Hugh Burnton Mitchell papers 1940-1967 (bulk 1940-1953).

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Hugh Burnton Mitchell papers 1940-1967 (bulk 1940-1953).

Legislative files, correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, case files, resolutions, statements, an audiotaped interview, news releases, ephemera, newsletters, campaign files, clippings, and photographs relating to Mitchell's political career 1937-1958; also includes records of the League for Columbia Valley Authority 1945-1946. Major correspondents include Monrad C. Wallgren, Warren G. Magnuson, Kaiser (Henry J.) Company, John Main Coffee, Hugh DeLacy, Henry M. Jackson, Herbert Peet, and Charles Savage.

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University of Washington. Libraries

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League for Columbia Valley Authority.

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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 ...

Savage, Charles C.

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Charles Savage worked at the Stanford Memorial Church. From the description of Charles Savage photograph album, circa 1905-circa 1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 704537575 ...

Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989

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Warren Grant Magnuson (b. April 12, 1905, Moorhead, Minn.-d. May 20, 1989, Seattle, Wash.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the State of Washington, graduated from the University of Washington law school in 1929 and served in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944 to 1981, se...

Henry J. Kaiser Company

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Coffee, John Main, 1897-

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Tacoma resident John Main Coffee (1897-1983) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Washington State, 1937-1946. From the description of John Coffee Papers, 1940-1952. (University of Puget Sound Library). WorldCat record id: 746570236 John Main Coffee (January 23, 1897-June 2, 1983) was a U.S. Representative from Washington State, 6th District, 1937-1946. Born in Tacoma, Washington, Coffee attended public schools. He attended Universit...

Peet, Herbert M.

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Boeing Aircraft Company

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Mitchell, Hugh B. (Hugh Burnton), 1907-1996

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Senator and Representative of Washington state, business executive. Born 1907, died 1996. Hugh Mitchell's congressional career began in 1933 when he became executive assistant to Senator Monrad C. Wallgren, for whom he worked until 1944 when Wallgren became governor of Washington state. When Wallgren resigned from the Senate in 1945, Mitchell was appointed his successor. In the Senate (and later when he served in the House) Mitchell was involved in the movement for publi...

Langlie, Arthur B. (Arthur Bernard), 1900-1966

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Lawyer, Republican politician, and business executive of Seattle who served one term as mayor of Seattle and three as governor of Washington. Arthur Langlie served as mayor of Seattle from 1938 to 1940, and led the effort to rehabilitate Seattle after the Great Depression. He was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1940, and won, thanks largely to a deeply divided Democratic party. During his time as governor, he was involved in the proposed Columbia Valley Administr...

DeLacy, Hugh, 1910-1986

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Born and raised in Seattle, Hugh DeLacy taught English from 1933 to 1937 at the University of Washington, where he helped to organize a teachers' union. He then served on the Seattle City Council for several years and became active in the Democratic Party. During World War II, DeLacy worked as a machinist in the shipyards, and in 1944 he won the First District Congressional seat that had been vacated by Warren Magnuson. Accused of being anti-American in his 1946 bid for re-election, DeLacy was d...

Columbia Valley Public Power Corporation

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Wallgren, Monrad C. (Monrad Charles), 1891-1961

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Governor of Washington, government official, and friend of Harry S. Truman. From the description of Papers, 1929-1959 [microform]. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70958968 ...

Mitchell (Hugh B.) Inc., Northwest Development Council.

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