Indiana -- Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:
Owen and Orange counties election certificates
Collection — Folder S2411
Identifier: S2411
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an election returns document that certified the number of votes cast in Owen County for each candidate running for the office of governor and lieutenant governor in 1896. The certificate was signed by the clerk of the Owen Circuit Court on November 10, 1896 and includes the county seal. The second document is a sheriff's certification of the election of Perry McCart as joint representative of Dubois, Lawrence, and Orange counties, signed at the Orange County Courthouse...
Dates:
1896
Philip Shrader family papers
Collection — Folder S2297
Identifier: S2297
Scope and Contents
This collection contains four items from the Philip Shrader family of Fayette County, Indiana, including a December 28, 1835 letter sent to Shrader from A. C. Clark of Hamilton, Ohio regarding money from a mortgage; an October 8, 1836 indenture between Charles Campbell and Joanna Crawford, mother of James Scott, bonding James to Campbell as a servant from the date of the document until September 30, 1843 and signed in the presence of Philip Shrader, John Scott, and Lewis Turner; a copy of "To...
Dates:
1835-circa 1866
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 material collection
Collection
Identifier: L219
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, periodicals, campaign flyers, brochures, bumper stickers, buttons, pins, pencils, ribbons, sample ballots, appeals for donations, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles from local, state and national politicians in Indiana and the United States ranging from 1752 to 2017, regarding elections, campaigns, political issues, politicians, and elective office in Indiana and Washington, D.C.Oversize materials include political material concerning...
Dates:
1752-2017, undated
Porter-Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: L535
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises correspondence, papers, accounts, school and organizational papers, pamphlets, periodicals, publications, broadsides, ephemera, and business records from the Porter and Griffin families, as well as their business enterprises, in Corydon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1813 to 1983, regarding their lives and businesses, as well as related family and friends, and the history of Harrison County and Indiana. The collection is organized in eight...
Dates:
1813-1983
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
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
