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College paper that Donna Brown (née Kemp) wrote about U.S. Representative Wendell Wyatt (1917-2009), two letters from Wyatt, and a clipping about Wyatt that was sent to Brown. Brown wrote the paper while on the Washington Semester Program as a student at Willamette University. Wendell Wyatt was a Republican U.S. Representative for Oregon from 1965 to 1975.

Abstract Nine volumes containing printouts and photocopied typescripts of Steve Forrester's columns for Northwest Newspapers. Northwest Newspapers was a news bureau in Washington, D.C., that Forrester owned from 1978 to 1987, and through which he distributed a news column to newspapers in Oregon, Washington state, and Idaho. The columns discussed U.S. Congress members from those states and legislation or political issues that related to the Pacific Northwest. Some of the columns are drafts that...

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Oral history interview with Edith Green conducted by Cynthia Harrison on December 18, 1978. Green represented Oregon's 3rd District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1955 to 1974.

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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).

Abstract Abraham Walter Lafferty (1875-1964) practiced law in Portland and was elected as a Republican to the sixty-second and sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915). He moved to New York City in 1919 and continued the practice of law there until 1933. He returned to Portland and later unsuccessfully ran for political office several times. Papers include letters to E. B. MacNaughton, January 1949, urging Reed College to purchase Calvert Mansion in Riverdale, Maryland; and miscellaneous...

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Autographed statement of U.S. Senator Harry Lane (1855-1917) regarding his position on the armed neutrality bill. The statement was written in response to criticisms of his position and claims that he had supported a filibuster of the bill. Lane was mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1905 to 1909, and was a U.S. senator for Oregon from 1913 to 1917. Lane opposed the United States' entry into World War I, and he died while in office.

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Oral history interview with Sara C. Lusk conducted by Linda S. Dodds from January 22-27, 1982. Lusk discusses her early life in Portland, Oregon; her art studies; and her marriage to Hall S. Lusk, as well as his career as a lawyer, judge, and U.S. senator.

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Documents, correspondence, scrapbooks, and ephemera relating to the public service and personal life of U.S. Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon.

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Correspondence and property records of members of the McNary family. James McNary (1790-1871) and Alexander McNary (1798-1860) emigrated to Oregon in 1845. James McNary's grandson Charles L. McNary (1874-1944) was a U.S. senator for Oregon.

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Speeches and three items of correspondence of U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell (1935-1905). Mitchell was a U.S. senator for Oregon who servered at various points from the 1870s to the 1900s. In 1905, he was convicted of having accepted bribes, and he died while awaiting an appeal for his conviction.