HAROLD E. STASSEN:

Harold Stassen was born on a farm in Dakota County, Minnesota on April 13, 1907, the fourth of William A. and Elsie (Mueller) Stassen's five children. He graduated from St. Paul's Humboldt High School at the age of 14, and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929.

Stassen opened his first law office in South St. Paul (November 1929) with Elmer J. Ryan as his partner. He was elected Dakota County attorney a year later and served two terms. In 1938, at the age of 31, Harold Stassen was elected Governor of Minnesota, the youngest governor in the state's history. He was reelected governor in 1940 and, again, in 1942.

Four months into his third term Stassen resigned and enlisted in the Navy (April 27, 1943). He served as Admiral William F. Halsey's assistant chief of staff, was decorated three times, awarded six major battle stars, and was in charge of the Navy's prisoner evacuation program in Japan. He was released from active service on November 15, 1945. During his Naval service Stassen was selected by President Roosevelt as a delegate to the United Nations charter conference in San Francisco (April-June 1945).

Stassen was a strong contender for the 1948 Republican nomination for President but was defeated by Thomas Dewey at the G.O.P. national convention. Following the campaign Stassen served as president of the University of Pennsylvania (1948-1953). Stassen also ran a strong campaign against Senator Robert Taft of Ohio for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination, but both Stassen and Taft were defeated by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1953 President Eisenhower chose Stassen as a member of his Cabinet and the National Security Council. He served as director of the Mutual Security Agency and the Foreign Operations Administration. In 1955 Eisenhower appointed Stassen as Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament Policy and was the chief U.S. negotiator at the 1957 London Arms Control Negotiations.

In July and August of 1956 Stassen took a leave of absence from the Eisenhower cabinet and tried unsuccessfully to convince delegates to the Republican National Convention to replace Richard Nixon with Christian Herter (then Governor of Massachusetts) as Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate.

When the London Arms Control Negotiations ended in a stalemate and in disagreement with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Stassen resigned his cabinet position (February 18, 1958) and moved to Philadelphia where he practiced law and continued his involvement in politics.

He campaigned unsuccessfully for governor of Pennsylvania (1958 and 1966) and for mayor of Philadelphia (1959). In 1978 Stassen moved back to Minnesota and ran a senatorial campaign for the U.S. legislature. In 1982 he campaigned for the Minnesota governorship and in 1986 for the fourth district congressional seat. He also campaigned as a Republican for the U.S. Presidency in every election except 1956, 1960, and 1972.

Raised as a Baptist, Stassen was active with regional Baptist associations as well as many other religious organizations. He was vice president of the Northern Baptist Convention in 1942, national co-chairman of its World Mission Crusade in 1946, and a state regional chair for major gifts of the World Mission Campaign in 1967. He was president of the Convention in 1963-1964 during which time he led a tour to Moscow to meet with members of Russia's Baptist All Union Congress. As Governor of Minnesota, throughout his naval service, and into his University of Pennsylvania presidency, Stassen served as the president of the International Council on Religious Education and helped merge that organization with the National Council of the Churches of Christ in 1950. After their merger, Stassen continued by participating in the Council's Division of Christian Education. In 1946 and 1949 he participated with the National Conference of Christians and Jews on publicity for their annual observance of Brotherhood Week. In the latter 1960s and early 1970s Stassen also participated with the U.S. Inter-religious Committee on Peace which sponsored a series of conferences on religion and peace.

Harold Stassen married Esther G. Glewwe on November 14, 1929 and they had two children: a son, Glen Harold, and a daughter, Kathleen Esther.

Biographical data was taken from Robert E. Matteson, Harold Stassen: His Career, the Man, and the 1957 London Arms Control Negotiations (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.: Desk Top, Inc., 1993), and from the collection.

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The principal strengths of the collection lie in its representations of mid-twentieth century Republican Party dynamics and United States international relations.

A major portion of the papers relate to Stassen's involvement in Minnesota and national Republican politics, most notably his 1938 gubernatorial campaign and his 1948 and 1952 presidential campaigns. One notable aspect of this coverage is the documentation of strategies and organizational structures Stassen utilized in order to conduct campaigns which broke from the traditional emphasis on Republican party leadership, instead relying on grass roots campaigning. This strategy of bringing the campaign to the people necessitated an abundance of speeches, the coordination of protracted campaign tours entailing numerous stops, the administration of local campaign headquarters, and extensive correspondence between campaign officials, prospective supporters, and the public in general.

Juxtaposed to Stassen's belief in grass roots campaigning is a significant amount of material documenting his relationships with several key national and state Republican Party figures including Thomas E. Dewey, Robert A. Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, Amos J. Peaslee, Edward J. Thye, Joseph Ball, Elmer Ryan, George MacKinnon, Bernhard M. Shanley, Bernard W. LeVander, and Elizabeth P. Heffelfinger.

Stassen's advocacy of the United States as a leading participant in international affairs is reflected in a significant portion of the papers. His resignation as Minnesota's governor in order to enlist in the Navy during World War II was, in part, motivated by his conviction that the country was ill served by isolationist tendencies. Papers related to Stassen's involvement in the development of the United Nations charter illustrate his role in fostering international cooperation, his efforts at forwarding the position of the United States as a global leader, and his emergence as a negotiator in international relations.

After the war the United States' involvement in international relations continued to play a significant role in Stassen's political career. European recovery and the international spread of Communism were important issues during Stassen's 1948 and 1952 presidential campaigns and are well documented in the collection. Papers related to Stassen's posts within the Eisenhower administration deal almost exclusively with international issues, particularly domestic security concerns raised during the Cold War, foreign aid, and nuclear disarmament.

Although the bulk of the collection relates to Stassen's career prior to leaving the Eisenhower Administration in 1958, the remaining papers, though not as extensive, provide documentation of his continued work in politics and internationalism throughout the second half of the century. Stassen continued his activity in Republican politics, campaigning not only in presidential elections but in state and municipal elections as well. He remained outspoken in his views regarding contemporary public policy issues and events such as American involvement in the Vietnam war, the Nixon impeachment proceedings, the Iraq-Kuwait Crisis of 1990-1991, and the evolving role of the United Nations.

In addition to that portion of the collection related to his work in government and politics Stassen's interest in international relations is also reflected in a substantial amount of material concerning his participation in various professional and religious associations. The most notable of these would be the International Council on Religious Education, the Committee on Constitutional Aspects of International Agreements of the American Bar Association, the Crusade for Freedom, the American Baptist Convention, and the U.S. Inter-religious Committee on Peace.

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These records are organized into the following sections:

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Restrictions:

Some original items bearing autographs have been placed in the MHS reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). A photocopy of each item remains in the Stassen papers. Access to and use of reserve materials requires the curator's permission.

Preferred Citation:

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

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 4934; 4959A; 9417; 10,937; 12,515; 12,772; 12,812; 14,359; 14,450; 15,564; 16,522, 16,816; 17,085; 17,666

Location of Master Files

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

The original audio reels, audiocassettes and videocassettes were disposed after they were digitally reformatted into digital MOV and WAV files.

Processing Information:

Processed by: Frank Hennessy, February 1995; Frank Hennessy and Monica Manny Ralston, January 2000.

Additions by: Meagan Kellom and David B. Peterson, December 2010.

Processing and cataloging of this collection was funded in part by the generous support of a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Digital audio transferred from the master audio discs by Mass Productions for preservation purposes, January 2017

Digital audiovisual files transferred from the master audio reels, audio discs, audiocassettes and videocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (January 2017 and April 2019).

Catalog ID number: 990017314460104294

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Biographical and Ephemeral Material

Interviews and Articles

Photographs and Drawings

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Political and Gubernatorial Activities, 1933-1942

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"Harold Stassen and the Rebirth of the Republican Party," by H. Henry Southworth, 1963.

A report describing Stassen's involvement in the creation of the state's Young Republican League, his role in state Republican politics during the 1930s, and his 1938 campaign for the governorship.

Notes and correspondence relating to Armour Packing House strike, 1933.

Correspondence, 1934-1937. 5 folders.

Consists primarily of correspondence with Elmer J. Ryan, Stassen's law partner and Minnesota congressman (1935-1941). Topics include management of their South Saint Paul law office and various issues including patronage, a drought relief bill for Minnesota farmers, and state politics in general.

1936 Republican National Convention: Delegate pass, June 1936.

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1938 Gubernatorial Campaign:

Miscellaneous correspondence and related papers, 1938. 4 folders.

Stassen for Governor Volunteers:

Campaign paraphernalia, 1938.

Lists and account book, 1938.

Employee questionnaires, [1938].

Mass Mailings:

Lists and reports, 1938. 2 folders.

Received and completed, 1938.

Are They Communists or Catspaws?

A booklet published by Ray P. Chase alleging Communist Party connections within Governor Elmer Benson's administration. There are also a few pieces of campaign literature primarily related to a controversy over the validity of photographs which appeared in Chase's booklet and a statement by photographer George Miles Ryan attesting to the authenticity of the photographs.

Benson campaign literature, 1938.

Benson speeches, 1938.

Election statistics:

1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 9th congressional districts. 5 folders.

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1938 gubernatorial vote by counties.

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Farmer-Labor literature, 1938. 2 folders.

Press:

Editorial comments, 1938 2 folders.

Releases in primary campaign, 1938.

Releases to dailies:

All party, 1938. 2 folders.

Republican Central Committee, 1938

Releases to weeklies:

All parties, 1938.

All parties: Special releases to counties, 1938.

Republican Central Committee, 1938

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Releases, 1939.

Weekly articles, 1939-1940.

Speech material. 5 folders.

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Victory in '38: newspaper clippings complied by Web Coffee, May-November 1938. 3 scrapbooks.

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Political Activity, 1938-1943:

The papers in this section relate to Stassen's three terms as Minnesota's governor including his 1940 and 1942 gubernatorial campaigns. Other records related to Stassen and his administration may be found in the Minnesota State Archives.

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1939-1941. 7 folders.

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Photographs, 1938-1943.

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Portraits (photographs): Harold E. Stassen, 1938-1943. 3 folders.

Political cartoon, 1940.

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Subject Files:

All-Party Citizens Committee: State employment recommendations, 1939.

Campaign: Special, 1940.

Chase, Ray P.: "A Story of Shocking Facts and of Abortive Efforts to Suppress Them," 1940.

A highly critical campaign booklet focusing on Saint Paul business executive, Myron William Thatcher's personal life, business practices, and relationship with President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace.

Fifth Columnists, 1940.

Harold Stassen Speaks, 1942.

Excerpts from speeches given by Stassen (1938-1942) exemplifying his social, economic, and political philosophy regarding agriculture, business, government, and the personal rights of the individual. Includes index.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Hughes, Fred (Stassen for Governor Volunteers): Radio address, September 9, 1940.

LeVander, Bernhard W., undated and [circa 1938]-1942. 2 folders.

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Lists, undated and 1939-1940.

Lommen, George H., 1941.

Manitoba-Minnesota Project: The Midcontinent and the Peace, April 1,1943.

Manuscript of a report issued jointly by the universities of Manitoba and Minnesota presenting research into possible problems that the prairie provinces of Canada and the central northwest states of the U.S. would face at the end of World War II.

Minnesota Republican State Chairmen's meeting, June 19-21, 1941.

Morning Hiawatha publicity (Milwaukee Road), 1939. 2 folders.

Newspaper clippings related to Governor Stassen's participation in the inauguration of the Milwaukee Railroad's new streamliner, the Morning Hiawatha. Stassen worked for the railroad while he attended law school.

Peterson, Hjalmar: Addresses, 1940.

Political, State:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1939-1941. 6 folders.

Congressional districts: 1st-5th, 1939-1941. 5 folders.

Political, National, 1940. 2 folders.

Politics:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1942. 5 folders.

County voting maps, [194-?].

Publicity budget, 1938-1943.

Republican, 1940-1942.

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Republican, 1940-1942. 2 folders.

Republican National Convention: Stassen's keynote speech, 1940. 2 folders.

Shipstead, Henrik.

Speech material. 2 folders.

Stassen, Mrs.: Correspondence, undated and 1938-1948.

Storm Over the Union. 3 folders.

Transcript of an unpublished work by Alfred P. "Pat" Blair, the State Labor Conciliator during Stassen's second term as governor (1940-1941). The work recounts events in 1941 surrounding the arrests of some thirty people connected with the Socialist Workers Party in Minneapolis on charges of sedition and a labor hearing dealing with a related struggle for control of Teamsters Local Union 544 between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Blair presided over the hearing and a decision was handed down certifying the American Federation of Labor as the union's representative.

Wilkie presidential campaign, 1940.

News clippings:

Politics, 1939-1941. 2 folders.

Junior Chamber of Commerce Award, January 1940. 2 folders.

Nationwide newspaper coverage of Stassen's reception of an award from the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce as the country's outstanding young man in 1939.

General, 1939-1942. 3 folders.

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Scrapbooks:

1934-1938. 2 volumes.

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1938-1942. 3 volumes and 3 unbound volumes.

1944 Presidential Campaign, 1939-1944

While serving in the Pacific during World War II Stassen was promoted by a group of supporters at home as a Republican presidential candidate for the 1944 election. A resolution passed by the Minnesota Republican State Central Committee (November 22, 1943) pledged its support for an effort to obtain the Republican presidential nomination for Stassen. The Minnesota Republican Volunteer Stassen for President Association was organized within the Republican State Central Committee and a second group called the Stassen-for-President Committee, chaired by the Republican State Central Committee chairman R.C. Radabaugh, worked to garner local and national support for Stassen. Stassen was to be nominated at the 1944 Republican National Convention by Minnesota Senator Joseph H. Ball but due to overwhelming support for Thomas Dewey the Minnesota delegation decided not to place Stassen's name as a nominee.

The bulk of these files were kept by Earl Christmas and relate to his management of the campaign's publicity. Additional material related to Stassen and the 1944 Presidential campaign may be found in the Main subject files and Campaign files of the Minnesota Republican State Central Committee papers in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.

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Correspondence, October 1943-1944. 2 folders.

Earl Christmas Campaign Files:

Church activities, 1941-1943.

Letters:

General distribution, March-April 1944.

Nebraska, 1943-1944.

Oregon, 1944.

South Dakota, 1943-1944.

Washington, 1944.

Military service, 1942-1945.

National radio, 1943.

News clippings, 1944. 2 folders.

Peace volunteers, 1943.

Picture data, 1939-1943.

Radabaugh, Dr. R.C.: Republican State Committee Chairman, 1943.

Stassen in Nebraska, 1943-1944. 2 folders.

Stassen in South Dakota, 1943-1944.

Stassen in Wisconsin, 1943

Stassen newspaper stories:

Minnesota, 1943-1945.

Nebraska, 1943-1944.

South Dakota, 1943-1944.

Wisconsin, 1943-1944.

Unfavorable comment, 1944.

Criticism, 1939-1944.

Statistics on Congressional votes, 1939-1941.

Youthful leaders, undated and 1939.

Ball, Senator Joseph H.:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1942-1944.

News clippings, 1944. 3 folders.

Speeches, articles, etc., 1942.

Fraser, Everett, "Why I am Supporting President Roosevelt," August 25, 1944.

Minnesota Republican State Convention, 1944.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Digital version, part 3

Digital version, part 4

Digital version, part 5

Digital version, part 6

News clippings, 1943-1944. 4 folders.

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Stassen Appreciation Day, South St. Paul, Minnesota:

Photographs, March 31, 1944.

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WMIN (St. Paul) radio broadcast, March 30, 1944. 1 master audio disc (16 minutes, 12 seconds): 33 1/3 rpm; 16 inches and 1 user audio file: MP3 (10.8 MB).

Digital version

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Motion picture, March 30, 1944. 1 master film reel (8 minutes): color; 16 mm and 1 user video file: MP4 (83.2 MB).

Digital version

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Thye, Edward, 1943-1944.

Political Activity, 1945-1946

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Minnesota state politics, 1946. 2 folders.

News clippings:

Miscellaneous, 1945.

Minnesota, March-April, 1946.

Cleveland, Ohio, March-April, 1946.

Newspaper excerpts and editorials:

Government, 1939-1940.

Labor, 1938-1946.

Minnesota campaigns, 1937-1943.

Republican Party, 1942-1946.

Tolerance/Goodwill, 1937-1946.

Wendell Willkie, 1940, 1946.

Polls, 1943-1946. 2 folders.

Schedules, undated and 1945-1946.

Speech requests: Mailed, 1945-1946. 2 folders.

Stassen, Articles on, 1940-1946.

Stassen: Editorial comment (outside Minnesota), undated and 1940-1946. 2 folders.

Steelman Report, October 1946.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Travel expenses, 1945-1947.

1946 congressional elections:

Canvassing reports: Correspondence, May-August 1946.

Alfred Lindley: Reports on Republican congressional filings, April-May 1946.

California: Murray Chotiner's reports, April-August 1946.

Illinois: Matteson's report, May 20, 1946.

Indiana, May-August 1946.

Kansas, August 1946.

Kentucky, May-September 1946.

Missouri, August-October 1946.

New Mexico, May-November 1946.

Ohio, undated and September 1946.

Oklahoma, July-August 1946.

Virginia, April-September 1946.

West Virginia, August-September 1946.

Battleground districts: California-Wyoming, 1946. 2 folders.

Primary candidates and results. 2 folders.

Congratulatory letters, August 1946.

Miscellaneous papers, March-October 1946.

1948 Presidential Campaign, 1939, 1945-1948

This section documents the central issues and major events of the campaign, as well as its organizational structure and administration. The campaign employed what was considered at the time a new strategy consisting of heavy campaigning and a stress on winning primaries rather than reliance on the support of party leaders. The first item in this section is a photocopied article published in Minnesota History, entitled " 'A Major Contender': Harold Stassen and the Politics of American Presidential Nominations," by Alec Kirby. Researchers are referred to this article for a thorough overview of the campaign.

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" 'A Major Contender': Harold Stassen and the Politics of American Presidential Nominations." Minnesota History, Winter 1996-97.

Stassen for President National Headquarters:

Correspondence:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers:

Undated and 1945-June 1948.

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June 1948-August 1948.

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August-October 1948.

Key men and women, 1945-1948:

A-Ha.

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He-Y.

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States, 1945-1948:

Correspondents include politicians, businessmen, campaign workers, and ordinary citizens reflecting the grassroots nature of Stassen's campaign. A sampling of prominent issues discussed would include labor, the United Nations, Israel and Palestine, European relief and the Marshall Plan, Russia, communism, housing, grain futures, the St. Lawrence Seaway, state primaries, and Catholicism. Speech and article requests, engagement clarifications, honorary memberships, autograph solicitations, non-monetary gifts, fund raising requests, and greeting cards are also included.

Alabama-California (A-V).

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California (W-Z)-Florida (A-R).

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Florida (S-Z)-Illinois(A-S).

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Illinois (S-Z)-Iowa (A-Z).

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Iowa (special)-Massachusetts (A-S).

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Massachusetts (T-Z)-Minnesota (A-D).

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Minnesota (E-N).

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Minnesota (O-Z and special)

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Minnesota (special)-Nebraska.

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Nevada-New York (A-B).

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New York (C-L).

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New York (Mc-Z and special).

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New York (special)-Ohio (A-G).

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Ohio (H-Z)-Oregon.

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Pennsylvania-Tennessee.

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Texas-Wisconsin (A-E).

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Wisconsin (F-Z)-District of Columbia (A-J).

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District of Columbia (K-Z)

Alabama-District of Columbia: Unfiled.

Canadian and foreign, 1945-1948.

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Administration:

Appointments:

Schedules, 1946-June 1948. 5 folders.

Meetings and luncheons: Attendance lists, 1946-1948.

Engagements and trips: Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1946-1948.

See also: Box 44 : Eastern States Headquarters : Travel.

Letters of appreciation, 1946-1948.

Programs, undated and 1939-1946. 4 folders.

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Programs, 1947-1948.

Western trip photograph album, February 15-28, 1948.

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Bumper stickers.

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Burger, Warren: Memos, 1948.

Campaign literature. 2 folders.

Digital version, What should we expect of the next President?

Digital version, America versus Communism in One World

Campaign meetings and conferences:

New York meeting, December 11, 1946.

New York luncheon: Off the record conference, September 8, 1947.

New York meeting: Agenda, September 8, 1947.

Men's meeting (St. Paul, Minnesota): Agenda, December 29, 1947.

Women's meeting: Women's City Club (St. Paul, Minnesota), December 30, 1947.

Meeting agenda, January 3-5, 1948.

Illinois conference, January 3, 1948.

New York conference, January 6, 1948.

Minneapolis conference: Agenda, March 14, 1948.

Conferences: Staff and state headquarters,

Confidential:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1944-1948.

Memo on campaign management, January 14, 1948.

Contacts:

Contact men, 1948.

Special contacts: U.S.

Directive of organization:

Wisconsin supplement.

New Hampshire supplement.

F.B.I.

Finances:

General, 1946-1948.

Income and expenses, 1946.

Minnesota Fund, 1944-1947.

Inter-office memos, reservations, etc., 1945-June 1948. 8 folders.

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Fund contributions compiled by Alfred Lindley: Alabama-Wyoming, 1948.

3 x 5 cards containing contributor names and addresses and the date and amount of contribution.

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Larson, Ed: Attention, undated and 1947-1948.

Liaison representatives:

Meeting: Questionnaire, July 19, 1946.

Meeting: Stassen home, June 25, 1947.

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Miscellaneous, 1946-1948. 3 folders.

Lists, undated and 1944-1948.

Miscellaneous individuals connected with the campaign.

Memoranda:

Preliminary inter-office, 1947.

Suggestions by Harold Stassen, undated and 1946-1947.

To state headquarters, undated and 1948.

Personnel:

Questionnaires.

Applications, 1945-1948. 3 folders.

Plan of Action, 1947.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Reference file.

Stassen, Harold: for attention and disposition, 1948.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Digital version, part 3

Digital version, part 4

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State Headquarters:

Memos, 1948.

California, southern headquarters: Correspondence, October 1947-May 1948. 3 folders.

Eastern States Headquarters: Correspondence, September 1947-June 1948. 5 folders.

Illinois for Stassen, October 1947-May 1948.

Missouri, 1946-1948.

Nebraska: Stassen for President, 1948.

New Hampshire: Stassen for President, 1947-1948.

North Dakota, 1946-1948.

Ohio for Stassen, 1948.

Oregon for Stassen, undated and 1948.

Pennsylvania: Stassen for President, 1947-1948.

Southern States headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, 1948.

Washington State headquarters, 1948.

Washington, D.C., 1948.

Wisconsin: Stassen for President, 1947-1948.

Earl Christmas files (Director of Publicity):

Acme Newspictures, 1947.

Arnolt, Fred W., 1947.

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Contact cards: Alabama-Wyoming.

3 x 5 index cards containing names, addresses, remarks, and quotations pertaining to Stassen supporters.

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Kaltenborn, H.V., 1948.

Kersten, Charles J., February 1948.

Labor relations.

Liaison, 1946.

Republican State Chairman, 1947.

San Francisco Conference comment, 1945.

Stassen-Dewey debate (Oregon), May 17, 1948.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Digital version, part 3

Stassen and Dewey photographs.

Stassen's statements.

Digital version

Survey, 1946.

State Campaigns:

State headquarters Staff, 1948.

Illinois, 1948.

Missouri, 1948.

Nebraska, 1948.

New Hampshire, 1948.: Statement, etc., 1948.

Oregon: Statement for campaign booklet, 1948.

Pennsylvania, 1948.

Washington, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1948.

Voting trends survey: Truman and GOP, 1945.

Republican Open Forums, 1946-1948. 6 folders.

Stassen-Dewey debate:

Correspondence, 1948. 3 folders.

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Opening statements and rebuttal, May 17, 1948.

Background material. 2 folders.

Subject files:

Administrative organization: National government., 1946.

American Veterans Committee (AVC), 1946-1947.

Agriculture, 1945-1948.

Arnall, Ellis: debate, 1946.

Atomic energy, undated and 1946-1947.

Ball, Senator Joseph H., 1946-1948.

Biographical sketch, 1946-1947.

Buttonholers for Stassen, 1948.

Campaign issues: Suggestions, 1947. 2 folders.

Coal strike, 1946.

College Republican Club, 1946.

Commodities investigation, 1947-1948. 2 folders.

Communism:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1947-1948. 4 folders.

Mundt Bill, 1948.

Congress, 80th.

Criticism, undated and 1938-1947.

Dewey, Thomas E., undated and 1944-1945.

Dewey-Warren Dollar Certificate Fund, 1948.

Editors: Letters to, 1948.

European Recovery Program and shipments to Russia: Research data, 1948.

Hoof and mouth disease, 1946-1948.

Labor, 1946-1948.

Life articles, 1948.

MacArthur, General Douglas, 1948.

Medical care / health, 1948.

Midwest Republican State Chairmen's Association Conference: Resolutions, May 10, 1947.

Military training, 1945.

Minnesota:

Comments on government of, 1946-1947.

State politics, undated and 1946-1948.

Missouri Valley Development Association, 1948.

Motion picture group: House Un-American Activities Committee investigation, 1947.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Digital version, part 3

Digital version, part 4

Digital version, part 5

Digital version, part 6

Movies project: Round Trip, 1947.

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NAM Committee: Walter M. Ringer correspondence, 1947-1948.

National Committee to Aid Strikers, 1946.

Negro material, 1946-1948.

Neighbors/Citizens for Stassen, 1947-1948. 4 folders.

Digital version, New York Herald Tribune Forum

Digital version, Orlando, Florida speech

Digital version, Military Training

Digital version, To the People of Minnesota

Digital version, Lincoln Day Address

Location

Box

142.F.15.5B

8

News clippings, out of state, February-April 1947. 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.A.9.4F

42

Office of Price Administration, 1946.

Palestine, Poll tax, 1948.

Plattes, Cy: "The People vs. Money Politics," June 1946.

Radio.

Republican Party:

Finance information from George Jones, 1946.

General, 1945-1947.

Minnesota Republican State Convention: Stassen for President resolution, 1946.

Officer lists, 1947-1948.

Republican Coordinating Committee, 1947.

Republican National Committee: Speakers Bureau, 1945-1948.

Republican State Central Committee ( St. Paul, Minn.), 1946-1948.

Republican Work Shop, 1945-1947.

Young Republicans, 1946-1948.

Russia, Shipment to, 1948.

Saltonstall, Senator R. (Massachusetts), Voting record of, 1947-1948.

Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 7, 1947.

Slander / Cranks, 1946-1948. 3 folders.

Small business and labor (Matteson).

SOPAC reunion, 1946.

Stalin-Stassen conference, 1947.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Digital version, part 3

Digital version, part 4

Digital version, part 5

Digital version, part 6

Stassen, Harold E.: Naval service memorandum.

Digital version

Stassen, Mrs., undated and 1947.

Articles and notes regarding Mrs. Stassen's life and character including a typescript copy of Brenda Ueland's column "What Goes On Here," published in the Minneapolis Times, October 20, 1947.

Taft, Robert A.:

Correspondence, March-May 1948.

News clippings, 1946-1948.

Taxation, undated and 1946-1948. 3 folders.

Television, 1948.

Location

Box

142.A.9.5B

43

Voter-specific groups:

Educators for Stassen, 1946-1948.

Insurance Men for Stassen, 1947.

Lawyers for Stassen, 1946-1948.

Salesmen for Stassen, 1947-1948.

Students for Stassen, 1948.

Veterans for Stassen, 1948.

Voter survey, June 1947.

Warren, Governor Earl, 1948.

West Virginia, 1948.

Wheat: Agriculture reciprocity, 1946.

Wisconsin primary, 1948.

Wofford, Harris, Jr.: "The Challenge of One World," 1947.

Women's Public Relations Committee, 1947.

Yugoslavia invitation, 1947.

Eastern states headquarters (Amos J. Peaslee's files):

Advertising, 1948.

Conference-Waldorf, February 5, 1948.

Convention, 23rd Republican National, June 26-28, 1948:

Correspondence, 1948.

Correspondence-New Jersey, 1948.

Documents, 1948.

Chairman's Letter, 1948.

Workers, 1948.

Delegates.

Correspondence:

New Jersey:

General, 1948.

Republican State Committee, 1948.

New York:

Headquarters, May-June 1948.

Republican State Committee, 1948.

Out of Area, 1948. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous: A-B, 1948. 2 folders.

Finance:

Correspondence, 1948.

Documents, 1948.

Lawyers for Stassen, 1948.

Life Magazine: Stassen story, February 1948.

MacArthur, Douglas:

Correspondence, 1948.

Documents, 1948.

Office memoranda, 1948.

Out of area: Correspondence, 1948. 2 folders.

Peaslee, Amos J. (Officer In Charge), 1945-1947. 3 folders.

Political data: 12 states, 1940 and 1944.

Polls:

Miscellaneous, 1948.

Roper, 1948.

Press, undated and 1948.

Press pictures, 1948.

Primaries:

New York, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1948.

Report, March 26, 1948.

Speakers Bureau: Where Stassen Stands, April 19, 1948.

Statements by Harold Stassen on a variety of campaign issues.

Stassen, Harold E.:

Correspondence with, 1948.

Speaking invitations, 1948.

Tentative schedule, March-April 1948.

Stassen supporters:

Correspondence, 1948.

Correspondence (New Jersey), 1948.

State offices:

Connecticut: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 3 folders.

Delaware: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Maine: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign records, January-June 1948. 2 folders.

Maryland: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, February-June 1948. 2 folders.

Location

Box

142.A.9.6F

44

Massachusetts:

Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 3 folders.

Republican National Convention delegates, 1948.

New Hampshire:

Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 2 folders.

Republican National Convention delegates, 1948.

New Jersey: Republican National Convention delegates, 1948.

New York:

Political situation: Documents, 1948.

Correspondence, January-June 1948. 2 folders.

New York Committee:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, January-June 1948.

Men's list, 1948.

Miscellaneous campaign documents, 1948.

Delegates: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Pennsylvania: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 2 folders.

Rhode Island: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Vermont: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Students for Stassen:

Documents, 1948

Correspondence:

New Jersey, 1948.

New York, 1948.

Television, 1948.

Thomas, Norman, 1948.

Travel:

See also: Box 36 : Stassen for President National Headquarters : Administration : Appointments : Engagements and trips.

Mid-November trip, 1947:

Miscellaneous, November 1947.

Midwest trip: General memos, November 1947.

Press releases, November 1947.

Western/Southern trip:

Miscellaneous, 1947-1948.

Detroit, November 1947.

Little Rock, Arkansas, November 1947.

New Orleans, November 1947.

Western trip, January 9-21, 1948.

New England trip, January 25-31, 1948:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, January 1948. 2 folders.

Schedule, January 1948.

Personnel, finances, and miscellaneous related papers, 1948.

Western trip, February 16-29, 1948.

Oregon trip, April 24, 1948.

Trip, May 1948.

Vandenburg.

Wallace, Henry: Documents, 1948

Neighbors/Citizens for Stassen:

General correspondence and miscellaneous related papers: Arizona-Georgia. 9 folders.

Location

Box

142.A.9.7B

45

Illinois-Wisconsin. 30 folders.

The Minnesota Letter, May 4, 1946-June 9, 1948.

The Minnesota Front, 1947.

Location

Box

148.F.3.3B

216

Mark Forgette files (Executive Director):

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1940, 1946-1952. 5 folders.

Principally incoming and outgoing correspondence of Forgette as Executive Director of Neighbors for Stassen; major correspondents include Daniel C. Gainey and Elmer J. Ryan.

Correspondence with Daniel C. Gainey, 1947-1954.

Membership cards in Stassen and Republican organizations, 1947-1950.

Neighbors for Stassen, 1946-1947. 2 folders.

Includes issuances and mimeographed materials.

Stassen's campaign trips, 1946-1948. 3 folders.

Nebraska direct mail, 1948.

Ohio direct mail, 1948.

Oregon direct mail, 1948.

Wisconsin campaign kickoff, 1947.

Wisconsin campaign, March-April 1948.

Wisconsin county reports, 1948.

Stassen campaign facts, 1947-1948.

Stassen issue statements, 1947-1948.

Stassen printed materials, 1947-1952.

Location

Box

142.G.8.5B-2

46

Contact card files, 1948:

Business leaders: A-Z.

Minnesota: Ada-Redwing.

Location

Box

142.G.8.6F-1

47

Minnesota: Redwood Falls-Zumbrota.

Minneapolis: A-Z (missing Cy-G).

Location

Box

142.G.8.5B-1

38

St. Paul: A-Z.

Location

Box

142.A.9.7B

45

Subject files (A):

Agriculture.

Atomic bomb, etc.

Ball, Joseph H.

Baptist.

Bibliography.

Budget.

Candidacy (statement and comment).

Cartoon.

C.I.O.

Citizens for Stassen:

Organization: Miscellaneous correspondence and related papers.

Speeches.

Articles.

Commodity speculation (Pauley).

Communism.

Conservation.

Controls.

Convention, 23rd National Republican, 1948.

Dewey-Stassen debate, May 17, 1948.

D.F.L.

Dictator.

Displaced persons.

Drummond, Roscoe: articles.

Economics.

Education.

Election (primary): Minnesota, 1946.

Election (primary): Miscellaneous, 1946.

Election (general): Minnesota, 1946.

Election (general): Miscellaneous, 1946.

Esther Stassen.

Fair employment practices.

Food.

Foreign aid and foreign policy.

Forums.

General comments.

Location

Box

142.A.9.8F

48

Health.

Headquarters bulletin, 1948.

Hennepin County committee.

Housing.

Inflation.

Labor.

Letters.

Liberalism.

Liberalism: Reactionary.

Mackinac Conference, July 1945.

Magazines: Miscellaneous.

Middle West.

Military.

Minnesota: Convention: State issues.

Miscellaneous. 2 folders.

National Committee.

National delegates.

Navy.

Neighbors for Stassen.

New blood for G.O.P.

New York Times.

Other candidates.

P.A.C.

Party politics.

Party system.

Personal.

Polls: (Gallup, Roper, Minnesota, etc.).

Presidential nomination.

Press comments.

Press (freedom of).

Price control and rationing.

Public lands.

Racial.

"Reaping the Red Whirlwind," August 15, 1950.

Recent material, 1949-1951.

Reciprocal trade.

Religion.

Rent control.

Republican Party.

Republican policy.

Resume of correspondence with H.E.S., July 16, 1948.

Role of the voter.

Russia.

St. Cloud.

San Francisco Conference and H.E.S.

Small business.

Speaking.

Stalin-Stassen.

Stassen's new method of campaigning.

Stassen's stands.

Stassen's Washington office.

State Central Committee.

Taft.

Taxes and budget.

Trip abroad, 1947.

United Nations.

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Digital version, part 3

Vandenberg, Arthur.

Veterans.

Warren, Earl.

Wisconsin.

Women.

World federation.

World peace-unity.

World trade.

Writing.

Youth.

Subject files (B):

Bankers for Stassen, 1947.

Baptist situation, 1947.

Carleton letters, 1947-1948.

Clergy, 1948.

Clubs.

Convention, 1948 National Republican:

Housing.

Location

Box

142.A.10.1B

49

Telegrams. 2 folders.

Druggists, undated and 1948.

Eisenhower: William Burnham.

European trip, 1947.

Fund drive: Lists completed: Certificates, cards, acknowledgments, 1948. 5 folders.

Gale, Mrs. Richard P., undated and 1947.

General, 1947.

Group directors: Form letters, 1946-1948.

Group leaders, 1947.

Gyro Club, 1947.

Hart, Earl E., 1947-1948.

Heffelfinger, Mrs. F. Peavey, 1947.

Hegman, Mrs. Ralph, 1946.

Hughes, Fred, 1948.

Investment group, 1947.

Insurance group, 1947.

Lawyers for Stassen, undated and 1947.

LeVander, Bernard, 1947.

Liaison Committee, 1947.

Lien law, 1946-1947.

Lindley, Alfred, 1946-1948.

McCarthy, Joseph:

Wisconsin Letter, March 31, 1948.

Speech on behalf of delegates for Stassen: Milwaukee Journal Radio Forum, April 3, 1948.

Miscellaneous, 1947-1948.

Milwaukee kick off, 1947.

Minnesota groups, 1947-1948. 2 folders.

Mitchell, Mrs. Ruth, 1947-1948.

Neighbors reports

On Wisconsin, 1948.

Old form 1.

Paul Revere Riders of '48:

S.I. Olson: Correspondence and lists, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1948. 2 folders.

Polls file.

Press announcements, 1947.

Printed matter:

Citizens for Stassen mailings (form letters, etc.), undated and 1948. 2 folders.

Mimeographed material.

Samples:

Mimeographed notices and forms. 2 folders.

Stassen letters, undated and 1948.

Location

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142.A.10.2F

50

procedures, Office.

Publicity, 1946.

Radio, 1946-1947.

Republican Open Forums, 1947.

Republican workshop, 1947-1948.

Salesmen group, 1947-1948. 2 folders.

Service men's file.

Stassen, Harold E.:

General, 1947.

Correspondence, schedules, flash memos, etc., undated and 1948.

Letter to Jay Cooke regarding taxes, April 30, 1948.

Letters to Stassen: Name directory.

Arranged by state with qualifying quotes and descriptions.

Quotations from letters about H.E.S.

State Central Committee, 1947.

Students for Stassen, 1948.

Washington office, 1947.

Wells, Miss Marguerite, 1947.

Wells, S.W., 1947.

Wisconsin forms: Membership and volunteer, 1948.

Wisconsin R.E.A. letter, April 1, 1948.

Young Republicans, 1947.

Republican Open Forums:

Administration:

Correspondence, 1946-1948.

Legal memoranda, 1946.

Organization charts and flow charts.

What Do Republican Open Forums Do?

As of November 6, 1946: Critical analysis.

Post office business.

Promotion and publicity:

Press releases (master file), 1946-1947.

Promotion and form letters, 1946-1948.

Organization and promotion suggestions, 1946.

Promotion ideas, undated and 1946.

Publicity correspondence: Radio, 1946-1947.

Finances:

Budget and cost estimates, 1946-1947.

Petty cash reports, 1946-1948.

Costs: Cross section, 1946-1947.

Inventories: Personal property taxes, 1947.

Contribution, 1946-1948.

Fat Cats, 1946.

Forum topics:

Subject polls, 1947-1948.

Discussion kits, 1946-1948.

Newsletter:

Cross Section, 1946-1948.

Artists: Ralph Ballentine and others.

Article material: Rebuffed manuscripts, undated and 1946.

Columns and their editors.

Copyrights, 1946-1947.

Editorial material (dormant).

Elmer Ryan files:

Mitch Choban: Home Town Neighbors, 1948.

Forms and literature, 1948.

Memos:

By E.J.R. (Elmer J. Ryan).

E.J.R. and Harold Stassen (H.E.S), 1946-1948.

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1947-1949.

Location

Box

142.A.10.3B

51

Miscellaneous papers, 1947-1952. 2 folders.

Minnesota elections, 1930-1947.

Neighbors for Stassen, 1946-1947. 2 folders.

Digital version, Transcript of 1947 Conference

Digital version, Eastern States Exposition

Digital version, Straight from the Shoulder Address

Digital version, Highland Park Men's Republican Club

Digital version, Iowa State Bankers Association Address

Polls:

Ohio poll by Kelly, 1948.

Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin Polls, January 1948.

Miscellaneous.

Stassen: Consultation, etc., August-September, 1948.

Stassen finance county drive,

Stassen schedule, 1947-1948.

Arkansas trip, 1948.

Georgia, 1947-1948.

Louisiana, 1947-1948.

Mississippi, 1946-1948. 2 folders.

Oregon, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1946-1948.

Republican National Committee (RNC):

Correspondence, September 1946-1948.

The Chairman's Letter, February 1, 1946-November 15, 1947.

Labor Press Digest, January-August 1946.

Miscellaneous printed matter and related papers, undated and 1945-1948.

Minnesota Republican State Central Committee, 1946-1948.

Convention, 23rd National Republican, 1948.

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1948. 2 folders.

Nomination speech for Stassen: Walter H. Judd, June 23, 1948.

National election results: Alabama-Wyoming, 1938-1944. 2 folders.

Location

Box

142.A.10.4F

52

Delegates:

Delegate lists, June 4 (incomplete) and June 14, 1948.

Delegates to Republican National Convention: Lists, 1948.

Alabama-Wyoming: Notebooks, 1948.

Information on individual delegate's choice of candidates, personal and political background, connections, and factors influencing their decisions.

Minnesota delegates, 1947-1948.

Regional reports sent to Warwick Hotel Headquarters, 1948.

State congressional district maps: Voting records, 1948.

Includes color coded maps representing each district's voting record, a list of senators and representatives, and the results of presidential balloting in 1940.

Statistics.

News clippings.

Supporters: Mailing lists, July-August 1948.

Post-Convention thank you letters, July-August, 1948:

A-B.

Location

Box

142.A.10.5B

53

C-Z.

European tour:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1945-1947. 2 folders.

Austria.

Belgium.

Czechoslovakia.

Denmark.

England.

Finland.

France.

Germany.

Greece.

Hungary.

Location

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142.A.10.6F

54

Italy.

Norway.

Poland.

Russia.

Sweden.

Switzerland.

Turkey.

Yugoslavia.

Notes, February 23-April 22, 1947. 4 folders.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

3

Photographs, 1946-1948. 2 folders.

Location

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142.A.10.6F

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Press conferences, 1946-1948. 2 folders.

Statements to the press, November 1947-October 1948.

Location

Folder

++6

212

Saturday Evening Post advertisement, September 7, 1946.

Speech background material:

General, 1946-1948. 5 folders.

U.S. economy, 1947. 2 folders.

Urban redevelopment, 1947.

Research, 1947-1948. 2 folders.

News clippings:

Stassen, Articles on, 1942-1948. 2 folders.

Scrapbook, 1946-1948. 2 folders.

Location

Box

142.A.10.7B

55

1948 Campaign by state: scrapbook. 3 folders.

Alabama-Wisconsin, 1946-1948. 28 folders.

General, 1946-1948. 2 folders.

Location

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142.A.10.8F

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General, 1947-1948, 12 folders.

Grain: Inside trading, 1947-1948.

Wisconsin, 1947.

Tour: Taft-Stassen / Dewey-Stassen, January 14-29, 1948

Western tour and New Hampshire primary, February-March 1948.

Pennsylvania primary and Oregon, 1948.

Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries, 1948

Miscellaneous notes taken by Stassen. 2 folders.

Political Activity, 1948-1951

Location

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142.A.11.1B

57

Correspondence:

The Alpha, Key Men and Women, and States and International series are each filed alphabetically by correspondent in approximate chronological order, comprised of sets for 1948-1950, 1950, and 1951.

Recurring topics include various requests made of Stassen as president of the University of Pennsylvania including speaking and writing assignments, book reviews and sales solicitations, and support of various religious and peace organizations. Prominent political issues include the Marshall Plan, Korea, and Communism in general; NATO and American military troops abroad; Truman and MacArthur; American isolationist versus internationalist ideologies; private versus socialized medicine; post-war economic security; and Republican politics including Stassen's potential presidential campaign in 1952.

Alpha:

A-Y, 1949-1950.

Miscellaneous unfiled; A-He, 1951.

Location

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142.A.11.2F

58

Ho-Z, 1951.

Key men and women:

Aiken-Hall, 1948-1950.

Location

Box

142.A.11.3B

59

Hallanan-Youngdahl, 1948-1950.

Aiken-Gallup, 1950.

Location

Box

142.A.11.4F

60

Gamble-Zimmerman, 1950.

Adams-Johnson, 1951.

Location

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142.A.11.5B

61

Jones-Youngdahl, 1951.

States and international:

Alabama-Indiana, 1948-1950.

Location

Box

142.A.11.6F

62

Iowa-New York State, 1948-1950.

Location

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142.A.11.7B

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New York City -Wyoming; No address, 1948-1950.

Location

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142.A.11.8F

64

Alabama-Minnesota (A-N), 1950.

Location

Box

142.A.12.1B

65

Minnesota (O-Z)-Ohio, 1950.

Location

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142.A.12.2F

66

Oklahoma-Wyoming, 1950.

Africa-Canada, 1951.

Location

Box

142.A.12.3B

67

Colorado-New Hampshire, 1951.

Location

Box

142.A.12.4F

68

New Jersey-Pennsylvania, 1951.

Location

Box

142.A.12.5B

69

Puerto Rico-Wyoming, 1951

Subject:

These files were originally filed with the set of Key Men and Women correspondence. For ease of access, an artificial subject set was created.

American Committee on United Europe, February 1951.

Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation: Sponsoring committee, 1950.

Asia, 1949.

Atlantic Bank, 1949.

Atlantic Pact, 1949, 1952.

Austria, 1950.

The Joe Ball Washington Labor Letter, 1949.

Bills pending in Washington, 1950.

British coal industry, 1949.

British currency reform, 1950.

British medical program, 1948-1951.

British National Health Service, 1949.

British production, 1950.

British public schools and religious education, 1950.

Campaign material: Battleground, etc., 1949-1950. 3 folders.

Correspondence and lists of nominees related to the Republican campaign strategy during the 1950 congressional and gubernatorial elections.

Capitol Hill Associates, Inc., 1950.

China, 1949-1951. 2 folders.

China situation, 1949-1951. 2 folders.

Civil Rights and Fair Employment Practice Commission, 1950-1952.

Churchill (books), 1950.

Columbia Broadcasting System, 1950.

Committee on the Present Danger, January-March 1951.

Communism, 1949-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.12.6F

70

Jay Cooke campaign, 1950. 2 folders.

Correspondence and speeches related to Stassen's endorsement and active support of Jay Cooke's Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign.

Crank letters, 1949-1951. 5 folders.

Dictaphone copies (outgoing correspondence), February-November 1951.

Economics, 1948-1952.

Education, 1948-1951.

Eisenhower mailing:

In early February 1951 Stassen sent a mass mailing urging individuals to support the American policy and program recommended to the Congress and American people by General Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander of the newly organized NATO forces. Both Eisenhower and Stassen advocated American participation in the rearmament of Western Europe including the assignment of U.S. ground forces.

The bulk of the material consists of letters sent in response to the mailing stating the respondent's opposition to the Eisenhower letter.

Letter upholding Eisenhower's Policy, 1951.

Includes draft and final copies of Stassen's original letter (February 1951) and a second letter (May 2, 1951) sent to Republican leaders who responded to the earlier letter. Copies of speeches (1950-1951) Stassen made related to this issue are also included.

Eisenhower letter-opposed:

Arizona-Wyoming (Except Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania), 1951. 2 folders.

Illinois: Alpha, 1951. 3 folders.

Indiana: Alpha, 1951. 2 folders.

Ohio: Alpha, 1951.

Pennsylvania: Alpha, 1951.

European Recovery Program, 1949-1950.

European Union, 1950.

Farmer-Labor, [1948-1951].

Form correspondence, 1951.

Formal opening of New York and Washington headquarters (Stassen for President), November 1951.

Germany, 1948, 1952.

Housing, undated and 1949.

Income tax laws, 1951.

India, 1949-1951.

Location

Box

142.A.12.7B

71

Labor, 1949-1950.

Letters of recommendation, 1949-1951.

Lincoln Day, February 1950.

Mailings, 1950.

Man Was Meant to Be Free:

Correspondence regarding the publication of Amos Peaslee's selection of Stassen's speeches.

Amos Peaslee, February-October 1951. 2 folders.

General correspondence, September-November 1951.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation address, 1949-1950. 2 folders.

Includes the text of an address made by Winston Churchill as well as correspondence regarding Stassen's speech.

National Analysts, Inc. (Cy Coggins), 1950.

National defense, 1948-1951.

Navy (United States), 1949, 1951.

New Zealand and Australia, 1949.

Nkrumah, Kwame (African Gold Coast), 1951.

Office equipment and supplies. 1949-1950.

Pardon parole file, 1951.

Pennsylvania state government, 1949-1951.

Personal papers, 1948-1952.

Philadelphia Bulletin Forum, August-September 1951.

Philadelphia city elections, 1950.

La Prensa (daily newspaper Argentina), 1951.

Press (letters from and to, lists), 1950.

Primaries (1952), 1951.

Publicker, Philip: Memo, 1951.

Re-elections letter (congratulations and replies), 1948. 2 folders.

Republican Party:

Foreign affairs policy, 1950.

National Republican Committee, 1948-1951. 4 folders.

National Republican Congressional Committee, 1950.

Republican National Convention:

1948 delegates.

1952 convention, May 1951.

Republican Advance Movement, 1950.

Republican lists for addressing, 1949-1951. 2 folders.

Young Republicans, 1949, 1951. 3 folders.

Requests for autographs and photographs, October 1950-June 1952.

Roper, Elmo: "Where the People Stand," January-July 1951.

Russia, 1948-1950.

Schweitzer, Albert, 1951-1952.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1949.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Statement on Asiatic economic policy, [1950].

Senate testimony regarding conference on Asiatic policy, October 1951. 2 folders.

Stassen posters, 1948-1949.

State Department:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1949-1952.

Meeting with Ambassador Philip C. Jessup, 1949.

State taxes, 1950.

United Nations, 1950-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.12.8F

72

University and related subjects, 1950-1952.

University of Pennsylvania:

Faculty meetings, 1951-1952.

Four Years at Pennsylvania, September 17, 1948-January 19, 1953: A Report to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 1953.

News clippings, 1948, 1952.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

3

Photographs:

Portraits: Harold E. Stassen, 1948-1952.

Engagements and speaking events, undated and 1948-1952. 2 folders.

An original photograph of Stassen with Frank Lloyd Wright has been placed in the MHS reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). A photocopy of this photograph remains in the collection.

Location

Box

142.A.12.8F

72

U.S. medical program, 1948-1952. 2 folders.

Water routes and conservation, 1952.

Wolverton health bills, 1950-1951.

World tour, December 3, 1950-January 9, 1951:

Responding to invitations presented to him by Asian leaders Stassen took a leave of absence from the University of Pennsylvania in order to travel through Asia and Africa and around the world. In a statement issued December 2, 1950 Stassen indicated that he was making the tour "_ in the hope that I might be enabled to make some increased future contribution to the hopes of world peace." and stated that the purpose for the trip was "_ listening and looking rather than talking, for studying rather than news."

Trip highlights included visits with several prominent international figures including General Douglas MacArthur; India's Prime Minister Jawaharial Nehru; Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion in Israel; and Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

Correspondence, 1950-1951. 2 folders.

Itinerary, December 2, 1950-January 9, 1951.

Diary, December 3, 1950-January 9, 1951.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

3

Photographs, 1950-1951.

Original photographs of Stassen visiting Dr. Albert Schweitzer at Lambarene have been placed in the MHS reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). Photocopies of these photographs remain in the collection.

Location

Box

142.A.12.8F

72

Report, January 15, 1951.

Stassen's presented his report of the tour in an address entitled "Round the World Report: Victory without War" broadcast nationally over the American Broadcasting Network. The report outlines Stassen's observations regarding Communism and the world situation and his belief that the chief objective of American foreign policy should be "_ to win a victory, for civilization and freedom, over Communist imperialism, without a world war."

Digital version, part 1

Digital version, part 2

Digital version, part 3

Thank you letters, 1951.

News clippings, 1950-1951.

Youngdahl, Luther: Minnesota Gubernatorial campaign, 1950.

News clippings:

Before November 2, 1948.

After November 2, 1948.

Convention (1952), 1951.

Crusade for Freedom, 1951.

Foreign policy, 1951.

International newspaper clippings, articles, etc., 1948-1949.

Military service, 1951.

Minnesota, 1948-1949. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous G.O.P., 1948-1950. 2 folders.

Red aggression (Stalin, Korea, etc.), 1951.

Republican policy, program, etc., 1951.

Stassen, Harold, 1949-1950. 2 folders.

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Box

142.A.13.1B

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Mrs. Harold E. Stassen:

This portion of the collection reflects the activities of Esther Glewwe Stassen while Harold Stassen served as president of the University of Pennsylvania and as a member of the Eisenhower administration. Included are correspondence and subject files documenting her club and civic organization memberships, her social engagements, and household matters.

Correspondence, A-Z, 1948, 1957.

Subject files, 1946-1956

Acorn Club, 1949-1953.

Camp Fire Girls, 1948-1956.

Campaign data relative to Mrs. Stassen, 1946-1948.

Children's concerts (Academy of Music), 1949-1950.

Christmas, 1949.

Church affairs, 1953-1954.

Clubs and organizations:

Pennsylvania, 1948-1950.

Washington, 1953-1956.

Community Chest, 1949.

Contributions, 1949.

Cosmopolitan Club, 1949-1954.

Delta Zeta, 1949-1950.

Entertainment:

Miscellaneous events, 1949-1951.

University lists, 1950.

Undergraduate Council dinner, May 3, 1950

Women Senate dinner, May 8, 1950.

University Student Council, May 11, 1950.

Dinner for Trustees, June 12, 1950.

Commencement luncheon, June 14, 1950.

Dinner honoring Dr. and Mrs. G. Holmes Perkins, October 3, 1950.

Dinner honoring Dr. and Mrs. Knutson and Commencement, February 9-10, 1951.

Dinner honoring Dr. Chester Barnard and Joseph Willets, February 19, 1951.

Student dinners at Stassen home, May 19, 26, and 28, 1952.

Trustees dinner, June 2, 1952.

Dinner in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Henry M. Wriston, June 17, 1952.

Commencement, June 18, 1952.

Faculty Tea Club, 1948-1952.

Hospital Board, 1949.

League of Women Voters, 1953-1954.

Memorandum (to Mrs. Stassen from Millie J. Coleman), 1948-1956.

National Conference of Christians and Jews Women's Division, 1949-1950.

News clippings regarding arrival in Washington, 1953-1954.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association, 1949-1950.

Recipes, 1953-1955.

Republican Women of Pennsylvania, 1948-1950.

Residence:

Household affairs, 1948-1950.

Home matters:

University of Pennsylvania (8212 St. Martin's Lane), 1948-1953.

3312 R Street, Washington, D.C., 1952-1953.

105 E. Blackthorn Street, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 1953.

Location

Box

142.A.9.1B

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Schedules, 1950-1952.

Second Baptist Church of Germantown, 1949-1950.

Springside School, 1948-1949.

University activities and invitations, 1949-1950.

William Penn School, 1948-1950.

1952 Presidential Campaign, 1950-1952