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Politics and Politicians

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Nan Wood Honeyman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 193
Abstract

The collection consists of scrapbooks, personal and political correspondence, clippings, invitations and announcements, pamphlets, and ephemera of Nan Wood Honeyman, the first woman from Oregon to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat, 1937-1938).

Dates: 1901-1962; Majority of material found within 1935-1962

Betty Roberts memorabilia from 1968 Democratic National Convention

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1068
Abstract Memorabilia from the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, collected by Oregon delegate Betty Roberts (1923-2011). Materials include maps, a roster of Oregon delegates and alternates, a directory of Multnomah County Democrats, and a booklet by and a sticker for candidate Eugene McCarthy. Roberts was an Oregon state representative and the first woman to serve on the Oregon Court of Appeals and the Oregon Supreme Court. The 1968 Democratic National Convention was...
Dates: 1968

William W. Washburn letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1478
Abstract

Typescript letters to William W. Washburn from Edith Green, January 18, 1971, Wendell Wyatt, February 19, 1971, and photocopy typescript letter from Wayne Morse, September 30, 1973, concerning Democratic Party politics, the FDA and the drug dimethyl sulfoxide.

Dates: 1971-1973