Politicians
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
United States 32nd Congress, Indiana congressional delegation autographs
Collection — Folder S1832
Identifier: S1832
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a sheet of paper with autographs of the ten representatives from Indiana who served in the 32nd United States Congress from 1851 to 1853. One side of the paper contains the signatures of Thomas A. Hendricks, John G. Davis, Samuel W. Parker, Graham N. Fitch, John L. Robinson and Samuel Brenton.The reverse side includes the signatures of Cyrus Livingston Dunham, Willis Arnold Gorman, James Lockhart, and Daniel Mace.The collection also has a photostatic copy of...
Dates:
circa 1851-1853; 1951
United States speakers of the House crayon portraits
Collection
Identifier: A026
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 3 crayon englargments of portraits, circa 1860-1920, depicting men from Indiana who became speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives: John W. Davis, Schuyler Colfax, and Michael C. Kerr.
Dates:
circa 1860-1920
U.S. Joint Committee on the Conduct of War portrait photographs
Collection — Folder SP135
Identifier: SP135
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three black-and-white photographic prints of Radical Republican members of the U.S. Joint Committee on the Conduct of War during or after the U.S. Civil War, circa 1861-1865. The photographs are copies from the Brady Collection at the National Archives. There is also a photograph of Liberal Republican Carl Schurz.
Dates:
circa 1861-1865, undated
Vermillion County collection
Collection — Folder S1702
Identifier: S1702
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a copy of a list compiled in 1959 of state senators and representatives who served Vermillion County, Indiana from 1825 to 1959 and a copy of "The History of Clinton City Schools," a historical sketch written by an unknown author in 1962.
Dates:
1959-1962
Vigo County Public Library, Donald Eugene Foltz oral history
Collection — Box 73, Folder: OH173
Identifier: OH172
Dates:
1981/06/29
Virginia Ellis Jenckes collection
Collection
Identifier: L374
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Virginia Ellis Jenckes’s congressional papers. Also included are correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to the Agriculture Waste Recovery Project (1933–1943) and other efforts to help farmers during the Depression; flood control on the Wabash and White Rivers; railroads; women’s rights; education; and Communists in America, as well as her opposition to Communist radio broadcasts. The collection also contains papers relating to her political...
Dates:
1918-1951
Von A. Eichhorn papers
Collection
Identifier: L266
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from Von A. Eichhorn and others in Indianapolis and other cities in Indiana; newspaper clippings, departmental reports; committee reports, minutes and administrative papers; maps; photographs; agendas; memoranda; Senate and House bills; and newsletters ranging from 1938 to 1978 regarding state legislation, committee reports and studies, political news and analysis, statistics and financial information.
Dates:
1938-1978, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Von A. Eichhorn papers
Walter D. Myers papers
Collection
Identifier: L115
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, papers, newspaper and magazine clippings, political speeches, programs, name badges, buttons, and pins from Walter D. Myers and others in Indianapolis, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1905 to 1969, regarding Myers' education, career, political and family life, and achievements.
There are also Myers' certificate of appointment from 1940 and a newspaper clipping from 1948 (OB188).
There are also Myers' certificate of appointment from 1940 and a newspaper clipping from 1948 (OB188).
Dates:
1905-1969, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walter D. Myers papers
Walter D. Myers photographs
Collection — Folder SP084
Identifier: SP084
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs of Walter D. Myers in California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Claremore, Oklahoma; Chicago, Illinois; and other unidentified locations in the United States ranging from 1948 to 1952 and undated, depicting him with various people at social and political events, probably as part of his fourth assistant postmaster general duties.
Dates:
1948-1952, undated
Warren T. McCray collection
Collection
Identifier: L096
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two drafts of Warren T. McCray's memoirs, written shortly after his release from prison, describing his family and childhood, agriculture and business interests, political campaigns, and governorship, facsimiles of documents from his trial on mail fraud charges, and his time served in federal prison.
Dates:
1923-1927
