Allan H. Spear legislative records. 1972-2000.

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Allan H. Spear legislative records. 1972-2000.

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Includes appointment books, bill files, correspondence, and audio and video recordings pertaining to bills introduced by Spear when he was a member of the Minnesota Senate (1973-2000) and heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee when he was President from 1982-1992.

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Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

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Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was officially formed on April 15, 1944, the result of a merger of the existing Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. Although the two entities had competed vigorously throughout their pasts, they had been brought into closer harmony through their mutual support of New Deal programs, through Popular Front collaborations during World War II, and through a realistic acceptance of the fact that they were effectively splitting the s...

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Spear, Allan H.

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Allan H. Spear was born Michigan City, Indiana in 1937. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1958 and earned an M.A.(1960) and a PhD from Yale University (1965). In 1965, Spear was hired in the History Department at the University of Minnesota to teach American and African American History. He continued to teach at the University while serving in the Minnesota Legislature. Spear was elected to the Minnesota State Senate on the DFL ticket in 1972. He served in districts t...