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Politics and Politicians

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 180 Collections and/or Records:

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: Mss 1838
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

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

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

Gerald H. Robinson collection on Wayne Morse's political career

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2595
Abstract

Papers and election data relating to the political campaigns of U.S. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, particularly his 1968 run for re-election and the subsequent recount. The materials were compiled, and some created, by Gerald H. Robinson, an attorney and photographer from Portland, Oregon. Robinson worked for Morse as an advisor and attorney.

Dates: 1947-1974; Majority of material found within 1967-1974

Richard Sanders photographic collection on Governor Barbara Roberts

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1125
Abstract

Four color and two black and white photographs of Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts.

Dates: circa 1991-2001

George Savage scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1316
Abstract

Scrapbook, January 5-25, circa 1886-1910, kept by George Savage of Skagit County, Washington. Savage was a timberman in the Washington Territory and ran for the state Legislature on the Socialist ticket.

Dates: circa 1886-1910

Scrapbook on politics in Portland, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 853
Abstract

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings that cover political issues in Portland, Oregon, from 1915 to 1917, including the 1917 mayoral election, as well as City Commissioner George L. Baker (1868-1941) and Mayor Harry Russell Albee (1867-1950). Albee was mayor of Portland from 1913 to 1917. Baker won the 1917 mayoral election, and remained in office until 1933.

Dates: 1915-1969; Majority of material found within 1915-1917