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Michigan -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Kennedy family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00068
Scope and Contents The Kennedy family papers consist of seven letters. The earliest (1817) was written by a young woman describing a mid-winter journey home through western New York by wagon sleigh. Five letters in the collection were written by Frederick A. Kennedy to this wife Caroline while he was serving in the Michigan State legislature in Detroit in 1846. Kennedy discusses current actions of the legislature, including the passage of a bill to pay legislators $3.00 per day; and the initial defeat and...
Dates: 1817 - 1862
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kenneth Priestly collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00328
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a circular from the election of 1876 entitled "Life of Gov. Tilden, Our Next President"; a membership advertisement (1886) for the Tuscola County, Michigan Club, signed by N. M. Richardson; and an election circular (1890) for George W. Stone for auditor general of Michigan.

Dates: 1876 - 1890
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kit Clardy papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00278
Scope and Contents

The collection contains campaign materials, newspaper clippings, and weekly "Washington Reports," newsletters to Clardy's constituents describing his Congressional and committee work.

Dates: 1950 - 1954
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lucy Perrin Palmer memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: c-00017
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of typewritten excerpts from memoirs written by Lucy Perrin Palmer whose relatives settled in St. Johns, Michigan. Most notable among these was Henry M. Perrin, lawyer and state senator. The memoirs cover family history from 1840 to 1889.

Dates: 1945
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary Taylor Hale correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: c-00330
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the correspondence was written by friends and relatives in Michigan and California in the period 1864-1880 to Mary Taylor, later Mrs. Richard Hale, a school teacher residing in Milford, Michigan

In addition to education and the problems of teaching, such topics as the Civil War, the draft, election politics, and farming activities are discussed.

Also included are the courtship letters (1842) of John Taylor of Milford and Jane Wark of New York City.

Dates: 1835 - 1880
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan Constitutional Convention records

 Collection
Identifier: 00068
Scope and Contents This collection, comprising several individual donations of varying sizes, is divided into six series: Preparatory Phase (before October 3, 1961); The Convention in Session (October 3, 1961-August 1, 1962); Post-Convention Phase (after August 1, 1962); Added materials (after initial processing); Photographs and Scrapbooks; and Maps and Oversized Materials. The first three series are further divided essentially into (A) Personal Correspondence and Manuscript Materials and (B) Printed and...
Dates: 1956 - 1977
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan Government Television (MGTV) collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00252
Scope and Content The collection consists of daily programming schedules and videorecordings received from Michigan Government Television (MGTV) during its operation. Coverage includes the televised broadcasts of proceedings of the House of Representatives, the Senate, oral arguments at the Supreme Court, speakers at the Economic Club of Detroit, commencement speakers at universities in the state, press conferences of state officials, committee and commission meetings of many state departments, live phone-in...
Dates: 1996 - 2013
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mortimer Bradley Martin papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00533
Scope and Contents

The collection contains financial records and newspaper clippings of Mortimer Bradley Martin, a farmer in Shiawassee County, Michigan. Three account books list farm and personal expenses for 1837-1841, 1840-1849, and 1862-1906. A detailed obituary and two newspaper articles, one about Martin's violin and the other about the farm house he built, are also included.

Dates: 1837 - 1906
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Parsons family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00020
Scope and Contents The papers consist mainly of correspondence, diaries and account books of the Edward Parsons family from 1824 to 1910. Most of the material is personal correspondence between the Edward Parsons family and relatives living in Livingston and Clinton Counties, New York. A great number of letters between Edward and his father, Reverend Levi Parsons (1779-1864) are included. The contents of these letters range from Levi's concern over Edward's problems at Hamilton College (Clinton, New York) in...
Dates: 1824 - 1910
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Paul D. Bagwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.6
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, speeches, records, newspaper clippings, photographs and printed material of the public and private career of Paul D. Bagwell. The collection also includes two scrapbooks.

Dates: 1938 - 1960
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections