Records of Committee on Legislative Organization, 1961-1962.

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Records of Committee on Legislative Organization, 1961-1962.

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Series 17 of record group RG 62-24 consists of records of the Committee on Legislative Organization of the 1961-1962 Michigan Constitutional Convention. Includes: action journals (Oct. 18, 1961-Jan. 31, 1962); roll calls; correspondence, including that of Melvin Nord; work papers; reports of Committee recommendations; research and information materials presented to the Committee; and amendments proposed by the Committee for proposals 79 and 80. Includes research studies and summaries relating to apportionment and population; report of the Committee to the Convention (Dec. 14, 1961); copy of testimony recorded at hearings 1-5; text comparison of 1908 Constitution and proposed; speeches by Dr. James K. Pollock; and brief of case of Charles W. Baker, et al. appellants v. Joe C. Carr, et al., March 26, 1962, appealed to Supreme Court from District Court of Tennessee.

3 mss. boxes (1.5 cu. ft.)

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Pollock, James K. (James Kerr), 1898-1968

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Professor of political science at University of Michigan, special adviser to U.S. Military Government in Germany, 1945-1848, special adviser to U.S. High Commissioner in Germany in 1950, member of Hoover Commission on the Re-Organization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, 1947-1949, and participant in the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1961-1962. From the description of James Kerr Pollock papers, 1920-1968. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80055237...

Nord, Melvin, 1918-....

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Carr, Joe C.

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Baker, Charles Whiting, 1865-1941

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Charles W. Baker was born May 14, 1838, in Illinois, the first of eleven children of James Alexander and Catherine (Fleming) Baker. As a young man he taught school. Then in 1864 he caught gold fever and headed west. He travelled by wagon via the Bridger Cutoff trail. and arrived in Virginia City, Montana Territory, on July 28, 1864. He remained there until April 15, 1867, when he headed for the Salmon River in Idaho. He briefly returned to Virginia City that August and then in Septe...