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Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Clarence Dworshak records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0084
Summary

Congressional papers including correspondence and subject, legislative, and project files; appointments, applications, press releases and memorabilia. Also includes personal papers, such as correspondence, audio and video materials, travel files, subject files, and miscellaneous records relating to Dworshak's political campaigns and personal matters.

Dates: 1939 - 1962

Henry F. Samuels papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0567
Summary

Correspondence; Teton Coal Co. stock certificate; "Report of Idaho Cokoal Co"; various letterheads; state platform of the Progressive party of Idaho; newspaper clippings; and typewritten biography of Samuels, resident of Wallace, Idaho.

Dates: 1863 - 1951

Henry Westerman Whillock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0522
Summary

Records of Henry Westerman Whillock's business, political, military, and civic career. Includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs and subject files relating to his term as mayor of Boise; KDSH radio and KBOI television in Boise; attempts to locate a medical school in Boise; and campaign for governor of Idaho in 1966.

Dates: 1918 - 1985

Henry Z. Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0039
Summary

Correspondence, legal briefs, and miscellaneous records relating to Johnson's work on the Idaho State Council of Defense, and newspaper clippings regarding Idaho territorial history, prominent Idahoans, and Idaho politics.

Dates: 1869 - 1947

Herman Welker papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0429
Summary

Three scrapbooks (1953-1956), relating to Herman Welker's senatorial career. Also included are "Yea and Nay Votes" records of his U.S. Senate voting record and nineteen (19) reels of television tapes concerning his political campaign.

Dates: 1953 - 1956

Horace Greeley letter : to Caleb Lyon, Territorial Governor of Idaho

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0548
Summary

A letter of recommendation for Hawley Clapp, landlord of Everett House, New York, New York.

Dates: 1865

Idaho Christmas card collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0961
Summary

Greeting cards from Idaho's political figures, including Orval Hansen, Del F. Engelking, Frank Church, George Hansen, Steve Symms, Cecil Andrus, and Richard Stallings.

Dates: 1969 - [ongoing]

Idaho Constitutional Convention (1889) collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0786
Summary

Correspondence concerning the surviving members of the Idaho Constitutional Convention, 1889.

Dates: 1934 - 1938

Idaho contempt case collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1165
Summary

Newspaper pullout, records and facts of the Idaho Contempt Case against Sheridan, Broxten and Cruzen.

Dates: 1913.

Idaho Daily Statesman (Firm) leaflet

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0117
Summary

Describing the election of Fred T. Dubois to the U.S. Senate.

Dates: 1892-03-03

Idaho elected officials collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2.02/16
Summary

Lists of legislative and county officials and district judges for the years 1929-1934, 1941-1942, 1945-1948.

Dates: 1929-1948.

Idaho inaugural and legislative ball collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0939
Summary

Invitations, tickets, programs, and dance programs for inaugural balls in 1905, 1907 and 1913, and legislative events in 1885 and 1893.

Dates: 1885 - 1913

Idaho political campaign fliers (1946)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1092
Summary

C.A. Robbins campaign fliers for governor, 1946.

Dates: 1946

Idaho political campaign literature

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1093
Summary

Collection contains flyers for Progressive candidates La Follette and Samuels.

Dates: 1923

Idaho political campaign material (1934)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1091
Summary

C. Ben Ross campaign fliers and cards for governor.

Dates: 1934

Isadore Samuel Weiler letter : to Prudia Clark

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0550
Summary

Thanking her for her work as a clerk.

Dates: 1877

Issac R. Crow correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0068
Summary

Letters exchanged between Governor Moses Alexander and Crow, relating to appointments of commissioners to the Clearwater County Highway District.

Dates: 1915 - 1918

J. A. Lippincott correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0770
Summary

Two letters to Lippincott, one from a local insurance agent following the loss of Lippincott's home, and the other discussing the state politics of Frank Steunenberg and Frank Hunt.

Dates: 1902

James H. Brady papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0068
Summary

Newspaper clippings, congressional records, and addresses given by James H. Brady. Also includes an autographed photo of President William Taft.

Dates: 1908 - 1919

James Henry Hawley papers (1887-1945)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0048
Summary

Correspondence relating to Hawley's law practice, including letters pertaining to the conspiracy trials of officers of the Western Federation of Miners for crimes associated with the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentrator at Wardner, Idaho, in 1899 and for the assassination of Frank Steunenberg in 1905; correspondence and reports relating to mining operations in which the Hawley family held an interest.

Dates: 1887 - 1945