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19. Politics

 Record Group
Identifier: 19
Archival collections regarding politics, particularly in Houston and Texas, 20th century.

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Walter Gardner Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0280
Abstract

Correspondence, memos, oral history interviews, political pamphlets, broadsides, and clippings, relating to Hall's involvement with the Texas and national Democratic parties and soil and water conservation and improvement. Correspondents include Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Jim Wright, and Ralph Yarborough.

Dates: 1923 - 1990

Temperance and Prohibition collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0097
Abstract

This collection consists of broadsides and pamphlets in favor of prohibition and temperance.

Dates: 1900 - 1944

Colonel Edward M. House correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0263
Abstract

This collection contains a compilation of letters to and from Colonel House regarding business deals, financial holdings, and politics. The majority of the letters are addressed to Thomas C. Dunn. Other correspondents include: Dewitt C. Dunn, Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury Department, and Paul M. Warburg. Topics discussed include real estate, federal and regional reserve banks.

Dates: 1896 - 1927