Governor Thomas H. Kean Collection

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Governor Thomas H. Kean Collection

https://depts.drew.edu/lib/findingaids/Kean.php

The Governor Thomas H. Kean collection broadly consists of the records created during the governor's two terms of office in New Jersey, from 1982-1990. Included are the full run of his legislative briefing binders, records from trips and conferences, typescript copies of speeches, photographs, correspondence, office files, material on the issue of education, press releases and newsclips, and related records. A small percentage of the records were created in the 1990s during Kean's presidency of Drew University.

125 boxes.

eng, Latn

Drew University Library, Rose Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7919418

Drew University Library, Rose Memorial Library

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Kean, Thomas H., 1935-

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Thomas H. Kean was born on April 21, 1935. Kean received his B.A. degree from Princeton University and his M.A. from Columbia University Teachers College. He taught private school in Massachusetts before entering politics. Kean was a member of the New Jersey Assembly from 1968-1977. He was elected governor of New Jersey in 1982. As Governor, Kean was rated among America's five most effective state leaders by Newsweek magazine; noted for tax cuts that spurred 750,000 new jobs; a federally repl...