Virginia Whitten, a retired librarian, was the official archivist for Governor Ann Richards' inauguration and was the first archivist ever to be appointed by the Texas Inaugural Committee, a committee which was created by state statute in the early 1970s to plan and fund inaugural events. Whitten collected and categorized records, artifacts, and memorabilia associated with the Richards-Bullock inauguration and as a member of the 1991 Texas Inaugural Committee transferred the records to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) in August of 1991. After Virginia's death in May of 1997, her daughter, Lynn Whitten, donated this material to the State Archives.
From the guide to the Virginia Whitten papers, 1973-1994, (Texas State Archives)
