributions and expenses, 1938

Voter lists and newspaper clippings

H.A. Wallace

Correspondence:

1932 -- 34

1935 -- 37

1938

1939 -- 42

1968

CCC camps

Bank jobs

West Point exam, 1935

H.R. 5735 -- Shoe labeling bill

Forbes Morgan, 20 July 1933

Post Office

Banks, National closed or restricted

Bank jobs

Corn-Hog Section, AAA (3 folders)

Election, 1938

Miscellaneous

Bank receivers and examiners

Wild life refuge -- McGregor

Congressional Record

Veteran's disability claims

Star routes

Congratulations and condolences, 1936

C.A. Benson

Annapolis

Riceville creamery -- Riceville 32515A Butter

Economy act

Bonus

Decorah bank -- new

Veterans pensions information

Stanley

Thornton

Wauconia

4th District

Clippings (2 folders)

Appointment dates

Biermann for Congress Club

Benson, Charles -- Elkader

Nine Foot Channel -- press comments

Annapolis appointment, 1935

Butter purchases

West Point, 2nd term

West Point, 1st term

Bank attorneys

Unfinished business

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