Records, 1878-2000.

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Records, 1878-2000.

Records of an organization founded as the Wisconsin Bar Association which in 1957 became the integrated bar for Wisconsin to which all lawyers were required to belong. The records include convention proceedings (1933-1947), the Board of Governors minutes (1939-1948), correspondence of the president's office (1933-1945), and records of the secretary-treasurer (1913-1948). The records document the lobbying efforts by the association to establish an integrated bar, activities of the American Bar Association and Wisconsin county associations, membership campaigns, and financial activities of the organization.

13.2 c.f. (33 archives boxes); plusadditions of 10.3 c.f. and3 tape recordings.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED In 1971 the American Bar Association formed a committee to prepare a study "...on the respective powers under the Constitution of the President and of the Congress to enter into and conduct war." The committee was chaired by Lyman M. Tondel, Jr. and the project was funded by the Association's Fund for Public Education which in turn contracted with Columbia University to carry out the study. The staff included Abraham D. Sofaer, Project Director and Adjunct Professor of Law at C...

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