Papers, 1868-2000 [1940-1965].

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Papers, 1868-2000 [1940-1965].

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Correspondence, reports, schedules, memos, minutes, campaign materials, speeches, press releases, clippings and programs document career as a congressman, state treasurer, governor, WWII veteran, and campaigns for secretary of state. Glen Palmer and Rupert Bippus are major correspondents. Issues documented include reapportionment, displaced persons, Illinois politics and campaigns, Executive Mansion refurbishing, the Orville Hodge case, highway construction, toll highways, Interstate Oil Compact Commission and education.

169.5 linear feet 150 boxes + 53 oversize bound volumes and 21 oversize manuscripts.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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National Governors' Conference

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Palmer, Glen.

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Midwest Governors' Conference.

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Illinois. Office of the State Treasurer

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The Illinois Treasurer's office was established in 1812, and when Illinois became a state, the 1818 Constitution required the General Assembly to appoint a new Treasurer biennially. With the adoption of the 1848 Constitution, the Treasurer became an elective office. The Treasurer still served a two year term and the 1870 Constitution prohibited the incubement from suceeding himself. A 1959 constitutional amendment increased the term to four years and with the ratification of the 197...

Downey, William Kevin

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Kanady, Johnson

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Stratton, William G.

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Illinois governor, 1953-1961; state treasurer, 1943-1945, 1951-1953; Illinois Congressman at large, 1941-1943, 1947-1949. As governor he dealt with reapportionment, highway building and maintenance, education, establishing the Department of Personnel, Governors Conferences and Executive Mansion renovation. As treasurer he modernized the office to promote efficiency. As congressman he served on the Banking and Currency Committee and sponsored legislation allowing displaced persons from Europe to ...

Hodge, Orville

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Illinois. Office of the Governor

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The Board of Fund Commissioners was created by l. 1837, p. 121. Board contracted for and negotiated all loans authorized by General Assembly for internal improvements and signed and executed all bonds or stock certificates issued for such loans. Monies received from proceeds of loans were deposited at State Bank of Illinois and Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown. These deposits were used to pay drafts issued on Fund Commissioners by Board of Commissioners of Public Works for expenditur...

Bippus, Rupert.

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Pree, Edward, 1919-

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Interstate Oil Compact Commission

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Illinois. Governor (1953-1961 : Stratton)

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William G. Stratton (1914- ), Republican Governor of Illinois (1953-1961), was born on Feb. 26, 1914 at Ingleside, Ill. Stratton, who attended school only five years before high school, graduated from the University of Arizona (1934); married Marion Hook and took a job with Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. Stratton won the Congressman-at-Large seat (1940), and became the youngest member of the House (1941-1943). Returning to state government, Stratton was elected State Treasurer (194...