Dixy Lee Ray papers, 1937-1982.

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Dixy Lee Ray papers, 1937-1982.

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Correspondence, speeches, reports, studies, printed matter, audiovisual material, and memorabilia, relating primarily to nuclear energy in the United States, and to Washington state politics.

170 ms. boxes, 14 oversize boxes, 3 card file boxes, 3 cu. ft. boxes, 135 envelopes, 1 album box, 7 slide boxes, 16 motion picture film reels, 1 videotape cassette, 2 phonorecords, 3 linear ft., memorabilia.

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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Ray, Dixy Lee, 1914-1994

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Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914 – January 2, 1994) was an American scientist and politician who served as the 17th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington. Variously described as idiosyncratic, and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy and a critic of the environmentalist movement. A graduate of Mills College and Stanford University, where she earned a doctorate in b...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...