Elections
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Parke County, Indiana collection
Collection
Identifier: L304
Scope and Contents
The collections consists of a typed draft of Parke County's history. The draft is organized chronologically with the following chapters: Aboriginal Period, Aboriginal Period to the Period of Conquest, Period of Conquest, Period of Conquest and Settlement by Pioneer Whites, Indiana and Park County, Early Folk Stories, The Story of Salmon Lusk, and Turkey Run from 1880 to 1890. Additionally, the collection contains legal and financial documents (1858-1879), an article "The Indiana Reserve of...
Dates:
1858-1960
Paul V. McNutt for President in 1940 Club records
Collection
Identifier: L293
Scope and Contents
This collection includes meeting minutes, officers' correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and membership information from the Paul V. McNutt for President in 1940 Club ranging from 1933 to 1937.
Dates:
1933-1937
Philip Kabel papers
Collection — Folder S751
Identifier: S0751
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed originals from Peter Kabel, John Kabel and others in Jay County and Randolph County, Indiana ranging from 1858 to 1864 regarding voting, school building placement, and accounts receivable.
Dates:
1858-1892
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Philip Kabel 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
Ralph F. Gates collection
Collection
Identifier: L634
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, speeches, reports, and legislation from Ralph F. Gates'life and term as governor, ranging from 1917 to 1978, including papers relating to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the Indiana State Highway Commission, the Tax Study Commission, flood control, veterans' affairs, and labor and the Standard Oil Strike in Whiting in 1945. Also included are papers relating to the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party in Indiana; papers relating to...
Dates:
1917-1978
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ralph F. Gates collection
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
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
Sarah A. Wrigley collection
Collection — Folder S1466
Identifier: S1466
Scope and Contents
This collection includes four legal documents regarding the political offices held by John Finley in 1832 and 1837 in Indiana, concerning Finley's election to the office of clerk for the Wayne County Circuit Court over Samuel Hannah in August of 1837 and his 1832 appointment as marshall of the sixth district of Indiana in charge of collecting votes for the electoral college election from Governor Noah Noble.
Dates:
1832-1837
The Seed Sower clippings
Collection — Folder S1952
Identifier: S1952
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of articles printed in the supplement of The Seed Sower in 1894. The articles include a list of the Prohibition Party candidates for state offices, the Indiana State Prohibition platform adopted on March 15, 1894, the address given by Chairman P. T. McWhirter at the State Prohibition Convention on March 15th, and the article, "How to Lose a Vote."
Dates:
1894
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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The Seed Sower clippings
Thomas Carr Howe High School mock election booklet
Collection — Folder S2016
Identifier: S2016
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an unbound copy of the Thomas Carr Howe High School Social Studies Department mock election booklet from 1963. Following the Preface, Table of Contents, and Introduction, the booklet is organized into the following sections: General Introduction to Howe Election, Voting Qualifications, Registration Details, Political Parties, Precinct Committeemen, Party Organization, Primary Elections, Declarations of Candidacy, Convention Method of Nomination, Election Boards, Voting...
Dates:
1963 March
