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An interview of Jim Edgar conducted by Mark DePue for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library -- Topics discussed include Gov. Jim Edgar; Gov. Jim Thompson; Senator W. Russell Arrington; Gov. Richard Ogilvie; Eastern Illinois University; Cutback Amendment; Jim Edgar as Secretary of State; DUI legislation in Illinois; auto insurance legislation; 1990 Illinois gubernatorial election; Neil Hartigan; Illinois budget battles of 1991 and 1992; Mike Lawrence; Joan Walters; Kirk Dillard; Jim Reilly; Gene Reineke; Al Grosboll; Flood of 1993; ERA fight in Illinois; 1994 gubernatorial election; Dawn Clark Netsch; Mike Madigan; Phil Rock; James 'Pate' Philip; George Ryan; Lee Daniels; Chicago Education Reform; Illinois Education Reform; creation of the Dept. of Human Services and of the Dept. of Natural Resources; Gov. Rod Blagojevich; Management Services of Illinois (MSI) scandal; Jim Edgar Panther Creek; Gov. Pat Quinn; and Mike McCormick

The records of the Montana 20th Legislative Assembly consist of minutes from the Regular Session of the House Special Committee to Investigate the Office of Secretary of State. The collection also includes the "Proceedings of the Court for the Trial of Impeachment; " articles of impeachment; corrections to closing arguments and impeachment proceedings; oaths of Senators; affidavit of Attorney General L.A. Foot; and a list of those subpoenaed. (Legislative Records 20)

Decius Wade was Montana Territorial Supreme Court Justice and former Andover, Ohio, attorney, judge, and legislator. Collection (1853-1905) includes a Wade family genealogy; correspondence with Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Charles W. Kellogg, and various family members, concerning his legal and family concerns; writings, and other materials. Also included are papers for five other family members: Bernice Galpin Wade, Charles H. Wade, Clare Wade Safford, Lucia Wade, and Marcia Wade

A variety of bills, notes, petitions, messages, and other documents created by or submitted to the legislature. Most are from the 1850s and 1860s, and many pertain to the first state legislature of 1858. They have not been correlated with bill files or other more structured records

The scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings pertaining to Cooper's career as a state employee. Volume 1, compiled by his wife, covers 1930 through 1939. Volume 2 covers 1939 through 1940 and 1949 through 1950 and contains loose clippings relating to scandals in Louisiana (1939) and to Cooper's role as auditor. Included are articles furnished by clipping services, 1949-1950

Keith Roy served in the Indian Civil Service beginning in 1934. He was the middle son of Sannyasi Charan Roy and Constance Annie Scott

Political correspondence chiefly relating to elections and patronage. Included are correspondence of Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin concerning his defeat in Northumberland, 1837, by William Holmes, a Tory, and Donkin's belief that Holmes had purchased votes. There are also references to voting irregularities in Denbigh, 1837; material on the organization of the Reform Club, 1836; information on Liverpool shipping investigations, 1836, and politics in the sale of crown lands, involving Lord Ducannon and Sir Edward Knatchbull, 1836; and correspondence of Lord John Russell with Henry Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, regarding the lack of magistrates in the parish of Halifax. Other correspondents include James Cappock; Thomas Drummond; John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham; John Ponsonby; John William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon; and Lord Palmerston

Papers relating to his career as a county attorney general in Anderson County, Tennessee -- Includes material relating to his attempts to root out political corruption and his controversies with the judicial and political systems in the state

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, financial records, subject files, transcripts of interviews, family papers, scrapbooks, awards, articles, news clippings, digital files, and other papers primarily relating to the careers of the Grahams with the Washington Post and Washington Post Company, and to their personal lives. Consists largely of material pertaining to Katharine Graham's roles as president and chief executive officer of the Washington Post Company, and as publisher of the Washington Post and Newsweek magazine. Documents the issues she encountered during the 1970s, including the Watergate Affair and the pressmen's strike of 1975; the research and writing process for her Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Personal History (1997), describing the challenges she faced as one of the first female publishers of a major American newspaper; leadership roles outside of the Washington Post Company, including with American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Associated Press; ...

Correspondence, speeches, broadcast scripts, articles and book production material, family papers, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Schorr's career in journalism. Documents his work for Cable News Network, Columbia Broadcasting System, inc., and National Public Radio. Also documents his service as a U.S. Army intelligence officer stationed at Camp Polk, La., and Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex., during World War II, and his participation in the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (later the Aspen Institute). Subjects include civil rights, environment, freedom of speech, urban problems, scandals involving the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Watergate Affair. Subjects also include postwar reconstruction, the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Berlin Crisis, the Cold War, superpower summit meetings, political affairs in the Soviet Union, and the Persian-Gulf War, 1991. Includes a ...