ROBERT S. KERR COLLECTION
POLITICAL/CAMPAIGN SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory
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Presidential Campaign of 1952 (continued)

F 1: Out of State Correspondence (1952) New Jersey. A-Z.

F 2: Out of State Correspondence (1952) New Mexico. A-Z.

Correspondents include Clinton P. Anderson, Dennis Chavez, and Joseph M. Montoya.

F 3: Out of State Correspondence (1952) New York. A-H.

F 4: Out of State Correspondence (1952) New York. I-R.

Correspondents include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

F 5: Out of State Correspondence (1952) New York. S-Z.

F 6: Out of State Correspondence (1952) North Carolina.  A-Z.

Correspondents include Clyde R. Hoey

F 7: Out of State Correspondence (1952) North Dakota. A-Z.

Correspondents include Abner Larson.

F 8: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Ohio. A-Z.

F 9: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Oregon. A-Z.

Correspondents include Carl V. Rice. Also included is the booklet, Oregon Democrat; list of Democrats contacted in Oregon; questions from the Oregon Farm Bureau with Kerr's responses.

F 10: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Pennsylvania. A-M.

F 11: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Pennsylvania. N-Z.

F 12: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Rhode Island. A-Z.

Correspondents include Dennis J. Roberts, governor.

F 13: Out of State Correspondence (1952) South Carolina. A-Z.

Correspondents include Burnet R. Maybank.

F 14: Out of State Correspondence (1952) South Dakota. A-Z.

F 15: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Tennessee. A-Z.

Correspondents include Charles H. Nash.

F 16: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Texas. A-K.

F 17: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Texas. L-Z.

F 18: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Utah. A- Z.

F 19: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Vermont. A-Z.

F 20: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Virginia. A-Z.

F 21: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Washington. A-Z.

F 22: Out of State Correspondence (1952) West Virginia. A-Z.

Correspondents include Okey L. Patteson, governor.

F 23: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Wisconsin.  A-Z.

F 24: Out of State Correspondence (1952) Wyoming. A-Z.

F 25: Democratic National Committee (1953).

Correspondents include Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. and Harry S. Truman.

F 26: National Political Colleagues (1952-1953).

Correspondents include Ed Edmondson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Maury Maverick, Richard McEntire, William A. Purtell, Stuart Symington, Frank E. McKinney (chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Finance Committee), and Harry S. Truman. Also includes letter to Clark Clifford.

F 27: Oklahoma Political Colleagues (1953).

Folder includes correspondence with various Oklahoma legislators and government officials. Correspondents include Wilburn Cartwright, Toby Morris, and Elizabeth Whetsel, co-chair of the Democratic State Central Committee of Oklahoma; pamphlet Know Your Liberties, Know Your Courts Week.

F 28: Young Democrats (1953).

Senate Campaign of 1954

F 29: Advertising and Business Correspondence (1954).

F 30: Democratic National Committee and Party (1954).

F 31: Election Returns (1954).

Includes the certificate of election of Kerr to Senate which was signed by Johnston Murray.

F 32: Farm Support (1954).

Includes messages from various county, state and national farm organizations supporting Kerr.

F 33: Form Letters (1954).

Many of these form letters were sent to voters of specific counties to announce an appearance by Kerr.

F 34: Labor Correspondence (1954).

Correspondence is from various labor groups and officials either offering support or congratulations to Kerr. Correspondents include Walter Reuther and Jim Hughes, the Commissioner of Labor.

F 35: Military Correspondence (1954).

Correspondents include various individuals in the military. There are also some letters which refer to the Republican Party possibly bringing Douglas MacArthur to Oklahoma to campaign against Kerr.

F 36 Miscellaneous (1954).

Includes lists; campaign leaflets for Kerr and Raymond Gary; correspondence from personnel at the Kerr campaign headquarters; information on the African-American appointments made by Kerr; and a typescript on Kerr's primary victory written by Hunter Martin.

F 37: National Political Colleagues (1954).

Most of the correspondence is from U.S. Senate colleagues congratulating Kerr. Correspondents include Alben W. Barkley, John W. Bricker, Clark M. Clifford, John D. Dingell, J. Allen Frear, Albert Gore, Theodore Francis Green, Sen. Carl Hayden, Averell Harriman, Thomas C. Hennings, Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, Josh Lee, Alton Lennon, Scott W. Lucas, Mike Mansfield, Wayne Morse, James E. Murray, Herbert R. O'Conor, Frederick G. Payne, Claude Pepper, Carl Rice, A. Willis Robertson, Adlai E. Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Edward J. Thye, J. W. Trimble, and Victor Wickersham.

F 38: Oklahoma Colleagues (1954).

Most of this correspondence is from current or former Oklahoma politicians. Correspondents include Wilburn Cartwright, E. T. Dunlap, Dial Currin, Stanley T. Synar, George Miskovsky, John Davis (chief of the Creek Nation), Jed Johnson, W. J. Holloway, Tom Steed, George Howard Wilson and Harry L. S. Halley.

F 39: Oklahoma State Democratic Committee and Party (1954).

F 40: Opposition (1954).

Includes material on Oklahoma Republican Party; a few items on candidates who opposed Kerr; and court documents concerning a protest on the election filed by David C. Shappard, who had been a candidate in the Democratic primary.

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