Sidney R. Yates papers, ca. 1948-1998.

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Sidney R. Yates papers, ca. 1948-1998.

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Office files of U.S. Congressman Sidney R. Yates (Democrat, Chicago), including correspondence, surveys, bills, speeches, constituent questionnaires, mass mailings, newsletters, press releases, guest books, news clippings, nominations to military academies, personal voting record, and committee files. The collection includes legislative files, 1949-1998; general correspondence, 1955-1999; speeches, 1949-1998; constituent questionnaires and mass mailings, 1987-1997; newsletters, 1949-1998; invitations, 1997-1998; press releases, 1965-1970; Yates's remarks in the "Congressional Record", 1967-1992; guest books, 1965-1998; scheduling books, 1990-1998; nominations to military academies, 1949-1963; House of Representatives members' and Yates's personal voting record, 1953-1980; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, 1948-1989; and miscellaneous papers, 1950-1970. The collection also includes files documenting Yates's lifetime voting record; service on the House Appropriations Committee and Foreign Operations subcommittee; Small Business Committee files, 1955-1962, and Supersonic Transport (SST) legislation, administration, and research files, 1967-1975. Other subjects represented include the Post Office (1970-1994), the House Unamerican Activities Committee (1966), the Civil Rights Act (1966), the Holocaust Museum (1980-1989), Watergate and the Nixon impeachment and pardon (1973-1974), the Lake Diversion (1959) and subsequent amendment (1978), and Admiral Hyman Rickover, inventor of the nuclear submarine. Also includes miscellaneous mailings by Yates as United States Congressman to his constituents in Chicago and Evanston (Ill.). Some contain results of surveys of constituent opinions.

235.5 linear ft.

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