Lynn A. Williams papers, 1945-1981.

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Lynn A. Williams papers, 1945-1981.

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Papers of Williams, corporate lawyer, businessman, inventor, philosopher, and Democratic committeeman for New Trier Township (Cook County, Illinois) 1966-1985. The largest group of materials relates to his 1964 campaign in Illinois' 13th Congressional District as the Democratic nominee. Campaign material includes correspondence (general and fundraising), brochures, press releases, speeches, and voting record material on Williams' Republican Party opponent, Congressman Donald Rumsfeld. Also present are materials relative to Williams' organization of the University of Chicago's Great Books educational program in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and his collaboration with the Institute of Philosophic Research (in California) on a paper on human freedom in the 1950s. The Institute later moved to Chicago.

3.5 linear ft. (8 boxes)

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