Papers, 1924-1956.

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Papers, 1924-1956.

Includes assorted items, campaign material, congratulatory messages, miscellaneous material, newsclippings, school memorabilia, speech material, photographs, and "White House" correspondence. Collection bulks with campaign material (1950-1952) and speech material (1948-1952). Of special interest is the White House correspondence which includes letters and telegrams from various governmental and political figures such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon.

2,946 leaves.

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Frieberger, Curt.

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Thornton, Dan, 1911-1976

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Daniel Thornton was born and raised in Tex. in 1911. He attended Texas Technological University for two years and earned his degree at UCLA. Thornton began ranching in 1937 in Springerville, Ariz. He later established the White Mountain Hereford Ranch in the early 1940s when he and his wife, Jessie Willock, moved to Gunnison, Colo. Here they established the Thornton Ranch where he developed the Triumphant Type Hereford. Thornton sold two of his bulls for a record $50,000 each in the 1945 Nationa...

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Shivers, Allan, 1907-1985

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