Papers 1929-1970

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987

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Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician from the Republican Party. He served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was the Republican Party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt who won the electoral college vote 523 to 8. Born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, Landon spent most of his childhood in Marietta, Ohio before moving to Kansa...

Mitchell, James P.

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Schoeppel, Andrew Frank, 1894-1962

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Andrew Frank Schoeppel (b. Nov. 23, 1894, Barton County, Kan.-d. Jan. 21, 1962, Bethesda, Md.), U.S. Senator from Kansas, left university to enlist in the Naval Air Service during World War I, then graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1922. He held a number of local and state-wide political posts, including Governor of Kansas from 1943 to 1947. He was elected as a Republican to the Senate in 1948 and served from 1949 until his death in 1962. From the description of...

Manka, James Ashford, 1911-1970

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Manka was born in Piedmont, Kansas, attended Wichita Public Schools, Wichita University, and received his law degree from Washburn University in 1936. He began practicing law in Wichita, and in 1940 joined the firm of Adams, Jones, Robinson and Manka. He was local and national president of the Metro Club, and served as president of the Wichita University Alumni Association. He chaired the Sedgwick County Republican Central Committee in the 1950's, and was a candidate for the Republi...

Hall, Frederick L., 1916

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Reed, Clyde Martin, 1871-1949

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Clyde Martin Reed was born 9 October 1871 in Champaign County, Illinois, the son of Martin Van Buren and Mary Adelaid Reed. His family moved to Labette County, Kansas in 1875, where Reed received his education, including a teacher's certificate. In 1891 he married Minnie E. Hart and they had seven children who survived to adulthood. Reed worked for the government much of his life, when not running the Parsons Sun newspaper. He worked in the post office for many years, was secretary to Governor H...

Carlson, Frank, 1893-

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Scranton, William Wallace, 1913-

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Pearson, James B. (James Blackwood), 1920-

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James Blackwood Pearson was born May 7, 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee. His father, a Methodist minister, later relocated his family to Virginia. It was during World War II that Pearson had his first close look at Kansas. As a navy pilot he served at the Olathe Naval Air Station, flying planes for the Naval Air Transport Service from 1943 to 1946. He left the service with the rank of Lieutenant. Pearson had attended Duke University and returned to the East to earn his law degree from the Universit...

Association for Republican Moderates.

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Wichita Council for Civic Responsibility.

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Civil Liberties Union.

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