Papers, 1950-1991.

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Papers, 1950-1991.

Correspondence, case files, speeches, writings, notes, scrapbooks, guestbooks, notebooks, and other papers, relating to Weltner's career as a lawyer, U.S. representative, and Georgia superior and supreme court justice. Includes files kept while writing his thesis at University of Dublin and material relating to Georgia politics, civil rights, Democratic Party, Ku Klux Klan, and Vietnamese Conflict. Persons represented include John Willie Reed and Esequiel Torres.

30 cubic ft.

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