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Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:

Clinton DeWitt Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0267
Summary

Letters (in part transcriptions) from Smith to his family in Washington, D.C., regarding Idaho government and the relocation of the territorial capital from Lewiston to Boise; other family correspondence; newspaper clippings; and six Smith family photographs. Accompanied by a 1948 article about Smith.

Dates: 1862-1948.

David William Davis papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0116
Summary

Statements of liabilities and resources from Davis's First National Bank of American Falls, Idaho (1920-1921); an appraisal of the legislative program proposed by Davis as governor of Idaho; and a scrapbook concerning his term as governor (1919-1922).

Dates: 1920 - 1922

Democratic National and State ticket

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1090
Summary

Collection contains pamphlet describing Democratic candidates and issues of 1916.

Dates: 1916

Democratic Party (Alturas County, Idano) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1094
Summary

Collection contains the Democratic ticket for Alturas County, 1879.

Dates: 1879

Democratic State Central Committee (Boise, Idaho) scrapbook

 Item
Identifier: MS 2.01/11
Summary

Newspaper clippings, leaflets, and campaign materials concerning the 1908 elections. Includes copies of the national Democratic and Republican party platforms, and of national, state, and county tickets.

Dates: 1908

Denver P. Dayton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0787
Summary

Campaign card describing Dayton's platform as a Republican candidate for Idaho State representative and letter to J.D. Carey requesting his support in the primary election.

Dates: 1916

Don Samuelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0517
Summary

Legislative files maintained by Samuelson. Includes correspondence, subject, and legislative files.

Dates: 1961 - 1965

Doran Hollister Sutphen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0361
Summary

Legal documents pertaining to water rights, homesteading, and juvenile court in Gooding, Idaho. Also includes deeds primarily for Gooding County, Idaho, and correspondence with Senator John Thomas, Republican from Idaho.

Dates: 1902 - 1934

Douglas E. Bean speeches

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0321
Summary

Speeches prepared for Governor Don Samuelson while Bean was on the Governor's staff.

Dates: 1966 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1970

Drew W. Standrod papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0411
Summary

Correspondence and other papers, with some information relating to legal cases.

Dates: 1891 - 1935

Durrin Lindsey Badley letter : to T.J. Coonrod, Roseburg, Idaho

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0064
Summary

Urging attendance of a meeting of the Peoples Party State Central Committee in Boise.

Dates: 1892-09-10

Dwight William Jensen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0289
Summary

Transcripts of Jensen's evening reports as a correspondent covering Idaho news for KBOI television (1964-1968); notes from his coverage of the Idaho legislature (1963, 1967, 1971, 1974); and an assortment of notes and interviews on such subjects as Harry Morrison (1965), women legislators around the country (1973), and Idaho statehood.

Dates: 1964 - 1974

E. G. Davis papers [192-]

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0923
Summary

Campaign literature for E.G. Davis's campaign for the United States senate as a Republican from Idaho; and a pamphlet containing a statement of the settlement of the King Hill tax case, in which Davis served as attorney for the plaintiffs.

Dates: [192-]

Earl Wayland Bowman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0347
Summary

An annotated publication containing articles by Earl Wayland Bowman (1875-1952); issues (1916-1918) of The Golden Trail, a Boise, Idaho, magazine edited by Bowman; newspaper clippings (1916) concerning the Second Idaho Infantry in Nogales, Arizona, written by Bowman as a correspondent for the Capitol News, Boise; an annotated senate journal (1915-1916), from Bowman's term as Adams County senator; and unpublished manuscripts, reviews and poetry.

Dates: 1900 - 1923

Edward Dexter Holbrook letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0844
Summary

Letter, on congressional stationery, giving a brief autobiographical sketch.

Dates: 1866

E.G. Davis papers (1910-1920)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0007
Summary

Correspondence and legal case files. Correspondents include William E. Borah, Addison T. Smith, Byron Defenbach, and Frank Martin.

Dates: 1910 - 1920; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1914; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1920

Elias S. Suydam papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0599
Summary

Mining claim deeds, leases, memoranda of gold bullion deposits, and other records relating to mines in Lemhi County, Idaho; also State of Idaho election certificate and a copy of Thanksgiving Proclamation signed by Governor George L. Shoup.

Dates: 1890 - 1951

Equal Suffrage Association of Idaho (Boise, Idaho) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0100
Summary Constitution; by-laws; minutes (1895-1896); and letters from Sen. William E. Borah to the secretary of the Boise Chapter of the National Council of Women Voters, regarding his support of womens' suffrage (1916); from Mrs. T.J. Walsh, corresponding secretary of the Helena Business Woman's Equal Suffrage Club, congratulating the Idaho association on its success in amending the state's constitution (1897); and from Alice Paul, congressional chair of the National American Woman's Suffrage...
Dates: 1895-1916.