Oveta Culp Hobby Papers. 1929 - 1960. Personal Files

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Oveta Culp Hobby Papers. 1929 - 1960. Personal Files

1929 - 1960

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/582312

This series documents Oveta Culp Hobby's personal affairs; her involvement in Texas Republican politics, especially the 1952 Presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower; and her government service, especially as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Hobby's personal files include correspondence, memorabilia, and a large quantity of scrapbooks containing clippings and articles. The political files consist of press releases, newsletters, speeches, clippings, editorials, correspondence, campaign booklets, tear sheets, memoranda, and a scrapbook. The HEW files include official correspondence, articles, editorials, budget estimates, legislation, newsletters, press releases, memoranda, reports on legislation, delegations of authority, message issues by the Secretary, personnel records, agenda, invitations accepted and declined, speeches, and testimony before congressional Committees. Some of the HEW areas documented are administration and appropriations, reorganization, aging, migratory labor, food and drug issues, education, vocational rehabilitation, air pollution, health and hospitals, water resources, the Salk vaccine, Social Security, and children and youth.

Approximately 148,000 pages

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995

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Oveta Culp Hobby (January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995) was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Women's Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. Hobby went to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to head the newly formed women's division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. At the request of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall she drafted plans for the formation of a women's auxiliary to the male army, ...