Sierra Club National Legislative Office Records, 1960-[on-going]
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Gilman, Benjamin A. (Benjamin Arthur), 1922-2016
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Sierra Club. National Legislative Office.
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Administrative History Although John Muir and Century Magazine editor Robert Underwood Johnson may be considered the Sierra Club's first lobbyists for their spirited battle against damming the Tuolumne River in Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, in the early twentieth century, the National Legislative Office traces its permanent beginnings to 1962. In that year, Executive Director David Brower urged the Sierra Club's Board of Directors to hire ...
