Political campaigns--United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2008109540. Records related to political campaigns in the United States.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Percy L. Gassaway Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-022
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 2 cubic feet of material and spans the period 1924-1942. Although the collection represents only a small part of the papers which must have been generated during Gassaway's term as a congressman, it does serve as a good source of information on Oklahoma politics at the time. Materials are divided into five sections: correspondence and business papers; congressional correspondence; speeches and press releases; miscellaneous; and oversize. The congressional...
Dates:
1924-1942
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...
Dates:
1890-1940; Majority of material found in 1930-1940
Fred R. Harris Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-026
Scope and Contents
The Fred R. Harris Collection, a sizeable collection of 309 cubic feet, covers the period 1963-1976. While the bulk of the materials pertain to Harris's congressional career, the records of the later period, 1972-1976, document both of Harris's presidential campaigns. The Harris Collection also contains invitations, schedules, post office files, clippings, constituent correspondence, government publications, speeches, reports, and legislation The Harris Collection is especially...
Dates:
1963-1976; Majority of material found in 1966-1976
James O. Hood III Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-PP-065
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of a wide range of political ephemera, including buttons, pins, bumper stickers, playing cards, party delegate pins, and hats. These items date from 1896 to 2008, with the bulk of the ephemera dating from 1950 to 1980. Pins and buttons are the strength of the collection. They come from a variety of political campaigns, such as Eisenhower’s 1952 run for president and the1960 presidential contest that pitted John F. Kennedy against Richard Nixon. Materials created...
Dates:
1896-2008
Jed J. Johnson Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-029
Scope and Contents
The Jed J. Johnson Collection is quite small (0.25 cubic feet) and consists mainly of speeches, campaign materials, publications, and newspaper clippings. Although the dates are widely distributed (1927-1947), most of the material deals specifically with Johnson's congressional career. Johnson's speeches and newspaper clippings pertain to issues and legislation facing Congress such as veterans, illegal aliens, taxes and tariffs, rural electrification, and achievements and failures of the...
Dates:
1927-1947
Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Collection
Collection — Coldstorage 1: Series PCC-KANTER-HOR; Series PCC-KANTER-ATTORNEYGEN; Series PCC-KANTER-BALLOT-CAMPAIGN; Series PCC-KANTER-CITY/COUNTY; Series PCC-KANTER-EDUCATION; Series PCC-KANTER-CITY/COUNTY
Identifier: PCC-KANTER
Scope and Contents
The Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Collection (PCC) is currently stored in the archives of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center’s Congressional and Political Collections. The Carl Albert Center, founded in 1979, is one of the leading congressional archives in the country with over 60 member collections. The PCC is the largest collection of political commercials in the world and the only comprehensive collection that covers all levels of political campaigning
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Dates:
Broadcast: 1912-2016
James V. McClintic Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-034
Scope and Contents
The McClintic Collection contains slightly more than one cubic foot of material, dating 1910-1947, which provides some documentation of the man's elective and administrative career, as well as his family. Arrangement is chronological by office held. For his time in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, there is 1911 correspondence concerning state politics and a school land bill for Hobart, Oklahoma, as well as legislation to require health certificates mandatory prior to marriage....
Dates:
1910-1947
John M. Meek Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-PP-068
Scope and Contents
The John M. Meek Collection is a small collection which includes material on aspects of the organization of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, from hotel accommodations to first aid and security to requests from committees and entertainers to appear at the convention. While there is a copy of the proceedings of the convention, there is little else in the papers that relates to the event as it occurred. Most materials concern preliminary preparations for the convention. A small...
Dates:
1934-1999; Majority of material found in 1967-1968
Jim Monroe Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-PP-069
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Monroe's work with Senator Harris. Topics include the Democratic Party at both the national and state levels, national and state political campaigns, and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972. There is considerable material on Harris's quest for the presidency in 1972. In addition, there is material on LaDonna Harris, the senator's first wife and longtime Native American activist.
Dates:
1958-1972; Majority of material found in 1964-1972
Dick T. Morgan Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-039
Scope and Contents
The Morgan Collection, of more than 10 cubic feet and primarily covering the period 1880-1920, contains numerous series: Family and Personal Correspondence; Political and Business Correspondence; Subject Files; Speeches (chronological arrangement); Speeches (alphabetical arrangement by subject); Congressional Bills and Publications; Religious Material; Cards, Invitations, Memorabilia, Pamphlets, Programs, Travelogues, etc.; Scrapbooks and Bound Materials, Clippings and Miscellany; and...
Dates:
1880-1928