Records of the administration of Walter J. Kohler Jr., three-term governor of Wisconsin from 1951 to 1957, including speeches and veto messages, press releases and biographical scrapbooks, legislative files, and extensive correspondence and memoranda exchanged with state and federal departments, organizations, and private citizens on a wide range of topics. Well represented agencies include the University of Wisconsin, the Aeronautics, Conservation, Highway, and Public Service commissions; the Agriculture, Motor Vehicle, Veterans, and Public Welfare departments; and the governor's Committee on the Employment of the Physically Handicapped. Topics within the agency files that are extensively covered include appointments, cheese and dairy products, civil defense, deer hunting, education, floods, highway safety, the Kohler Company strike, law enforcement, legislation, labor relations, old age assistance, public transportation, radio and television, rent control, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Selective Service, and taxes.
