Indiana -- Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:
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 contains mainly original correspondences of Raymond E. Willis including his campaigns for senator in 1938, 1940, and 1946 and his years as a 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. The materials are in chronological order.
Dates:
1936-1950
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Raymond E. Willis papers
Republican Victory League of Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S1616
Identifier: S1616
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises an undated letter to Mr. Ward is signed by William G. Irwin, president of the Republican Victory League of Indiana regarding the organization's refusal to support any particular political candidate or group and its mission to oppose "the Roosevelt-New-Deal institutions."
Dates:
circa 1930s
Richard W. Thompson collection
Collection
Identifier: L158
Scope and Contents
The collection consists principally of Richard W. Thompson’s political correspondence, including correspondence regarding state and national Whig and Republican party politics, and Thompson’s role in political campaigns (1840s-1880s); letters from constituents during his terms in Congress regarding political appointments and local politics (1841-1849); Civil War correspondence, including correspondence regarding state and national politics and Thompson’s duties in Terre Haute (1861-1865); his...
Dates:
1818-1931
Robert Bracken papers
Collection — Folder S2234
Identifier: S2234
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of correspondence sent to Robert Bracken, including an April 12, 1924 letter from D.C. Stephenson asking for influence in getting state funds for deposit for the Lincoln Savings Bank of Evansville; a November 6, 1925 letter from former Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray from Atlanta, Georgia asking Bracken, as a member of the Board of Finance, to help him and contact James A. Finch, a pardon attorney in the Department of Justice; and a circa 1925 note from...
Dates:
1922-1925
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert Bracken papers
Robert K. Kyle collection
Collection
Identifier: L312
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and publicized writings, scrapbooks, clippings and photographs from Robert K. Kyle ranging from 1900 to 1978. It also contains correspondence from his time working as a newspaper editor at the Indianapolis Star and chair of the Department of Conservation for the State of Indiana.
There are also blueprints for the home of Robert K. Kyle and an Indianapolis Press Club award from 1974 (OBC090).
There are also blueprints for the home of Robert K. Kyle and an Indianapolis Press Club award from 1974 (OBC090).
Dates:
1900-1978
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert K. Kyle collection
Robert K. Kyle photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P006
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Robert K. Kyle in Indiana ranging from circa 1867 to 1978 regarding Kyle's daily life, family, work, recreational activities, and retirement.
Dates:
circa 1867-1978
Robert M. Taylor, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: L469
Scope and Contents
The collection contains personal correspondence of various family members, receipts related to properties the Y.W.C.A. owned and operated; a genealogical sketch of the Taylor family’s history, minutes of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society meetings, various broadsides, a single poll book from 1930 that lists voters and their political affiliation, and papers and scrapbooks of the Indianapolis branch of the Y.W.C.A.
Dates:
1868-1971
Robert S. Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: L563
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence and papers from Robert S. Taylor in Indiana, ranging from 1860 to 1918 with the bulk of the materials covering the 1870s-1910s. The papers mostly consist of Taylor’s legal correspondence with an emphasis on his patent cases. Among these materials is correspondence regarding patent cases involving the Fort Wayne Electric Company, Westinghouse, General Electric, American Bell Telephone Company, and various other companies and utilities. The...
Dates:
1860-1918, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert S. Taylor papers
Roger D. Branigin papers
Collection
Identifier: S0159
Scope and Contents
This collection includes memoranda, letters and a handwritten speech from Roger D. Branigin and others in Indiana ranging from 1965/03/25 to 1966/10/27 regarding a school play, budgetary matters, a contract and a speech concerning waterways in Indiana and Kentucky.
Dates:
1965-1966
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Roger D. Branigin papers
