Box CM 6
Container
Contains 89 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1947
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 39b
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_39b_0000
Scope and Contents
Includes booklet, You Can Vote: Summaries of State Registration and Voting Laws (issued by the Democratic National Committee).
Democratic National Committee, 1947
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 39c
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_39c_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerns presidential candidates; voter apathy. Correspondents include Carl Hatch, Hubert H. Humphrey, Scott W. Lucas, J. Howard mcgrath, Matthew M. Neely, and Guy M. Gillette. Speech by James E. Folsom, governor of Alabama. Press release from Herbert Holdridge.
Jefferson Day Dinner, 1947
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 40
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_40_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerns presidential candidates. Correspondents include J. Strom Thurmond, J. M. Wainwright, and Frank A. Scervini (chairman of the Robert A. Taft for President committee). Radio broadcast by Patrick W. Mcdonough supporting Truman-Barkley ticket.
Absentee Ballots, 1948
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 41
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_41_0000
Scope and Contents
Includes comic book on the story of Harry Truman; speeches by Alben Barkley.
Campaign, 1950 Elmer Thomas Campaign, 1948-1949
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 44
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_44_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Luther Bohanon, W. Lee O'Daniel, Theodore Francis Green, Spessard L. Holland, and W. J. Holloway.
Campaign Issues, 1948
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 45
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_45_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include William F. Knowland and Lowell Stockman,
Clippings, State and National Campaigns, 1947-1948
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 46
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_46_0000
Scope and Contents
Form letter to contributors to the 1944 campaign noting surplus for 1950 campaign.
Commodity Speculation, Correspondence A-H, 1948
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 47
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_47_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Carl Albert, J. H. Arrington, William O. Coe, and Oklahoma Farmers Union.
Commodity Speculation, Correspondence K-W, 1948
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 48
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_48_0000
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Joe S. Morris, Glen D. Johnson, John P. Logan, Mike Monroney, and Toby Morris
Contributions, 1948
File — Box: CM 6, Folder: 49
Identifier: CAC_CC_053_1_6_49_0000
Scope and Contents
Most of the material in the Thomas Collection was created during his senatorial years. Because Thomas served over half of his years in the Senate during the Great Depression and World War II, the collection is an excellent source on the history of the nation and Oklahoma during the 1930s and 1940s. The files reflect the national debate over these two major crises and include opinions of colleagues, figures in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, and other prominent personalities. Because...