Records, 1927-1945.

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Records, 1927-1945.

Collection includes correspondence, printed material, newspaper clippings, minutes, speeches, financial records and claims. Correspondents include Guy M. Gillette, D.B. Gurney, Helen Holehan, Andrew J. Johnson, Edward E. Kennedy, and Donald Van Vleet.

21 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6864237

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

National Farmers' Union (U.S.)

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Holehan, Helen.

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Van Vleet, Donald.

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Iowa Farm Tenancy Committee.

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Johnson, Andrew Jackson, 1841-1916

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Gillette, Guy M. (Guy Mark), 1879-1973

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Guy Mark Gillette was born in Cherokee, Iowa, February 3, 1879. After attending public schools, Gillette served as a sergeant in the Fifty-second Iowa Regiment of the US Army during the Spanish-American War, from May 25 until October 30, 1898. He returned to school and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines in 1900. After being admitted to the bar, he established practice in Cherokee. Gillette was City Attorney of Cherokee in 1906 and 1907, prosecuting attorney of Cherokee County from 190...

Kennedy, Edward E.

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Judge, economist, statistician, and union official; b. Edward Eugene Kennedy, 1894. From the description of Papers, 1921-1983. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28410867 Edward E. Kennedy was an active figure in agricultural legislation in the 1920s-1940s. He began working as secretary for the Illinois Farmers Union and the National Farmers Union and eventually became their legislative representative in Washington, D.C. There he worked with the National Far...

Iowa Farmers Union

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The Iowa Farmers Union is a division of the National Farmers Union, established in 1902 and more formally known as the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America. The Iowa group was reorganized and rechartered in 1957. Consequently, most of the files of the IFU date from this time. The IFU is organized into community and county units in over 30 Iowa counties. Members participate in trips to Washington, D.C. to lobby for their interests. The IFU has served as host for foreign farm leade...

Gurney, D. B.

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National Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association.

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The Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association was organized in Des Moines in March, 1936 for the "specific purpose ... to recover money illegally taxed upon our products by a law declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the U.S.A." It became a national organization a year later. Mr. Edward Kennedy was NFPTRA's Washington Representative. His main duty was to lobby Congressmen and Senators to get legislation passed for the refund of the Hog Process Tax declared illegal by the Supreme Court...