I. Early Senate Office, 1946-1958
- Extent:
- 42 box(es) and (21 linear feet)
- Scope and content:
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This series includes clippings, reports, printed materials, press releases, speeches and Talmadge's personal notes on various subjects. There is material relating to the budget, communism, the county unit system, education, the Eisenhower administration, farm legislation, foreign affairs, Georgia history, Marvin Griffin, Rule XXII, Melvin Thompson and the two governor controversy in Georgia, the Truman administration and the United Nations.
These papers bridge the period that Herman Talmadge was governor to his first few years as a United States Senator. The press office subseries (1957-1960) and the gubernatorial series coincide with the early senate office subseries. Arrangement is alphabetical by subject.
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