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Politics and Politicians

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Fred L. Peterson

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9600
Abstract

Oral history interview with Fred L. Peterson conducted by Linda S. Dodds from February 11 to April 28, 1982. Peterson discusses serving on the Portland City Council from 1940 to 1952, and as Portland mayor from 1953 to 1956.

Dates: 1982 February 11-April 28

Walter Marcus Pierce papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2558
Abstract

Collection related to Walter M. Pierce, an educator, rancher, and politician who served as Oregon governor and in the U.S. House of Representatives. Materials include correspondence, primarily with family members and with J. A. Churchill, superintendent of public instruction, as well as minutes of the State Textbook Commission's meetings. Also included are Dictaphone belts made by Pierce's biographer, Arthur H. Bone, regarding Bone's research about Pierce and other topics.

Dates: 1916-circa 1965

Eugene Debbs Potts papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1827
Abstract

Unprocessed papers of Eugene Debbs Potts, a Democrat who served in the Oregon Senate in legislative sessions from 1961 to 1984, representing first Josephine County and later Josephine and Jackson counties.

Dates: 1963-1984

Radio news report on the death of Charles Sprague

 Collection
Identifier: SR9505
Abstract

This audio recording consists of an announcement, delivered by Robert Bruce, regarding the death of Charles Sprague on March 13, 1969. The announcement was recorded from the radio broadcast of an unidentified news program. Sprague was governor of Oregon from 1939 to 1943.

Dates: 1969 March 13

Referred to Judiciary!!!

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5357
Abstract

Pen and ink cartoon depicting Speaker of Oregon House Robert S. Farrell as a ventriloquist's dummy sitting on Representative Frank Lonergan's lap.

Dates: 1941

Republican Party State Central Committee of Oregon records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1845
Abstract

Republican Party State Central Committee of Oregon records include correspondence, administrative documents, press releases, financial records, legislation, campaign materials, and pamphlets.

Dates: 1945-1983

Right to Privacy Political Action Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 281
Abstract

Records of a lesbian and gay political action organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and active in fundraising in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Materials were collected by John E. Baker, who served as chair of the organization's board.

Dates: 1983-1991

Max Rijken papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1838
Abstract

Max Rijken, a Democrat, represented Newport in the Oregon State Legislature, 1975-1987. This unprocessed collection consists primarily of state legislative bills and related papers, as well as government and serial publications. Materials also include correspondence.

Dates: circa 1975-1986

Oral history interview with Betty Roberts

 Collection
Identifier: SR 11146
Abstract

Oral history interview with Betty Roberts conducted by Katherine Huff O'Neil from October 24, 2005, to February 27, 2007, as part of the Women Trailblazers series of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Roberts was an Oregon state representative, a state senator, a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, and a state Supreme Court justice.

Dates: 2005 October 24-2007 February 26

Harry Clarke Robertson scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2591
Abstract

Harry Clarke Robertson was clerk to U.S. Senator John Hipple Mitchell of Oregon. Collection consists of a scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards and ephemera regarding a 1902 visit to Hawaii of the Senate Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico, politics, Washington, D.C. social life, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates: 1901-1904