Evangeline Kroh TerHeun collection, 1952-1964 [manuscript].

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Evangeline Kroh TerHeun collection, 1952-1964 [manuscript].

This collection consists of TerHeun's incoming and outgoing political correspondence. It reflects both local and national issues of the time, including Senator John Bricker's proposed constitutional amendment concerning United States treaties, the perceived communist threat in the United States, and Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Of special note is the documentation of TerHeun's grassroots effort to organize the Arizona Republican Party women during the 1952 presidential campaign and race relations in Arizona during the 1964 presidential campaign. Correspondents include Senator John W. Bricker, Senator Paul Fannin, Senator Barry Goldwater, J. Edgar Hoover, Denison Kitchel, Clarence Manion, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Senator Pat McCarran, and Representative John J. Rhodes.

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8090699

Arizona State University Libraries

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Arizona Historical Foundation

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This collection is comprised of oral histories from a variety or unrelated sources, the majority resulting from three projects. These oral histories are not part of an existing manuscript collection and are arranged to allow for further additions. The Arizona Way project, created in 1977 as part of a project that examined the traditional values of Arizona, focused on the Anglo, Hispanic and Native American cultures through oral histories. It was funded by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Coun...

Republican Party (Ariz.)

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The election year 1952 was a landmark for the Arizona Republican Party. Barry M. Goldwater was elected to the U.S. Senate, John Rhodes was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and Howard Pyle was elected governor. Prior to this, the last Arizona Republican to have served in Congress was Senator Ralph Cameron whose term ended in 1927. The election results were remarkable considering that registered voters in the Democratic Party members outnumbered those in the Republican Par...

Maricopa County Women's Republican Club (Ariz.)

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Scottsdale Federation of Republican Women (Ariz.)

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Terheun, Evangeline Kroh, 1904-

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Civic leader, of Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz.; b. Evangeline Kroh; married DeWitt M. Terheun. From the description of Papers, 1952-1964. (Nogales-Santa Cruz County Public Library). WorldCat record id: 28416466 Evangeline Kroh TerHeun (1898-1966) was an influential Republican Party activist in Scottsdale, Arizona. She organized the Maricopa County Women's Republican Club in 1952 and was Nationalities Chairman of the Scottsdale Federation of Republican Women in 1964. ...