Politicians -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
Pleas E. Greenlee papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2388
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typewritten copies of the following speeches given by Pleas E. Greenlee: a July 11, 1934 address before the Democratic candidates for state legislature in Indianapolis; a circa 1935 speech given in Lake County, Indiana; a May 25, 1946 address to the Democratic Editorial Association at their spring meeting; and a February 28, 1948 Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner address given at the Murat Temple in Indianapolis. The collection also includes a typewritten copy of...
Dates:
1934-1948
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Pleas E. Greenlee papers
Political figures autographs collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1486
Scope and Contents
This collection contains signatures of United States Presidents, Indiana governors and other important political figures, including Calvin Coolidge, Jonathan Jennings, John Gibson, and Benjamin Butler. There are also letters from political figures and their staff regarding the acquisition of autographs from the 1930s.
Dates:
1887-1934
Portrait engravings collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3408
Scope and Contents
This collection includes many different engraving types and styles from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and encompasses many of Indiana's historic figures. The names are listed below by folder.Folder 1: A. W. Brayton, J. A. Howard, Joseph Holman, John A. Hendricks, William Henry Harrison, Charles White, R. Winton, W. W. Woollen, John Lambert Richmond, Gilbert Hathaway, Joseph Albert Wright, Robert Owen , Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, Robert Morrison, Benjamin Harrison,...
Dates:
1822-1934
"President Taft's Party and the Reception Committee" panoramic photograph
Collection — Object OBF008
Identifier: OBF008
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a black-and-white panoramic photograph taken by N. H. Losey at the house of Charles W. Fairbanks in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 4, 1911, depicting the members of President William Howard Taft's party and the local reception committee during his visit to the city. Most of the people in the photograph are male and wearling badges. Indiana Governor Thomas Riley Marshall, Charles W. Fairbanks, and Cornelia Cole Fairbanks sit to the left of the president at the front of...
Dates:
1911/07/04
Program collection
Collection
Identifier: L658
Scope and Contents
This collection includes programs from throughout Indiana ranging from 1836 to 2017 and undated regarding the following subjects:Series 1: Music- Includes programs related to concerts, recitals, and music schools.Series 2: Religion- Includes programs related to religious services, conferences, and events.Series 3: Art- Includes programs related to galleries and exhibits, art schools, antiques, and architecture.Series 4: Dance- Includes programs...
Dates:
1836-2017, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Program collection
Ralph F. Gates oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH020
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two copies of a transcript and a reel-to-reel audiotape of an interview with Ralph F. Gates conducted by Randall Jehs for the Indiana State Library Oral History Project on February 3, 1971. There are also clippings from 1976 to 1978.Gates discusses his family and childhood; his political views; Indiana Republican politics and his involvement; practicing law; the Ku Klux Klan; the American Legion; and running for Governor and his term in office. He also talks...
Dates:
1971/02/03
Raymond E. Willis papers
Collection
Identifier: L179
Scope and Contents
This collection comrpises correspondence of Raymond E. Willis from Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1936 to 1950 and undated, relating to his campaigns for senator in 1938, 1940, and 1946 and his years as a U.S. senator. It contains mostly political correspondences dealing with the Republican Party and Indiana politics. Also included here are Willis’s voting records from 1941 to 1944 and a scrapbook compiled about his 1940 opponent Senator Sherman Minton.
Dates:
1936-1950
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Raymond E. Willis papers
Reginald Hall Sullivan oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH019
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a transcript, 3 audio cassette tapes, and a reel-to-reel audiotape of four oral history interviews with Reginald Hall Sullivan conducted by Jerry Handfield for hte Indiana State Library Oral History Project in March-April, 1976. Sullivan was interviewed at Hooverwood Home in Indianapolis, Indiana. Only three of the four interviews were transcribed because some of the tapes were inaudible.In the transcribed interviews, Sullivan discusses his youth in...
Dates:
1976 March-April
Richard L. Roudebush papers
Collection
Identifier: L612
Scope and Contents
The collection is predominantly made up of correspondence between Richard Roudebush and various officials and constituents during the 89th, 90th and 91st U.S. Congresses (1966-1969).The collection includes correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to legislation on agriculture, air traffic safety, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, housing programs and other civil rights measures, defense spending, crime, flood control in the Colorado River Basin and the Wabash River Valley, air...
Dates:
1960-1976
Richard S. Simons, Indianapolis Literary Club address
Collection — Folder S1187
Identifier: S1188
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the thirty page typewritten address, "Who's the Hoosier?" that Richard S. Simons delivered to the Indianapolis Literary Club on November 16, 1953. His address highlighted many men and women who were either native Hoosiers or spent an important period of their lives in Indiana. He stated that Indiana qualified as the "Mother of Vice Presidents" and noted that a large number of Hoosiers have filled presidential cabinet posts, have been prominent congressmen, and have...
Dates:
1953/11/16
