Political campaigns -- Arkansas
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
John Elvis Miller Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1358
Scope and Content Note
Papers and materials pertaining to John Elvis Miller. The collection contains correspondence, press clippings, speeches, and other materials highlighting certain periods of Miller life, especially 1937-1941, and from the late 1950s through his death in 1981. The collection's six scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings covering his 1937 senatorial campaign and his career as a U.S. Senator. The collection also includes fifty-eight images, including individual portraits, photographs of formal...
Dates:
1917-1981
Art Pennington Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 2049
Scope and Content Note
This collection is comprised of five items: three photographs, measuring approximately 8 x 10 inches, and two broadsides, measuring 11 x 14 inches. The first photograph is of Art Pennington, wearing a Chicago American Giants uniform, posed with two unidentified men, the second photograph is of Pennington sliding into home plate wearing a Havana Lions (Habana Leones) uniform, and the third photograph is of an unidentified boy catching a baseball. The two broadsides are from...
Dates:
circa 1940-1980
David H. Pryor Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 336
Scope and Content Note
The collection is divided into four major groups. Group I includes materials from Senator Pryor's time as publisher of the Ouachita Citizen, his terms in the Arkansas General Assembly and United States House of Representatives, and his two terms as governor of Arkansas. Group II includes materials related to his term in the United States Senate; this group also includes materials related to Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign and inauguration as well...
Dates:
1934-2004
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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David H. Pryor Papers
Joseph Taylor Robinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS R563 18
Scope and Content Note
The Joseph Taylor Robinson papers (primarily 1900-1937) contain correspondence, memoranda, speeches, legislative bills, business and financial records, legal files, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other materials created or received by or pertaining to Robinson's life and career, especially to his service as U. S. Senator from Arkansas, 1913-1937.
Dates:
1900-1954; Majority of material found within 1900-1937
Joseph Taylor Robinson Papers Supplement
Collection
Identifier: MS R563s 368 368a
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Joseph Taylor Robinson, and supplementing the Joseph Taylor Robinson Papers, 1900-1937 (216 feet).
Dates:
1879-1965; Majority of material found within 1905-1937
Vada Webb Sheid Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 930
Scope and Content Note
The papers contain legislative research files, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers. For the most part, file titles assigned by Vada Sheid have been retained. Research files contain correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and other papers, and are arranged alphabetically by topic. Speeches and recordings contain speeches prepared by Sheid arranged alphabetically by topic. Audio-cassette recordings include recordings of campaign speeches and speeches by Arkansas Senator...
Dates:
1934-1987
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Vada Webb Sheid Papers
Lindsley Smith Arkansas Women Legislators Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: MC 1755
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of video and audio recordings produced or collected by Lindsley Smith as part of her Arkansas Women Legislators Oral History Project, as well as a related film and video slideshow produced by Smith. Interviewees include members and former members of the Arkansas General Assembly, and topics include their political careers, education, and family histories, as well as their advice for future female politicians. The bulk of the interviews were conducted by Smith; an...
Dates:
2006-2013
Ray S. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1837
Scope and Content Note
Materials in the Ray S. Smith Papers include correspondence, congressional activities, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, plaques, and various ephemera materials.
Dates:
1950-2007
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Ray S. Smith Papers
Ray Thornton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1964
Scope and Content Note
Materials pertain to both personal and professional aspects of Ray Thornton’s life. Personal materials include correspondence from family and friends; annotated books; and collected mementoes. Other personal materials encompass genealogical notes, including research materials related to A.J. Stephens: As Remembered by His Family (1983) and an unpublished biography of Witt Stephens. Professional materials pertain to Thornton’s multifaceted career,...
Dates:
1898, 1928-2017; Majority of material found within 1945-2011
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Ray Thornton Papers
Jim Guy Tucker Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1690
Scope and Content Note
Materials include newspaper clippings and photographs from Tucker's 1978 senatorial campaign. The collection also includes an article dating from 2005 concerning his medical problems.
Dates:
1976-2004
W. E. Woodruff Campaign Letter
Collection
Identifier: MC 655
Scope and Content Note
Printed letter from W. E. Woodruff announcing himself as candidate for renomination as State Treasurer, describing his accomplishments as Treasurer since 1881.
Dates:
1890