Records, 1960-1978.

Podell, Bertram L. (Bertram Lawrence), 1925-2005

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Bertram Lawrence "Bert" Podell (December 27, 1925 – August 17, 2005) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served as the U.S. Representative from New York's 13th congressional district from 1968 to 1975. Born in Brooklyn, he attended Yeshiva of Flatbush and Abraham Lincoln High School before joining the United States Navy during World War II, serving from 1944 to 1946. Podell graduated from St. John's University and Brooklyn Law School, passed the...

Ottinger, Richard L. (Richard Lawrence), 1929-

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Richard Lawrence Ottinger (born January 27, 1929) is an American lawyer, legal educator, and politician. A Democrat, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 25th (1965-1971), 24th (1975-1983), and 20th (1983-1985) congressional districts. Born in New York City, he attended the public schools of Scarsdale, New York before graduating from the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut and earning a B.A. from Cornell University and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He was admit...

Rosenthal, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Stanley), 1923-1983

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Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (June 8, 1923 – January 4, 1983) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served as the U.S. Representative from New York's 6th (1962-1963), 8th (1963-1983) and 7th (1983) congressional districts. Born in New York City, he attended the public schools there before going on to Long Island University and City College of New York. Rosenthal served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946 and thereafter earned an LL.B. from B...

Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986

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Jacob Koppel Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Javits served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York's 21st congressional district from 1947 to 1954, as the 58th Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1957 until 1981. After graduating from New York University School of Law, he established a law practice in New York City. During World War II, he serv...

Badillo, Herman, 1929-2014

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Herman Badillo (August 21, 1929 – December 3, 2014) was a trailblazing Puerto Rican politician. Initially a member of the Democratic Party, he served as borough president of The Bronx and U.S. Representative from New York's 21st and 22nd congressional districts. Badillo was the first Puerto Rican elected to these posts. An unsuccessful five-time candidate for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City, he was the first Puerto Rican mayoral candidate in a major city in the continental U...

Brasco, Frank J. (Frank James), 1932-1998

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Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005

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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) activist, educator, politician and author was born in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of four girls. She lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn with her factory worker father, Charles (originally from British Guyana) and her seamstress and domestic worker mom, Ruby Seale (who came from Barbados). Between 1927 and 1934, Chisholm was sent to live with her grandmother, Emaline Seale, in Christ Church, Barbados. Chisholm attended local school, ...

Hughes, Harold E. (Harold Everett), 1922-1996

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Governor of Iowa (1963-1968); U.S. Senator from Iowa (1969-1975). From the description of Papers of Harold E. Hughes, 1962-1975. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233106273 ...

Bayh, Birch, 1928-....

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The Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of 1980, introduced as the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act and commonly known as the Bayh-Dole Act, were enacted on December 12, 1980 (P.L. 96-517). The Bayh Dole Act established procedures through which universities, small businesses, and non-profit corporations could control intellectual property resulting from federally funded research. Co-sponsored by Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana and Robert Dole of Kansas, it was the culmination o...

Conyers, John, Jr., 1929-2019

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John James Conyers Jr. (May 16, 1929 – October 27, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. Representative for Michigan from 1965 to 2017. The districts he represented always included part of western Detroit. During his final three terms, his district included many of Detroit's western suburbs, as well as a large portion of the Downriver area. Conyers served more than fifty years in Congress, becoming the sixth-longest serving member of Congress in U.S. hi...

Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983

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Jackson's tenure in the House was briefly interrupted by service in the U.S. Army. He enlisted in 1943, but was recalled by President Roosevelt to congressional service after basic training. Jackson was assigned to the Government Operations Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a position which quickly put him at the center of the un-American activities controversies and in the national spotlight. He won recognition ...

Bingham, Jonathan B.

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Congressman. From the description of Reminiscences of Jonathan B. Bingham : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527307 ...

Gravel, Mike, 1930-.....

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Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel served two terms, from 1969 to 1980, as a United States Senator from Alaska. A native of Massachusetts, he came to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1956, entered the real estate business, and in 1962 was first elected to the Alaska State House of Representatives from District 8, Spenard (Anchorage). From the description of Mike Gravel Papers, 1957-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 314196813 ...

Fagan, Allan

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Ginsberg, Robert M.

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Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998

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Bella Savitzky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She was known as a leading figure in what came to be known as eco-feminism. In 1970, Abzug's first campaign slogan was, "This woman's place is in the House—the H...

Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

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Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....

Beame, Abraham D. (Abraham David), 1906-2001

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The Battle of Long Island (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn) occurred on August 27, 1776 in what is now the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. The battle was the largest of the American Revolutionary War. It resulted in a victory for the British army and the retreat of the Continental Army through Manhattan and New Jersey into Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Battle of Long Island 200th anniversary proclamations, 1976, (Brooklyn Historical Society) ...

Hartke, Vance

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Hartke served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1958 through 1976. An advocate of the New Frontier, Hartke saw the Vietnam War drawing resources away from social programs and opposed the war. From the description of Papers, 1966-1968. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 27983010 Rupert Vance Hartke (b. May 31, 1919, Stendal, Pike County, Indiana-d. July 27, 2003, Falls Church, Virginia) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until...

Eve, Arthur O. (Arthur Owen), 1933-

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Biaggi, Mario

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Brydges, Earl William, 1905-1975

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New York state senator. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1972. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63584820 ...

Gottfried, Richard N.

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Legislator. From the description of Reminiscences of Richard N. Gottfried : oral history, 2002. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269259656 ...

Berle, Peter A. A. (Peter Adolf Augustus), 1937-2007

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Buckley, James Lane, 1923-....

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Civil War private, 53rd Illinois Infantry, Company K, from Ottawa, Illinois. From the description of Diary, 1864 July 11-August 7. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27819358 Buckley was a N.Y. Senator and member of the Senate Committee on Public Works in 1973. From the description of TLsS, 1973-1976 : Washington, D.C. to Schuyler Tallman. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 46956670 United States Senato...

Goldin, Harrison J.

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Clark, Ramsey, 1927-....

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William Ramsey Clark (b. 1927) was Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice from 1961 to 1965, Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967, and Attorney General from 1967 to 1969. After leaving the Federal government, he was a professor of law at Howard University and Brooklyn Law School. From the description of Clark, Ramsey, 1927- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10580333 ...

Edwards, Don, 1915-

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Don Edwards was born and raised in San Jose, California. Edwards graduated from San Jose High School, and in 1936 he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, an L. L. B from Stanford University Law School in 1938, and in 1940 he was admitted to the California State Bar. Between 1940-1941, Edwards worked for the FBI and during World War II he served as a Naval Intelligence officer and gunnery officer at sea. After the war, he founded the Valley Title Company of Sant...

Addabbo, Joseph Patrick, 1925-1986

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Gottlieb, Stephen E.

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Halperin, Donald

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Case, Clifford P. (Clifford Philip), 1904-1982

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Clifford Philip Case : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619730 Lawyer, state legislator, and U.S. representative and senator, from New Jersey. From the description of Papers, 1925-1982 ; (bulk 1945-1978). (Rutgers University). WorldCat record id: 28376038 ...

New Democratic Coalition of New York

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Organized 1959 as New York Committee for Democratic Voters; affiliated in 1969 with New Democratic Coalition (formerly Coalition for a Democratic Alternative). From the description of Records, 1960-1978. (Rutgers University). WorldCat record id: 28415423 Organized in 1959 as New York Committee for Democratic Voters; affiliated with New Democratic Coalition in 1969. Name used (in later years only?): New York State New Democratic Coalition. From the description of ...

Holtzman, Elizabeth, 1941-

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Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, she represented New York's 16th congressional district for four terms from 1973 to 1981. After leaving Congress, she became the first woman to serve as District Attorney of Kings County (1982-1989) and the first woman to hold the office of New York City Comptroller (1990-1993). A native of Brookly, New York, she graduated from Abrah...

Garcia, Robert, 1933-2017

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Robert Garcia (January 9, 1933 – January 25, 2017) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably represented New York's 21st and 18th congressional districts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1978 to 1990. Born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, Garcia attended the New York City public schools and graduated from Haaren High School in Manhattan in 1950. He served in the United States Army from 1950–53 during the Korean War as a radio operator with the Thir...

Cooke, Lawrence S.

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Clark, Dick, 1928-

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Dick Clark : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309729187 ...