Papers, 1971-1979.

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Papers, 1971-1979.

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Collection contains newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, notes, drafts, cartoons, notecards, research, references, correspondence, and interview notes. Topics include Governor Jim Thompson's gubernatorial career and related issues. Also contains information on Charles Percy's senatorial career and issues.

2.55 linear ft. (3 boxes)

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Percy, Charles H., 1919-2011

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Harting Percy : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147380 Epithet: US senator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000067 ...

Thompson, James Robert, 1936-2020

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James R. Thompson, Illinois’ 39th governor, held the record for being Illinois’ governor with the longest term in office. Thompson, a Republican, was elected for a two year term in 1976, and reelected for 3 four year terms. After 14 years in office, Thompson did not run for another four year term in 1990. Thompson was born in Chicago on May 8, 1936. From 1959 to 1964 Thompson was a prosecutor for the Cook County States Attorney’s Office. In 1969 he was appointed Chief of the Department of Law En...

United States. Congress. Senate

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Hartley, Robert E.

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Author, editor, columnist, biographer. Born in Winfield, Kansas, on August 30, 1936. Received BS from University of Kansas (1958). Wrote biographies Charles H. Percy: A Political Perspective (1975) and Big Jim Thompson of Illinois (1979), for which he won the Award of Merit from the Illinois State Historical Society (1980). Contributed to Illinois: Political Processes and Government Performance (1980). Editor for Herald and Review in Decatur, Illinois (1967-1968) and for...