Papers, 1933-1985.

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Papers, 1933-1985.

Correspondence, campaign material, newsletters, notes, and taped interview with DeLacy, relating to his activities as English instructor and union activist (1933-1937), Seattle City councilman (1938-1940), machinist (1942-1944), congressman (1945-1947), organizer for Progressive Party and Ohio State director for the Progressive Party; together with two autobiographies describing his early life and experiences as a congressman, and writings and class notes resulting from his study of philosophy as a graduate student at San Fernando Valley State College in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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San Fernando Valley State College

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DeLacy, Hugh, 1910-1986

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Born and raised in Seattle, Hugh DeLacy taught English from 1933 to 1937 at the University of Washington, where he helped to organize a teachers' union. He then served on the Seattle City Council for several years and became active in the Democratic Party. During World War II, DeLacy worked as a machinist in the shipyards, and in 1944 he won the First District Congressional seat that had been vacated by Warren Magnuson. Accused of being anti-American in his 1946 bid for re-election, DeLacy was d...

Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)

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Curtis MacDougall was born on February 11, 1903, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He started his career as a journalist there at the Fond du Lac Commonwealth-Reporter at the age of fifteen. He received a BA in English from Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1923. He went on to obtain a Master's from Northwestern University in 1926 and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in 1933. After working at several newspapers, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1935. During the depress...