Joan Wagnon Papers, circa 1979 - 2001.

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Joan Wagnon Papers, circa 1979 - 2001.

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Records from the Wagnon family mostly focus on Joan's political activities as legislator and as mayor of Topeka. Topics from her time as legislator include children and youths, including education, crime, and abuse; subject files and reference material on various political issues; committees on which Ms. Wagnon served; criminal justice; taxation; women's issues and women voters and politicians; abortion; health care and aging; Washburn University; and other such topics. Also included are records from organizations and institutions with which Ms. Wagnon was affiliated, notably the Kansas Women's Political Caucus, as well as campaign records, including for her 1993-1994 campaign to run for Kansas Governor. Topics from her years as Mayor of Topeka, Kansas include city planning, neighborhood revitalization, real estate, and other housing issues and urban programs; violence, youth issues, crime, and other related concerns; budget and city finances; economic development, etc. Types of records from throughout Wagnon's career include meeting minutes, memoranda and correspondence, budgets and other financial documents, plans and studies, reports, forms and grant paperwork, planning documents, drafts of legislative bills, newspaper clippings, mailing lists and lists of contributors, fund raising records, etc.

85 cubic feet (85 boxes).

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Wagnon, Joan Davis, 1940-

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Joan Davis Wagnon (born October 17, 1940) is a retired American politician. Born in Texarkana, Texas, she graduated from Arkansas High School there before earning a degree from Hendrix College. Thereafter, she worked as a senior research assistant in the Neurology Department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Afterward, she moved to Columbia, Missouri and Topeka, Kansas, serving as executive director of the Topeka YWCA for 13 years. Wagnon was elected to the...