John D. Whisman Papers, 1936-1995.

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John D. Whisman Papers, 1936-1995.

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These are the papers of regional development planner John D. Whisman. The collection documents his involvement in the Lexington, Kentucky and United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission, the Kentucky Area Program Office, and the Presidents Appalachian Regional Commission. The collection also covers his later role as a consultant to other development and planning commissions in Kentucky and Maryland. The materials contain office records, memoranda, meeting minutes and agendas, publications, correspondence, speeches, bills, newsletters, reports, photographs, clippings, and news releases relating to each of the organizations with which Whisman was involved. Also included are the personal papers of Whisman and his second wife, Anne.

375 cubic ft.

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League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission.

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United States Junior Chamber of Commerce

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Whisman, John D., 1921-1995.

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John D. Whisman was a founder of the Appalachian Regional Commission. He, along with Kentucky Governor Bert T. Combs, Maryland Governor J. Millard Tawes, and a few others were instrumental in establishing the federal-state agency in 1965. Whisman was born in Indiana in 1921, but was reared in eastern Kentucky, the homeland of his parents. He attended the local schools in Indiana and Kentucky, graduating from Powell County (Kentucky) High School in 1940. He attended college, then served in the Ar...

Whisman, Anne.

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Lexington Junior Chamber of Commerce.

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Appalachian Regional Commission

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Sources: Alabama Appalachian Regional Commission Program, Meeting agenda and minutes, SG14584, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a regional economic development agency that represents a partnership of federal, state and local government. Established in 1965, it is composed of the governors of the 13 Appalachian states and a federal co-chairman who is appointed by the President. Local participation in the Commi...