Clifford R. Hope, Jr. papers, circa 1963-2008.

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Clifford R. Hope, Jr. papers, circa 1963-2008.

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This collection documents Clifford Hope, Jr.'s activities as a county commissioner, lawyer, and citizen of Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. The records primarily include correspondence, subject files, clippings, and interview transcripts dating between 1963-2008. The majority of the collection consists of subject files documenting Hope's service as a Finney County commissioner, organized alphabetically by topic. The subject files include correspondence, budgets, legal documents, minutes, clippings, and memoranda. Topics include the Alcohol Fund Advisory Committee, Kansas Association of Counties, Antelope Hills subdivision, county appraisers and tax evaluation, county attorney office files and opinions, Board of Equalization appeals, Garden City highway bypass, Fair Board, law enforcement center, sheriff's department, Salvation Army, Kansas Legislative Policy Group, Advisory Committee on Foreign Aid, city and county sales tax, sanitation issues, Southwind Oil and Gas Resolution, roads and bridges, Finney County budget files, the public library, waste water management, and county commissioner minutes. These records date primarily in the 1980s. Other subject files are related to Hope's involvement with the Citizens Committee on Constitutional Revision, dated 1963-1975. Included are interview transcripts for a 2006 interview regarding Truman Capote, and a 2008 interview regarding the Big Gamble of 1958. Also included is a draft of a publication entitled Growing up in the Army, dated 1985.

12.5 cubic feet (13 boxes).

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7995889

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Salvation Army

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army</a>. From the guide to the Salvation Army Combined Corps Roll and Ledger, 1926-1980, 1928-1969, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Kansas Association of Counties

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The Kansas Association of Counties is a quasi-public agency, which seeks to advance the public interest by promoting effective, responsive county government in Kansas. Founded in 1975 as an instrumentality of its member counties, the Association serves county governments through legislative representation, technical assistance, leadership, and professional education. The Association's mission is grounded in state law and shaped by the leadership of its thirteen member Governing Board. [Kansas As...

United States. Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid

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Kansas. Citizens' Committee on Constitutional Revision.

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Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American author. From the guide to the Truman Capote ephemera Collection, 1949-1988., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Truman Capote (1924- ), American author. From the description of Truman Capote papers, 1939-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476609 Truman Capote is an American writer. From the description of Truman Capote fonds. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667848368...

Hope, Cliff.

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Clifford Hope, Jr. was the son of Clifford R. Hope, a Republican representative from the state of Kansas. Hope, Jr. briefly served on the staff of US senator James B. Pearson before returning to Finney County to practice law in 1963. He was a prominent Finney County attorney, state legislator, county commissioner, and involved in a variety of social organizations. From the description of Clifford R. Hope, Jr. papers, circa 1963-2008. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record...