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Andrew J. Biemiller Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-005
Scope and Contents
The Biemiller Collection contains 6.8 cubic feet of documents from Biemiller's congressional office. Almost all cover his second term (1949-1950), but a few date from 1946-1948. Over 90 percent of the collection is legislative correspondence. Correspondents are primarily constituents but also include labor officials, business leaders, congressional colleagues, and Wisconsin government officials. The most prominent topics represented are housing, physical disabilities, and taxation. Information...
Lyle H. Boren Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-007
Scope and Contents
The Boren Collection comprises more than 48 linear feet of papers dating 1885-1949, although the overwhelming majority date from 1933 to 1947. Most of the documents were created in or maintained by Boren's congressional offices (Washington, D.C., and Oklahoma), although items in the Personal and Family Files may have been kept at the congressman's home. Over the years a number of secretaries and assistants maintained the files, and the names of these people appear in the Office Files series....
Wilburn Cartwright Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-010
Scope and Contents
The Cartwright Collection consists of 65 cubic feet of documents, 11 scrapbooks, over 1,300 photographs, and multiple oversize materials including maps, campaign posters, and newspapers. The materials range in date from 1898 to 1951, but the majority of the materials are from Cartwright’s life in public service as a teacher, congressman, and state official from 1909 until the 1950s. The materials include legislation, publications, newspapers and newspaper clippings, speeches, and other items...
Wesley E. Disney Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-013
Scope and Contents
The Disney Collection consists of 8 linear feet with the majority of the materials covering his tenure in office, 1931-1944. Most of the documents were originally housed in scrapbooks, including newspaper clippings. Of particular note is Disney’s column, “Washington Letter,” that he wrote for local newspapers. There are also lists that contain extensive data about his constituents. The materials cover a variety of topics including prohibition, the Grand River Dam, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the oil...
Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-014
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...
Milton C. Garber Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-021
Scope and Contents
The Garber Collection contains materials from both his time as Mayor of Enid and as a member of Congress. It includes correspondence, speeches, supporting material, legislation, and publications mostly relating to the period of Garber's congressional career. Garber's legislative interests centered around adjusted compensation for veterans, agriculture, especially the Agricultural Marketing Act, salaries, and wages. The Garber Collection contains speeches delivered in the House and before the...
Thomas P. Gore Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-024
Scope and Contents
While the Gore Collection is only 15 linear feet, it contains a wide variety of materials related to topics important to Gore and Oklahoma. Many of the materials, especially the correspondence, come from Gore’s post-Senate years, but the Subject Correspondence and Papers are related to his time in the Senate and include documents related to Indian affairs, economics, national and Oklahoma politics, and both World War I and World War II. Because of his reputation as a nationally renowned orator,...
Toby Morris Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-040
Scope and Contents
The Morris Collection is quite complete, encompassing materials from all five of his terms in office. Morris gave this collection to the University of Oklahoma over a period of years beginning in 1952. Consisting of 53 cubic feet of material, the collection covers the period 1946-1960. It is strongest on subjects of a local concern to western Oklahoma. Among the items found in the collection are correspondence, bills, publications, clippings, and photographs. An additional donation was made to...
Robert L. Owen Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-043
Scope and Contents
The Owen collection is 2.1 cubic feet in size and includes material from 1913-1946, with the bulk falling between the years 1935-1942. The collection contains general correspondence pertaining to the Federal Reserve Act as well as a series of letters from various prominent Washington personalities. In addition, there are a number of documents published by the Government Printing Office. There is also a bound volume of Owen's speeches covering the years 1908-1914. This small...
Preston E. Peden Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-044
Scope and Contents
The Peden Collection covers the period 1946-1948. Consisting of 8 cubic feet of material, the collection consists primarily of correspondence. Constituent correspondence, which is arranged geographically, includes such subjects as utility concerns, issues, and personal requests. General non-constituent correspondence, arranged alphabetically, includes letters on the Taft-Hartley Bill, taxes on oleomargarine, aid for public schools, veterans benefits, Alaska homesteading, and dams. The remaining...
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- Biemiller, Andrew J., U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 5th district, 1906-1982 1
- Boren, Lyle H., U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 4th district (1937-1947), 1909-1992 1
- Cartwright, Wilburn, U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 3rd district, 1892-1979 1
- Disney, Wesley E. (Wesley Ernest), U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 1st district (1931-1945); Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1919-1924), 1883-1961 1
- Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980 1
- Garber, Milton Cline, U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 8th district (1923-1933); Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Oklahoma and Trial Judge of the Fifth Judicial District (1906-1907), 1867-1948 1
- Gore, Thomas P. (Thomas Pryor), United States Senator from Oklahoma (1907-1921); Oklahoma Territorial Senate's 11th district (1902-1905), 1870-1949 1
- Morris, Toby, U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 6th district (1947-1953; 1957-1961), 1899-1973 1
- Peden, Preston E., U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 7th district (1947-1949), 1914-1985 1
- Stigler, William Grady, U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 2nd district (1944-1952); Member of the Oklahoma Senate (1924-1932), 1891-1952 1
- Thomas, Elmer, United States Senator from Oklahoma (1927-1951); U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 6th district (1923-1927); Member of the Oklahoma Senate (1907-1920), 1876-1965 1 ∧ less
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