GEORGE LATIMER:

Biographical information, correspondence, financial and fund raising materials, polls and questionnaires, research files, news releases, clippings, and magazine articles, campaign literature, schedules, and audio and video recordings compiled by George Latimer as mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota (1977-1989). They document his mayoral campaigns (1977-1987), his brief campaign for governor of Minnesota (1986), and two proposed campaigns: for U. S. Senate (1984) and for governor of Minnesota (1990). In 1990 Latimer was appointed dean of the Hamline University Law School.

Mayoral campaign records are mainly financial, including documentation of fund raising events. Also included are materials on other mayoral candidates. Fairly extensive records document Latimer's campaign for governor in 1986. there are a few records documenting the 1988 presidential campaign, in which Latimer was an early supporter of Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis.

The records of "The Saint Paul Experiment: A Study of St. Paul Government," a project undertaken by Professor David Lanegran and students from Macalester College (St. Paul), are also found in the papers. Included are typed transcripts of interviews between the students and Mayor Latimer and other city officials, drafts of articles by the students and background materials on the project and on St. Paul city government, and an unbound copy of a manuscript about the project.

The collection contains a complete set of the mayor's daily schedule sheets (1981-1987); his appointment books (1976-1982, 1984); and numerous audio and video recordings including campaign ads and speeches and Latimer's appearances on local and national radio and television.

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The materials in this collection are divided into the following four series:

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. George Latimer Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 14,267; 16,300

Location of Master Files:

Digital masters of videocassettes are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.

The original videocassettes were disposed after they were digitally reformatted into MOV files.

Processing Information:

Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, August 1990 and Alex Kent, October 2009.

Catalog ID number: 990017147970104294

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Four cases containing 58 audiocassettes.

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Latimer's St. Paul mayor's office files are in the Minnesota State Archives.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Campaign funds -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Electioneering -- Minnesota.

Governors -- Minnesota -- Election -- 1986.

Mayors -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Election.

Municipal government -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Municipal officials and employees -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Politics, Practical -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1984.

Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1988.

Organizations:

Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

Macalester College.

National League of Cities.

District Heating Development Company (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Persons:

Dukasis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933-

Mondale, Walter F., 1928-.

Perpich, Rudy, 1928-1995.

Wellstone, Paul David.

Occupation:

Mayors -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.

Type of Documents:

Video recordings (physical artifacts).

Audio recordings.

Interviews.

Recipes.

Schedules.

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