Republican Party of Wisconsin records, 1900-1988.

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Republican Party of Wisconsin records, 1900-1988.

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Printed constitutions, minutes of executive committee meetings, records of annual conventions, and executive directors' correspondence, mainly documenting the period 1946-1970. In addition to correspondence, lists, platforms, and resolutions, the convention records include full secretarial transcriptions of proceedings. For several conventions, speeches and remarks by John Byrnes, Thomas Coleman, Glenn Davis, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Charles Halleck, Warren Knowles, Melvin Laird, Joseph McCarthy, William Miller, Thruston Morton, Richard Nixon, Donald Nutter, Oscar Rennebohm, and Alexander Wiley are included. The executive directors' correspondence consists primarily of the correspondence of George Greeley (1960-1970), although a few scattered items pertain to other individuals who held that post. These files concern fund raising events and party finances, inaugural planning, and monitoring of Republican and Democratic politicians. Of the state chairmen of the period only Ody J. Fish is extensively represented, although there are small files for the majority of the leading Republican office holders of the era. The national convention files include recollections of delegates to the 1960 and 1964 national conventions. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1900-1974, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1935-1988 and are described below.

6.6 c.f. (4 record center cartons and 9 archives boxes); plusadditions of 23.4 c.f.,1 disc recording,13 videorecordings,163 photographs, and133 negatives.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925642

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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