Dorothy McCullough Lee was a lawyer, a state legislator, and the first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon. Collection includes biographical sketches; photocopy of Lee's last will and testament, 1972; inventory of Lee's papers at the Schlesinger Library of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and ephemera.

Papers include documents relating to legislation; Public Affairs Bulletin, 1956-1974; and newspaper clippings regarding the Oregon Legislature. An unprocessed addition to the collection includes speeches, poems, and manuscripts by Luiten, as well as articles, clippings, correspondence, and a scrapbook. Luiten (1915-1997) did public relations work for Weyerhaeuser and then became a Weyerhaeuser lobbyist to the Oregon Legislature, serving from 1953 to 1978.

Records compiled by the Lutheran Schools Committee of Portland, Oregon, largely as part of a 1922 political campaign to defeat the Compulsory Education Bill, which sought to make public school attendance mandatory in Oregon for children ages eight to sixteen. Materials include clippings, campaign literature, posters, correspondence, ephemera, and voter registration lists.

Jack Lynch (1896-1973) served as an Oregon state senator from 1943 to 1952. Collection includes correspondence, 1940-1973, regarding advice on campaign strategies to Douglas McKay and Bob Packwood; political speeches; legislative records regarding chiropractors, health professions, and small businesses; newspaper clippings and other papers regarding the "Fugitive Fathers Bill" and a bill prohibiting the sale of firecrackers, both of which were introduced by Lynch.

Correspondence, legislative records, speeches, and other materials relating to Hector Macpherson (1875-1970). Macpherson was a Canadian-American who taught at the Oregon Agricultural College (later Oregon State University) in Corvallis, and served in the Oregon Legislature as a representative for Linn County. As representative, he co-sponsored the unsuccessful Zorn-Macpherson School Moving Bill.

Thomas R. Mahoney (1896-1978) was an attorney and legislator, serving as an Oregon state senator from 1939-1952, 1961-1969, and 1971-1974. Papers consist of correspondence, 1952-1974, including a letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower and a letter from Washington Representative Margaret Hurley; newspaper clippings and ephemera; and scrapbooks regarding his political career.

Color photographs depicting the dedication of the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, including images of U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield, unidentified people at the event, and the dedication ceremony. Also included are photographs of staff and patients moving into the new center in April 2005, and a small quantity of materials related to the design and construction of the building.

Unprocessed collection of materials relating to the Democratic Party of Oregon, the Clackamas County Democratic Party, the League of Women Voters, and the NAACP.

Memorabilia relating to the mid-20th century legislative career of Eugene E. Marsh, including books by Murray Wade with caricatures of Oregon politicians; a yearbook for the 1951 Oregon Legislature; and photographs. Marsh was speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in 1945 and president of the Oregon Senate from 1953-1954.

Papers of and relating to Charles H. Martin (1863-1946), Ellis G. Hughes (1845-1909), and their families. Charles H. Martin served in the U.S. military from the 1890s to 1920s, attaining the rank of major general, and subsequently served as a U.S. representative and then as governor of Oregon. Ellis G. Hughes, who was Martin's father-in-law, was a prominent real estate attorney in Portland, Oregon.