Government and Politics

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Ruthford H. Westveld Papers, 1956-1965 (C2416)
2.9 cubic feet

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Papers relating to the background, passage and enforcement of the McIntire-Stennis Act for Cooperative Forestry Research. Correspondence of state forestry officials, representatives and senators, U.S. Department of Agriculture and other concerned people and agencies. Westveld was a leading advocate of forestry research.

Alan Dupree Wheat Papers, 1982-1924 (K0860)
257 c.f.

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Congressional files of US Representative Alan Wheat. Includes press releases, newsletters, correspondence, Member's Individual Voting Records, office files, calendars, speeches, photographs, and videotapes.

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James Parker Wheatley Papers, 1945-1982 (S0205)
1 cubic foot, 4 folders, 16 volumes

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The James Parker Wheatley Papers document the daily activities of a pioneer in educational television programming. Born in 1906, Wheatley served as a broadcaster on the Armed Forces Network, general manager of WGBH in Boston, and the first public affairs director of KMOX in St. Louis. Materials of interest include Wheatley's diaries, reflecting his appointments with potential interviewees for programs on WGBH and KMOX, and an undated telephone directory of his professional contacts.

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Amos Wheeler Commission, 1822 (C1677)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains an image of a commission for Amos Wheeler as a notary public for St. Louis and St. Louis County, MO, 21 May 1822. The commission is signed by William G. Pettus, secretary of state, and Alexander McNair, governor. The commission has an impression of the state seal.

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Charles Bertan Wheeler, Jr. Papers, 1964-1979 (K0028)
132 c.f. + 11 vol (MR)

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Personal papers for Wheeler's service as Mayor of Kansas City and a small portion as Western Judge of the Jackson County Court and as Jackson County Coroner.

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Charles Bertan Wheeler Jr. Missouri Senatorial Papers, 2002-2004 (K0449)
4 c.f.

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Correspondence, newspapers and magazines articles, meeting appointments, and various research materials on topics relating to legislation before the Missouri Senate.

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Whig Party Papers, 1854 (C2863)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Arguments of two factions of the Missouri Whig Party addressed to the voters of the 2nd congressional district during the 1854 election. OVERSIZE.

Whig Ticket (St. Louis County, Mo.), 1844 (C2809)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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A broadside listing the Whig ticket "regular nominations, except for Sheriff, St. Louis County." The broadside also lists candidates for St. Louis township justices of the peace and constable and independent candidates for state-wide offices.

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Thomas B. Whitledge Papers, 1874-1916 (R0276)
(22 folders)

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These are letters to Thomas B. Whitledge, an attorney and politician in St. Marys, Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. Correspondents include Edward A. Rozier, Benjamin B. Cahoon, and Richard C. Kerens. Subjects include levee districts, railroads, oil exploration, and the Republican Party. Topics in the latter category include patronage, religious toleration, and the Taft/Roosevelt split of 1912.

William Brewer Whitlow Papers, 1923-1942 (C0035A)
1.75 cubic feet

Whitlow's political papers as chairman, Callaway County Democratic Committee; member, State Democratic Committee, 1937-1939; and state senator from the 10th district, 1938-1942. These papers concern campaign programs, publicity and speakers; public opinion and reaction to proposed legislation; constituent requests and endorsements; and Senate bills, amendments and committee work.

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Rex M. Whitton Papers, 1920-1981 (C3917)
3.25 cubic feet

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Papers of Rex M. Whitton, Chief Engineer of the Missouri State Highway Department and Federal Highway Administrator under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Papers consist of speeches, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to his position and activities as Federal Highway Administrator.

"Why State History?" Edwin C. McReynolds, 1965 (C2896)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a paper presented to the Seventh Missouri Conference on History, held at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The paper discusses how the history of an area influences the actions of political leaders.

Margaret Boggs Wight Collection, 1908-1918 (P0521)
5 photographs

Copy images of Boone Co Circuit Clerk's Office, Armistice day broadside, and invitation to a hanging.

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Robert S. Wiley Collection, 1869-1994 (R0521)
8.5 cubic feet (177 folders, 639 photographs, 25 slides, 2 audio discs, 13 oversize folders)

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The Robert S. Wiley Collection consists of legal documents, publications, promotional material, and ephemera related to Missouri, specifically Stone County, and to travel, tourism and recreation in the White River region of Missouri and Arkansas. The collection also contains material largely focused on Missouri State Representative Dewey Short and the Republican Party.

Frank Courtney Wilkinson Family Papers, 1862-1958 (K0713)
41 c.f.

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Wilkinson was an attorney, banker, real estate businessman, and member of the Missouri House of Representatives. Includes notebooks, photographs, memorabilia, correspondence among family member, high school and college coursework, Navy publications and printed material used in son Frank Lee Wilkinson's training during World War II, and genealogical research and family history.

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James Wilkinson Proclamation, 1806 (C1809)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Proclamation forming the Arkansas District of the Louisiana Territory and appointing district officials.

James Wilkinson Proclamation, 1806 (C1810)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Proclamation altering the boundary between the New Madrid and the Cape Girardeau Districts of the Louisiana Territory.

Clarence Williams Photograph Collection, 1928-1946 (P0063)
6 photographs

3 original photos of log cabin that was the birthplace of Andrew Taylor Still, one of which shows a nearby amphitheater. 2 photos of American School of Osteopathy, established in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still. One photo of the Churchill-Truman visit to Westminster College.

Clyde Williams Papers, 1904-1941 (C0188)
0.22 cubic feet (11 folders)

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Papers of a congressman from Missouri, 1927 to 1942. Arranged chronologically, the papers include Williams' commission as prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County, 1904; petitions endorsing Williams' application as a commissioner of the Missouri Supreme Court, 1922; constituent correspondence, mostly requesting government publications and copies of Williams' speeches and undated jokes and stories possibly used in speeches.

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Clyde Williams Papers, 1920s-1940s (CA6437)
1 cubic foot

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Speeches, clippings, biographical information, and miscellaneous material of a lawyer from Jefferson County who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative in the late 1920s to the early 1940s.

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Roy D. Williams Papers, 1853-1972 (C3769)
2.0 cubic feet (122 folders)

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Papers of Judge Roy D. Williams of Boonville, Missouri, containing speeches (primarily on local and regional history), historical notes, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and miscellany.

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Wilson Family Papers, 1898-1926 (C0438)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)

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Biographical sketches, 1898, of John Wilson and R.P.C. Wilson, Platte County, MO, politicians; resolution about Platte County delegates to constitutional convention; letter, 1926, with Civil War reminiscences of Confederate troops under Sterling Price.

Wilson's Creek Battlefield National Park Commission Deed, 1964 (C2193)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains photocopied documentation of land deeded by the State of Missouri in Greene County.

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Francis M. Wilson Papers, 1853-1946 (C1039)
27.4 cubic feet, 14 oversize volumes

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Papers of a U.S. district attorney, receiver for the Kansas City Railways Company, and Democratic nominee for governor of Missouri in 1928 and 1932, who died a month before the election of 1932. Also papers concerning his father, R.P.C. Wilson, I.

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H. Clyde Wilson Papers, 1962-1984 (C0390)
5.6 cubic feet (321 folders)

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The papers contain campaign materials from Wilson’s 1970 challenge to the 8th district’s incumbent U.S. congressman Richard H. Ichord, arranged as county files or research and reference files; Columbia City Council files arranged alphabetically by topic; and material regarding cable television coming to Columbia.

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R.P.C. Wilson II Papers, 1910-1939 (C1040)
1.9 cubic feet (210 folders)

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Correspondence and papers of a doctor who specialized in the treatment of the "feebleminded" and epileptic who was superintendent of the Missouri State Colony for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic in Marshall, Missouri, from 1912-1920, 1933-1940, and 1949-1953. The institution is now called the Marshall Habilitation Center.

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Theo Wilson Papers, 1914-1997 (C3972)
9.0 cubic feet (451 folders, 7 volumes), 4 rolls of microfilm, 1 audio cassette, 1 audio tape, 1 video cassette

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The papers of Theodore R. Wilson, trial reporter for the New York Daily News, consist of newspaper articles, trial notes, awards, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous items spanning her 60-year career as a reporter and writer.

Yvonne Starks Wilson Papers, 1937-2019 (KA2506)
29 cubic feet

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Papers related to the life of Yvonne Wilson.

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Betty Winfield Papers, 1978-1997 (C4462)
1.5 cubic feet (63 folders)

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The papers of journalism historian and former University of Missouri Professor, including research material and notes for her doctoral dissertation Roosevelt and the Press: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Influenced Newsgathering, 1933-1941 (1978) and her books FDR and the News Media (1990) and Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music (1999).

Winston Family Papers, 1805-1886 (C0190)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Letters to and from various members of a North Carolina family concerning settlement of estate, governmental positions, sums of money, and family information. Bill of sale for two slaves. Letter from Francis Marion Cockrell to John H. Winston, Clay County, MO, concerning possibilities of renomination for the U.S. Senate.

Jacob H. Wolf Jr. Papers, 1972-1980 (CA6493)
3.3 cubic feet, 6 audio cassettes, 1 oversize item

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The papers of a UPI bureau chief in Jefferson City, Missouri, contain material from Missouri political campaigns on which Wolf served as press secretary.

Women of the Mansion Photograph Collection, 1834-1933 (P0536)
0.5 linear feet

Photos of Missouri first ladies, female relatives of the governer, and the governer's mansion. Many images used in their book Women of the Mansion, Missouri, 1821-1936

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Women's Cancer Control Program Auxiliary Records, 1979-1995 (C3933)
1.5 cubic feet

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The records of the Women's Cancer Control Program Auxiliary consist of organizational and legal papers, publicity and informational materials, financial records, correspondence, membership lists, and scrapbooks. Information pertaining to the local chapters of the auxiliary is provided as well.

Women's Suffrage Papers, [1880s] (C1766)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Arguments against women's suffrage.

Leland S. Wood Photographs, no date (P0963)
3 photographs

Photos of Forrest Smith and his wife, Mildred, at Lake Taneycomo

Harriett F. Woods Papers, 1939-2006 (S0051)
60 cubic feet, 384 photographs, 34 scrapbooks, 22 audio cassettees, 81 videos, 3 16mm films

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The papers of Harriett Woods contain correspondence, senate bills, transcripts of senate committee hearings, newsletters, press releases, and photographs chronicling her life as a journalist, television producer, Lieutenant Governor, and Missouri State Senator from the 13th district. 

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Daniel Woodson Papers, 1855-1857 (K0472)
0.01 c.f.

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Miscellaneous items relating to Woodson, Secretary of the Kansas Territory, and for a five-time acting Governor.

Warren Woodson Papers, 1853, 1866 (C2847)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Appeals to the voters of Boone County, MO, during elections for county clerk, 1853 and 1866. Reply to Woodson's appeal by Odon Guitar, 1866.

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Lloyd E. Worner Jr. Papers, 1943 (C0418)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters to Worner in response to his inquiries about state and national politics ca. 1920 from Arthur M. Hyde, Charles M. Hay, and E. Mont. Reily.

Dr. Katie H. Wright Papers, 1970-2000 (S0646)
4.5 cubic feet, 108 folders, 239 photographs, 1 scrapbook

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Dr. Katie H. Wright is a well-known historian, writer, educator, and community volunteer in St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois. She was also a weekly columnist for the St. Louis Argus, a historic Black newspaper. The collection contains Dr. Wright’s correspondence, reports, awards, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to her educational career, accomplishments as historian and writer, and work with the East St. Louis Board of Education, Board of Elections, and Public Library, as well as the Illinois Department of Corrections.

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Charles S. Yancey Letters, 1839-1865 (C0192)
0.16 cubic feet (8 folders)

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Letters of a circuit court judge from Greene County, Missouri, largely written to his wife in Springfield. Tell of the court; discusses Benton; Clay Compromise; and the slavery question. Other family letters. Originals in possession of donor.

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Doris L. Yelton Political Button Collection, 1860s-1990s (C4604)
0.35 cubic feet (8 folders)

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Political buttons, ribbons, and miscellaneous items collected by Doris "Sally" Yelton, an antique collector and dealer from Jefferson City, Missouri, 1860s-1990s.

Young Americans for Freedom, Rolla High School Chapter Records, 1964-1966 (R0639)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Young Americans for Freedom, Rolla High School Chapter Records contain materials pertaining to the Rolla High School Chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom. It consists of the constitution, by-laws and charter, newspaper clippings concerning the chapter’s events and activities, and printed materials from the national headquarters.

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Robert A. Young Papers, 1974-1986 (S0517)
55 cubic feet, 1116 folders, 131 photographs, 1 cassette tape

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Robert A. Young (1923-2007) represented the Missouri Second Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1986. He served on two major committees, Public Works and Transportation, and Science and Technology. The collection contains correspondence, reports, studies, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Topics of interest include agriculture, civil and human rights, historic preservation, including the Old Post Office in St. Louis, and the city of Kinloch, Missouri.

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Christine I. Zelinsky Photograph Collection, 1967-1969 (K0678)
0.5 c.f.

Zelinsky is an artist and freelance graphics designer who was hired by the City of Kansas City to establish a design program for the city. Includes slide transparencies depicting Kansas City architecture and the various activities at City Hall.

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Orville Zimmerman Papers, 1922-1962 (C0863)
4.1 cubic feet (309 folders)

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Correspondence and other papers from Zimmerman's terms as a Democratic congressman from Missouri's 10th district, 1935-1948. Zimmerman's major committee assignments included the Agriculture, Flood Control, and Post-War Economic Policy and Planning Committees.

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