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1	Title:	Republican National Committee Report
	Creator:	Republican National Committee
	Dates:	June 6, 1924
	Abstract:	The collection consists of a report entitled "Hearings on Contests by the Republican National Committee for the Purpose of Making up Temporary Roll for the 1924 Convention," which was held in Cleveland, Ohio. Involved in these contests were Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and the 3rd District of Georgia.
	Call #:	MS 2969
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Republican National Committee (U.S.) \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| Political conventions -- United States. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929.
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2	Title:	James A. Briggs Scrapbooks
	Creator:	Briggs, James A.
	Dates:	1830-1887
	Abstract:	James A. Briggs was an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, and New York State; editor of the Cleveland True Democrat; special correspondent to several newspapers, including the Cleveland Leader; temperance advocate; and political supporter of Abraham Lincoln. The collection consists of two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, letters, proclamations, pictures, and notes written by Briggs, concerning Briggs' career as an attorney and journalist.
	Call #:	MS 0882
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 volumes)
	Subjects:	Briggs, James A., 1811-1889. \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Political activity. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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3	Title:	Martin R. Hoke Congressional Papers
	Creator:	Hoke, Martin R.
	Dates:	1976-1996
	Abstract:	Martin R. Hoke is an Ohio Republican who served in the United States House of Representatives for two consecutive terms from 1992-1996. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, he attended Western Reserve Academy and Amherst College. He earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1980. Hoke won Congressional office in Ohio's 10th District in 1992. During his terms as representative, Hoke was a strong supporter of term limits on representatives and advocated a balanced budget. He sponsored or co-sponsored several bills, including the Fan Freedom and Protection Act, the Balanced Budget Act, and Contingent Fee Amendment. Hoke was defeated by Dennis Kucinich in his 1996 re-election campaign. The collection consists of bill information, campaign records, correspondence, expense reports, legislative activity guides, legislative profiles, newspaper clippings, press releases, speeches, volunteer information, and voting records.
	Call #:	MS 5056
	Extent:	4.00 linear feet (5 containers and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Hoke, Martin R. \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| Legislators -- United States. \| Legislators -- Ohio. \| Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Budget deficits -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Term limits (Public office) -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Campaign funds -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Ohio -- Law and legislation.
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4	Title:	Burke Aaron Hinsdale Papers
	Creator:	Hinsdale, Burke Aaron
	Dates:	1854-1901
	Abstract:	Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1837-1900) was an educator who served as President of Hiram College, Superintendent of the Cleveland Public Schools, and professor at the University of Michigan. The collection consists of correspondence, student essays, notes, receipts, articles, clippings, biographical material, and other papers concerning Hinsdale's student days, his positions at Hiram College, the Cleveland Public Schools, and the University of Michigan, his association with James A. Garfield, and his writing of The Works of James Abram Garfield (1882-83), containing information on Garfield's early life and the Republican convention of 1880. Includes letters of condolence to Mrs. Hinsdale on her husband's death.
	Call #:	MS 1772
	Extent:	2.30 linear feet (6 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900. \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900. Works of James Abram Garfield, 1882-1883. \| Hiram College. \| University of Michigan. \| Cleveland Public Schools. \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| College presidents -- Ohio. \| College teachers -- Michigan. \| Political conventions -- United States. \| School superintendants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
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5	Title:	Frances Payne Bolton Oral History Interviews
	Creator:	Bolton, Frances Payne
	Dates:	1989
	Abstract:	Frances Payne Bingham Bolton was a Republican congresswoman from Ohio's 22nd congressional district. Bolton served on the committees of Indian Affairs (1940) and Foreign Affairs (1941-1968), participating in foreign aid hearings and conducting study trips abroad, including a trip to the Middle East in 1947 and one to Africa in 1955. She served as a congressional delegate to the United Nations Eighth General Assembly, and was involved with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and helped organize the Accokee Foundation to protect the Potomac shoreline across from Mount Vernon. Mrs. Bolton had a long-time interest in nursing and nursing education and provided funds to establish the nursing school at Western Reserve University, as well as founding the Payne Fund to assist a variety of educational and other charitable programs. The collection consists of transcripts of 16 interviews conducted with individuals who had known and worked with Frances Payne Bolton in her capacity as United States Representative from Ohio's 22nd District (1940-1968), as a member of the Republican Party, in her family and personal interests, or in her many philanthropic and advocacy endeavors. The interviews were conducted in 1989 by Leslie Anne Solotko as part of the project conducted at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, to process the papers of Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton (MS 3943). Questions focused on Mrs. Bolton's personality and career; and her political, family, business, and personal interests. Interviewees included Viola Anderson, David K. Ford, Zelma George, Donald W. Gropp, Alice Hansen, Robert E. Hughes, Theodore F. Owen, H. Chapman Rose, Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, John Burns Simpson, Margaret Chase Smith, Robert Ware Strauss, Charles A. Vanik, Helen Wallace, Paul W. Walter, and Fred White.
	Call #:	MS 4616
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977. \| Bolton family. \| United States. Congress. House. \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| Accokeek Foundation. \| Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. \| Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. \| Republican Party (Ohio) \| Women legislators -- United States. \| Legislators -- United States. \| Nursing -- United States. \| Women in politics -- United States. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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6	Title:	James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series III
	Creator:	Garfield, James A. Family
	Dates:	1859-1990
	Abstract:	James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, election tallies, essays, book inscriptions, legal papers, corporate records, scholarly and political notes, a minute book, scrapbooks, receipts, invitations, sympathy cards, calling cards, newspaper clippings, notebooks, pamphlets, phrenology charts, a eulogy, a presentation album, a resolution, a lock of hair, broadsides, programs, poems, sheet music, drawings, lithographs, and paintings.
	Call #:	MS 4790
	Extent:	3.10 linear feet (3 containers and 10 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. \| Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. \| Garfield family. \| Rudolph family. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| Garfield & Garfield (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Presidents -- United States -- Family. \| Political campaigns -- United States. \| Mourning customs -- United States.
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7	Title:	Frances Payne Bingham Bolton Papers
	Creator:	Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham
	Dates:	1921-1985
	Abstract:	Frances Payne Bingham Bolton (1885-1977) was a Republican congresswoman from Ohio's 22nd congressional district. Bolton served on the committees of Indian Affairs (1940) and Foreign Affairs (1941-1968), participating in foreign aid hearings and conducting study trips abroad, including a trip to the Middle East in 1947 and one to Africa in 1955. She served as a congressional delegate to the United Nations Eighth General Assembly, and was involved with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and helped organize the Accokee Foundation to protect the Potomac shoreline across from Mount Vernon. Mrs. Bolton had a long-time interest in nursing and nursing education and provided funds to establish the nursing school at Western Reserve University, as well as founding the Payne Fund to assist a variety of educational and other charitable programs. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, publications, clippings, etc. generated during, or pertaining to, Bolton's service in Congress. Included are bills and hearings, roll calls and voting records; Foreign Affairs & Indian Affairs committees papers, correspondence, reports, and geographical, foreign aid, embassy and State Dept. files; reports, memoranda, and printed material relating to the deptartments of State, Defense and Justice, the Post Office, as well as correspondence with the President; background files, diaries, reports, etc. re: Bolton's foreign relations travels, including her 1955 African trip; speeches, publicity files, campaign files & local political issues files; material re: her involvement with national Republican Party organizations; UN Eighth General Assembly materials; correspondence, etc. re: nursing and nursing education, the Accokeek Foundation, Mt. Vernon Ladies' Assn., Bingham Associates Fund, and other institutions she supported; and general correspondence, scrapbooks, etc. The collection primarily pertains to Mrs. Bolton's public life and reflects her political activities, as well as her personal and philanthropic involvement with various organizations.
	Call #:	MS 3943
	Extent:	175.00 linear feet (176 containers, 31 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Accokeek Foundation. \| Bingham Associates Fund. \| Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977 -- Archives. \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Government missions, American. \| Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1934- \| Legislators -- United States -- Archives. \| Legislators -- United States -- Correspondence. \| Missionaries -- Correspondence. \| Nursing -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Nursing -- United States. \| Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| United Nations -- United States. \| United States -- Diplomatic and consular service. \| United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945- \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1945- \| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. \| United States. Dept. of State. \| Women in politics -- United States -- Archives.
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