Peter A. Tomei papers on the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention, 1962-1971.

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Peter A. Tomei papers on the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention, 1962-1971.

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Correspondence, research materials, meeting minutes and notes, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Peter Tomei, a Chicago delegate to the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention (also known as Con Con). Materials from the years preceding the Constitutional Convention relate to Tomei's delegate election campaign and work to promote an Illinois constitutional convention. Materials from the Constitutional Convention include the Journal of the Constitutional Convention; literature distributed to convention delegates; and correspondence, meeting minutes, worksheets, research materials, and other papers of convention committees, particularly the Committee on Suffrage and Constitution Amending, of which Tomei was chairman. Also present are materials related to the constitutional referendum, held on December 15, 1970. Six scrapbooks document the Constitutional Convention and Tomei's involvement.

1 oversize folder.

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Illinois.

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Tomei, Peter A. (Peter Andrew), 1934-1971.

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Illinois. Constitutional Convention, 1969-1970

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