Reminiscences of Frank Thompson, Jr. : oral history, 1967.

Thompson, Frank, 1918-1989

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In 1955, Thompson was elected congressman from the Fourth Congressional District of New Jersey, which encompasses Mercer and Burlington Counties. He was assigned to the Education, Labor, and Administration committees (he was chairman of the Administration committee), and the papers reflect his special interests in federal aid to education and the arts, the creation of cultural centers, such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the protection of historic buildings. ...

Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Burns, Joan Simpson

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Author and editor Joan Simpson Burns worked at Partisan Review, Readers' Subscription Book Club, CBS/Columbia Records and Harcourt Brace in New York City. She is the author of The Awkward Embrace: The Creative Artist and the Institution in America (1975) and editor of The Dechronization of Sam Magruder, a novel by her father George Gaylord Simpson (1996). She has lived in Williamstown, Mass., since 1969 when she married historian James MacGregor Burns; both had children from previous marriages. ...