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Livingston Anti-Merger Committee. Livingston Anti-Merger Committee records, 1894-1980.

Title: Livingston Anti-Merger Committee records, 1894-1980.

Series 1 consists of organizational documents including: minutes; financial records; handwritten and typed research notes; rough drafts of position papers, briefs, statements; and research materials to support the committee's arguments. Correspondents include Warren McGee, Bernice McGee, and Wilbur S. (Webb) Sullivan; individual and organized antimerger supporters including the Northern Pacific Stockholders' Protection Committee; the Montana Congressional delegation (at the time: Senator Mike Mansfield, Senator Lee Metcalf, Representative Arnold Olsen and Representative James Battin) and other national leaders; Montana legislators (including John Melcher); Montana agencies, in particular the Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners and their counsel, John C. Sheehy; railroad officials and railroad union members; Federal agencies including the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission; Valentine B. Deale, attorney for the Committee before the Federal courts; Burton K. Wheeler; and assorted national and local publications. Newspaper clippings and periodical articles trace the activities of the Committee, other opponents and supporters, and the railroad industry. Collected articles, newspaper clippings, reports and studies corroborating or disproving the arguments for consolidation of the railroads; materials on the Northern Pacific Stockholders and the Russell E. Skeen proxy fight; and ancillary materials. Series 2 consists of copies of testimony, briefs, exhibits, cross-examinations and other papers filed by the litigants with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and the ICC Examiner (most relate to Montana hearings and hearings in which the Livingston Anti-Merger Committee had a active roll); and briefs, motions, and other legal papers before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The U.S. Supreme Court opinion rendered in 1970 completes the collection.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 linear ft.

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Sheehy, John C. John C. (Skeff) Sheehy Interview, 2000.

Title: John C. (Skeff) Sheehy Interview, 2000.

In this interview John "Skeff" Sheehy (b. 1918) discusses growing up in Butte during the 1920s and 1930s; his Irish-American heritage; Depression era in Butte; attending the University of Montana (Missoula) and the Montana School of Mines (Butte); attending law school in Missoula; his work for Jardine, Chase and Stephenson law firm; his thoughts on diploma priviledge for Montana graduates applying for law school (past policy no longer used to determine admittance to law school); work as chief deputy insurance commissioner; establishing Schiltz and Sheehy in Billings (later Wiggenhorn, Hutton, Schiltz and Sheehy); his service in the Montana State Legislature; fraud in Worker's Compensation in the early 1970s; running for the Montana Supreme Court; political affiliation and the Court; changes in the state's high court over his tenure; and his retirement. [Also includes two reminiscences written by Sheehy entitled "A Seven-Year Old Looks at Butte in 1925" and "Harrison J. Freebourn, 1890-1954"] (OH 1882)

ArchivalResource: 2 Cassette tape(s)(1 hour, 45 minutes) Analog Transcript 44 p

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Livingston Anti-Merger Committee Records, 1894-1980

Title: Livingston Anti-Merger Committee Records 1894-1980

The Livingston Anti-Merger Committee Records consists of organizational documents including: minutes; financial records; handwritten and typed research notes; rough drafts of position papers, briefs, statements; and research materials to support the committee's arguments. Also included are copies of testimony, briefs, exhibits, cross-examinations and other papers filed by the litigants with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), the ICC Examiner, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Newspaper clippings and periodical articles trace the activities of the Committee, other opponents and supporters, and the railroad industry.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 linear feet

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Sheehy, John C. John C. Sheehy Interview February 23, 2008.

Title: John C. Sheehy Interview February 23, 2008.

John C. Sheehy Interview conducted February 23, 2008 in Helena, Mont. In this interview Mr. Sheehy discusses his legal career, attending college, studying law, working for the Jardean Law firm in Great Falls, practicing law in Billings, formation of Hutton, Sheehy and Cromley partnership, appointment to the Montana Supreme Courty 1978-1991, and writing his opinions and dissents. (OH 2262).

ArchivalResource: Summary One page.

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