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1	Title:	Herman P. Goldsmith Papers
	Creator:	Goldsmith, Herman P.
	Dates:	1921-1954
	Abstract:	Herman Goldsmith (1910-1976) was a local political leader in the Cleveland, Ohio, area and collected ephemera related to his interests in sports and Jewish organizations. He was president and co-founder of Cleveland Letter Service, Inc., a direct mail company, and a member of the executive committee of the Cuyahoga County Republican Party. Additionally, Goldsmith served as a councilman in Bentleyville, Ohio. The collection consists of an agenda, a brochure, correspondence, lists, membership cards, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, programs, scrapbooks, speeches, and tickets.
	Call #:	MS 5037
	Extent:	0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Goldsmith, Herman P., 1910-1976. \| Young Men's Hebrew Association (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Longwood Commerce High School (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cuyahoga County Republican Party. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Sports -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Sports -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.
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2	Title:	David Berger Papers
	Creator:	Berger, David
	Dates:	1965-2006
	Abstract:	David Berger (1944-1972), an American and Israeli citizen, was a champion weightlifter and a member of the Israeli weightlifting team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. He was murdered by Arab terrorists on September 6, 1972, along with ten other Israeli athletes. Berger was a 1962 graduate of Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He studied psychology at Tulane University, graduating in 1966, after which he completed a master's degree in business administration and a law degree at Columbia University. Throughout the mid and late 1960s, Berger competed successfully in many weightlifting competitions. He represented the United States twice in the Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletic event held in Israel every four years. In 1965 he won a silver medal and in 1969 he won gold, setting a world record. He also won a silver medal at the 1971 Asian Games. He is in the Hall of Fame of the Amateur Athletic Union. Berger moved to Israel in 1970 after visiting the country with his family. The collection consists of certificates, newspaper clippings, programs, a resolution, a script, commemorative stamps, a statement, and a transcript.
	Call #:	MS 5132
	Extent:	0.30 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize container)
	Subjects:	Berger, David, 1944-1972. \| Olympic Games (20th : 1972 : Munich, Germany) \| Jewish athletes. \| Jews -- Sports -- History. \| Olympics -- Participation, Israeli. \| Olympics programs. \| Olympics on postage stamps. \| Terrorism -- Germany -- Munich. \| Victims of terrorism. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Israel -- Sports.
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3	Title:	Harry Eisenstat Papers
	Creator:	Eisenstat, Harry
	Dates:	1933-2003
	Abstract:	Harry Eisenstat was a Major League baseball pitcher who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, and the Cleveland Indians. He owned a hardware store in Shakers Heights, Ohio, and was vice president and sales manager of Curtis Industries. The collection consists of contracts, baseball memorabilia, statistics, newspaper clippings, books, correspondence and invitations, newsletters from Curtis Industries, photographs, and VHS tapes.
	Call #:	MS 4991
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Eisenstat, Harry, 1915-2003. \| Greenberg, Hank. \| Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948. \| Cleveland Indians (Baseball team) \| Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) \| Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) \| Curtis Industries. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish baseball players -- United States. \| Jewish baseball players -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Baseball players -- United States. \| Baseball players -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Baseball -- United States. \| Baseball -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Professional sports contracts. \| Baseball cards.
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4	Title:	Fuchs Mizrachi School Records
	Creator:	Fuchs Mizrachi School
	Dates:	1983-2000
	Abstract:	Fuchs Mizrachi School is an Orthodox Jewish day school, preschool through grade 12, located in University Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The school, founded in 1983 as Bet Sefer Mizrachi of Cleveland, was renamed Fuchs Bet Sefer Mizrachi in 1994 in honor of benefactors Susan and Leonard Fuchs; in 1999 it was renamed Fuchs Mizrachi School. It was established by a group of Zionist Orthodox Jewish friends, all with young children. Its curriculum included political and religious Zionism, Orthodox Judaism, modern Hebrew, and secular studies. After 8 years of renting space at Taylor Road Synagogue and Taylor Academy in Cleveland Heights and at Northwood Elementary School in University Heights, the school purchased the former Northwood Elementary School in 1994. The collection consists of minutes, newsletters, yearbooks, and scrapbooks.
	Call #:	MS 4836
	Extent:	4.00 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Fuchs Mizrachi School (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Jewish day schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Orthodox Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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5	Title:	Benny Friedman Papers
	Creator:	Friedman, Benny
	Dates:	1920-2005
	Abstract:	Benjamin "Benny" Friedman (1905-1982) was a high school, college, and professional football player, coach, and athletic administrator. One of six children of immigrant parents, he was raised in Glenville, a predominantly Jewish neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. As Glenville High School's star quarterback, he led his team to the City Football Championship and the National High School Championship in 1922. He entered the University of Michigan in 1923, became the starting quarterback in his sophomore season, and earned a reputation as the greatest passer of his day in college football. He was named an All-American in 1925 and 1926. In 1927, he joined the struggling professional National Football League, playing with the Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Wolverines, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers, whom he also coached. He made every All-Pro team of the era and revolutionized the game with his passing. He was backfield coach at Yale University in 1930. From 1934 to 1941 he coached football at City College of New York. After World War II, he became the football coach and athletic director at Brandeis University until they discontinued the sport in 1963. In 1951, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in its charter class. He began a football camp for young quarterbacks in Oxford, Maine in 1964. In 2005, Benny Friedman was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame. The collection consists of articles, biographical entries, a certificate, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, programs, scrapbooks, speech text, and trading cards.
	Call #:	MS 5072
	Extent:	2.20 linear feet (1 container and 2 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Friedman, Benny, 1905-1982. \| National Football League -- History -- 20th century \| Football players -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century. \| Football coaches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century. \| College football players -- 20th century. \| Football -- United States -- History -- 20th century. \| Football -- Coaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio)
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6	Title:	Abe M. Luntz Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Luntz, Abe M.
	Dates:	1916-1987
	Abstract:	Abe M. Luntz (1893-1981) was born in Akron, Ohio, on March 6, 1893 of Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Samuel and Rebecca Wolf Luntz. He and his family moved to Canton, Ohio, when he was around 6 years old. He attended public schools in Canton, was very active in sports, and graduated from Canton's Central High School in 1913. After graduation, he went to work for his father's company, the Canton Iron and Metal Company. With his brother Darwin, he founded the Luntz Iron and Steel Company in 1916 due to the growing need for scrap with the onset of World War I. He held several positions in the Luntz Iron and Steel Company before becoming president in 1951. The company became one of the United States' premiere scrap and steel brokerage firms and expanded into Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Kentucky. Abe Luntz married Fanny Teplansky on October 10, 1916. They had five children, Robert, Richard, William, Theodore, and Joan. The family moved to Cleveland in 1939 for business purposes as well as for more varied religious, musical, and educational opportunities. All of his sons joined in the family business. Luntz was also known for his benevolence to a wide variety of civic, cultural, medical, and religious groups and causes both in Canton and Cleveland. He was president of The Temple in University Circle from 1950-1960. He was active with the YMCA, the Boy Scouts, the Montefiore Home, the Singing Angels, and the Jewish Welfare Fund, among others. He was also a board member of many organizations including Mount Sinai Hospital, the Community Chest, United Appeal, Jewish Community Federation, and the Art Museum. He was especially involved with the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ), a human rights organization promoting peace, tolerance, and social justice (now known as the National Conference for Community and Justice). He held both local and national offices and won its highest award, the National Human Relations Award, in 1957. He died on February 24, 1981. The collection consists of brochures, certificates, correspondence, a deed, an invitation, legislation, lists, magazine articles, maps, a memoir, newsletters, newspaper articles, notes, obituaries, press releases, programs, reports, speech texts, and a will.
	Call #:	MS 5082
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Luntz, Abe M., 1893-1981. \| Luntz, Fanny. \| Luntz Iron and Steel Company (Canton, Ohio). \| National Conference of Christians and Jews. \| Temple-Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Canton. \| Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Canton. \| Scrap metal industry -- Ohio -- Canton. \| Steel industry and trade -- Ohio -- Canton. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews, Soviet -- Emigration and immigration.
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7	Title:	Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Records
	Creator:	Jewish Community Center of Cleveland
	Dates:	1899-1966
	Abstract:	The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of minutes, reports, administrative files, financial records, and other records of the Jewish Community Center, the Council Educational Alliance, and the Jewish Young Adult Bureau, and camp applications, historical material and other records of Camp Wise.
	Call #:	MS 3668
	Extent:	49.60 linear feet (47 containers)
	Subjects:	Jewish Community Center of Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. \| Yiddish drama -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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8	Title:	Abe M. Luntz Papers
	Creator:	Luntz, Abe M.
	Dates:	1886-1982
	Abstract:	Abe M. Luntz was a Cleveland and Canton, Ohio, businessman who ran Luntz Iron and Steel Company. Born in Akron, Ohio, of Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he was raised in Canton where he joined his father's scrap-metal business. Over the years the business expanded into a multi-state corporation. He married Fanny Teplansky in 1916, and in 1940 they moved to Cleveland. Luntz served as president of the Temple-Tifereth Israel in Cleveland from 1950-1960, and supported a wide assortment of civic, cultural, medical, religious, and benevolent groups in Canton and in Cleveland. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and family documents pertaining to Abe M. Luntz and his sons, Robert and William, who were also involved in numerous service organizations. Of particular note are materials pertaining to Abe Luntz's leadership, on the local and regional level, in the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
	Call #:	MS 4548
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Luntz, Abe M., 1893-1981. \| Luntz Iron and Steel Company (Canton, Ohio). \| National Conference of Christians and Jews. \| Temple-Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Canton. \| Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Businessmen -- Ohio -- Canton. \| Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Scrap metal industry -- Ohio -- Canton. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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9	Title:	Hiram House Social Settlement Records
	Creator:	Hiram House Social Settlement
	Dates:	1893-1972
	Abstract:	Hiram House is a pioneer Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1896 by a group of Hiram College students led by George Bellamy, who later became Commissioner of Recreation for the city of Cleveland. During the height of its growth the settlement offered a full range of social, educational and recreational activities, but since 1948 it has concentrated its resources on Hiram House Camp in the suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Before 1948 its primary service area was centered in a neighborhood populated primarily by Jews, Italians and African Americans. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, financial statements, ledger books, legal papers, correspondence, and employment and administrative policy materials of Hiram House, correspondence and legal and financial papers of George Bellamy, and correspondence from Samuel Mather and other supporters of the settlement.
	Call #:	MS 3319
	Extent:	38.00 linear feet (78 containers and 17 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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10	Title:	Louis Arthur Landy Papers
	Creator:	Landy, Louis Arthur
	Dates:	1902-1967
	Abstract:	Louis Arthur Landy was a Cleveland, Ohio, dentist who served in World War I, worked for the American Red Cross in Palestine and the Balkans, 1919-1921, and served with the American Relief Administration in Russia, 1921-1923, helping to administer famine relief efforts there. The collection consists of a diary, newspaper articles, notebooks, school yearbooks, personal notes, school magazines, correspondence, sports memorabilia, and photographs. Includes material relating to his work with the American Relief Administration in Russia, his dental studies at Western Reserve University and his football career there in the 1910s, Central High School miscellany, and some travel materials.
	Call #:	MS 4988
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Landy, Louis Arthur, 1890-1967. \| Western Reserve University. School of Dentistry. \| Western Reserve University -- Football. \| American Relief Administration. \| American National Red Cross. \| Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Council Educational Alliance (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Lincoln Literary Society (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Dentists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Football players -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Dentistry -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Football -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Soviet Union. \| Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Serbia. \| Famines -- Soviet Union. \| Food relief, American -- Soviet Union. \| Americans -- Soviet Union. \| Teeth -- Care and hygiene -- Juvenile literature. \| Child welfare -- Serbia. \| Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Baseball -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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11	Title:	Howard M. Metzenbaum Congressional Papers, Record Group 2
	Creator:	Metzenbaum, Howard M.
	Dates:	1928-1995
	Abstract:	Howard Morton Metzenbaum (1917-2008) was an Ohio Democrat who served in the United States Senate for one appointed term in 1974 and for three consecutive elected terms from 1976 to 1995. Metzenbaum was born on June 4, 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Glenville High School in Cleveland, Howard Metzenbaum attended Ohio State University, where he earned both his B.A. and L.L.D. Soon after graduating from law school, Metzenbaum founded his own law firm, Metzenbaum, Gaines, Finley, and Stern, in Cleveland. Howard Metzenbaum entered politics at the age of 26, serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from1943 to 1947 and in the Ohio State Senate from 1947 to 1950. He went on to become Ohio Senator Stephen M. Young's campaign manager in 1958. Meanwhile, he had also founded the Airport Parking Company of America (APCOA) with his business partner Alva "Ted" Bonda, who would remain an important associate throughout Metzenbaum's career. Metzenbaum ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 1970, losing to Robert Taft, Jr. In 1974, however, he was appointed to the Senate by Ohio governor John Gilligan to replace William Saxbe, who had been appointed to the position of U.S. attorney general. Metzenbaum sought the Senate seat himself in the 1974 Democratic primary but lost to John Glenn. Metzenbaum later ran against incumbent Republican Robert A. Taft, Jr., in 1976, and won. In 1982 he handily won reelection against moderate Republican state senator Paul Pfeifer, and again in 1988 when he was opposed by Cleveland mayor George Voinovich, who ran a mostly negative campaign that accused Metzenbaum of being soft on child pornography. Metzenbaum chose not to run for reelection in 1994, instead supporting his son-in-law Joel Hyatt's ultimately unsuccessful campaign. Howard Metzenbaum's legacy in the United States Senate was as an ardent liberal. He quickly earned a reputation as a champion of consumer rights in 1977 when he and Senator James Abourezk (D-SD) embarked on a 14-day filibuster against the deregulation of natural gas; later, he spearheaded other important consumer legislation such as the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1989, and was also involved in food safety investigations involving artificial sweeteners, dietary supplements, and poultry processing. Metzenbaum was also responsible for significant legislation in the area of workers' rights, particularly the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which required companies employing 100 or more people to provide at least 60 days' advance notice to employees in the event of a plant closing or mass layoffs. Other legislative priorities included environmental protection, funding for Alzheimer's disease, support for Israel, and gun control. Metzenbaum introduced the Brady Bill in the Senate beginning in 1986 until it was finally signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Senator Metzenbaum also became known for his "filibuster-by-amendment" technique, in which he would delay passage of a bill by attaching as many as several dozen amendments. He was a particular critic of earmark-laden "pork barrel" bills, which he believed wasted taxpayers' money (and which he blocked at every opportunity, to the irritation of many of his colleagues). During his three elected terms, Metzenbaum was a member of the Indian Affairs committee, Budget committee, and Judiciary committee. He also served on the Subcommittee on Citizens and Shareholders Rights and Remedies and the Labor and Human Resources subcommittee. He served as the chairman of the Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights subcommittee. As a member of the Judiciary committee, he investigated the savings and loan and insurance scandals of the 1980s, helped to block President Ronald Reagan's nomination of conservative judge Robert Bork to the United States Supreme Court, and unsuccessfully attempted to block confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court. Married to his wife Shirley (Turoff) Metzenbaum in 1946, Howard Metzenbaum had four daughters: Barbara, Susan, Shelley, and Amy. He died on March 12, 2008, at age 90. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, amendments, appointment books, briefing books, budgets, campaign literature, certificates, charts, Congressional Record inserts, correspondence, daily schedules, draft legislation, financial statements, guest books, handbooks, hearing transcripts, indexes, invitations, itineraries, job descriptions, journal articles, legal documents, legislation, lists, magazine articles, manuals, meeting notices, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, office manuals, photographs, polls, press releases, proposals, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, scrapbooks, speech texts, statements, statistics, talking points, tax records, telegrams, testimony, and transcripts.
	Call #:	MS 5031
	Extent:	406.5 linear feet (485 containers, 3 oversize folders, and 103 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Metzenbaum, Howard M. \| Taft, Robert, 1917-1993. \| Celeste, Richard F. \| Glenn, John, 1921- \| Kucinich, Dennis J., 1946- \| Voinovich, George V., 1936- \| United States. Congress. Senate. \| Democratic Party (U.S.) \| Tower City Center (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish legislators -- Ohio. \| Legislators -- Ohio. \| Political campaigns -- United States. \| Political campaigns -- Ohio. \| Consumer protection -- United States. \| Food adulteration and inspection -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Employee rights -- United States. \| Labor laws and legislation -- United States. \| Gun control -- United States. \| Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Energy policy -- United States. \| Abortion -- Government policy -- United States. \| Steel industry and trade -- Ohio. \| Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio. \| Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Public works -- Ohio. \| Jews, Soviet -- Emigration and immigration. \| Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. \| Environmental protection -- United States. \| Environmental protection -- Erie, Lake. \| Alzheimer's disease -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995 -- Congresses. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1951- \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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12	Title:	Howard M. Metzenbaum Congressional Papers, Record Group 2
	Creator:	Metzenbaum, Howard M.
	Dates:	1928-1995
	Abstract:	Howard Morton Metzenbaum (1917-2008) was an Ohio Democrat who served in the United States Senate for one appointed term in 1974 and for three consecutive elected terms from 1976 to 1995. Metzenbaum was born on June 4, 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Glenville High School in Cleveland, Howard Metzenbaum attended Ohio State University, where he earned both his B.A. and L.L.D. Soon after graduating from law school, Metzenbaum founded his own law firm, Metzenbaum, Gaines, Finley, and Stern, in Cleveland. Howard Metzenbaum entered politics at the age of 26, serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from1943 to 1947 and in the Ohio State Senate from 1947 to 1950. He went on to become Ohio Senator Stephen M. Young's campaign manager in 1958. Meanwhile, he had also founded the Airport Parking Company of America (APCOA) with his business partner Alva "Ted" Bonda, who would remain an important associate throughout Metzenbaum's career. Metzenbaum ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 1970, losing to Robert Taft, Jr. In 1974, however, he was appointed to the Senate by Ohio governor John Gilligan to replace William Saxbe, who had been appointed to the position of U.S. attorney general. Metzenbaum sought the Senate seat himself in the 1974 Democratic primary but lost to John Glenn. Metzenbaum later ran against incumbent Republican Robert A. Taft, Jr., in 1976, and won. In 1982 he handily won reelection against moderate Republican state senator Paul Pfeifer, and again in 1988 when he was opposed by Cleveland mayor George Voinovich, who ran a mostly negative campaign that accused Metzenbaum of being soft on child pornography. Metzenbaum chose not to run for reelection in 1994, instead supporting his son-in-law Joel Hyatt's ultimately unsuccessful campaign. Howard Metzenbaum's legacy in the United States Senate was as an ardent liberal. He quickly earned a reputation as a champion of consumer rights in 1977 when he and Senator James Abourezk (D-SD) embarked on a 14-day filibuster against the deregulation of natural gas; later, he spearheaded other important consumer legislation such as the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1989, and was also involved in food safety investigations involving artificial sweeteners, dietary supplements, and poultry processing. Metzenbaum was also responsible for significant legislation in the area of workers' rights, particularly the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which required companies employing 100 or more people to provide at least 60 days' advance notice to employees in the event of a plant closing or mass layoffs. Other legislative priorities included environmental protection, funding for Alzheimer's disease, support for Israel, and gun control. Metzenbaum introduced the Brady Bill in the Senate beginning in 1986 until it was finally signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Senator Metzenbaum also became known for his "filibuster-by-amendment" technique, in which he would delay passage of a bill by attaching as many as several dozen amendments. He was a particular critic of earmark-laden "pork barrel" bills, which he believed wasted taxpayers' money (and which he blocked at every opportunity, to the irritation of many of his colleagues). During his three elected terms, Metzenbaum was a member of the Indian Affairs committee, Budget committee, and Judiciary committee. He also served on the Subcommittee on Citizens and Shareholders Rights and Remedies and the Labor and Human Resources subcommittee. He served as the chairman of the Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights subcommittee. As a member of the Judiciary committee, he investigated the savings and loan and insurance scandals of the 1980s, helped to block President Ronald Reagan's nomination of conservative judge Robert Bork to the United States Supreme Court, and unsuccessfully attempted to block confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court. Married to his wife Shirley (Turoff) Metzenbaum in 1946, Howard Metzenbaum had four daughters: Barbara, Susan, Shelley, and Amy. He died on March 12, 2008, at age 90. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, amendments, appointment books, briefing books, budgets, campaign literature, certificates, charts, Congressional Record inserts, correspondence, daily schedules, draft legislation, financial statements, guest books, handbooks, hearing transcripts, indexes, invitations, itineraries, job descriptions, journal articles, legal documents, legislation, lists, magazine articles, manuals, meeting notices, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, office manuals, photographs, polls, press releases, proposals, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, scrapbooks, speech texts, statements, statistics, talking points, tax records, telegrams, testimony, and transcripts.
	Call #:	MS 5031
	Extent:	406.5 linear feet (485 containers, 3 oversize folders, and 103 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Metzenbaum, Howard M. \| Taft, Robert, 1917-1993. \| Celeste, Richard F. \| Glenn, John, 1921- \| Kucinich, Dennis J., 1946- \| Voinovich, George V., 1936- \| United States. Congress. Senate. \| Democratic Party (U.S.) \| Tower City Center (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish legislators -- Ohio. \| Legislators -- Ohio. \| Political campaigns -- United States. \| Political campaigns -- Ohio. \| Consumer protection -- United States. \| Food adulteration and inspection -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Employee rights -- United States. \| Labor laws and legislation -- United States. \| Gun control -- United States. \| Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Energy policy -- United States. \| Abortion -- Government policy -- United States. \| Steel industry and trade -- Ohio. \| Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio. \| Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Public works -- Ohio. \| Jews, Soviet -- Emigration and immigration. \| Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. \| Environmental protection -- United States. \| Environmental protection -- Erie, Lake. \| Alzheimer's disease -- Law and legislation -- United States. \| Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995 -- Congresses. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1951- \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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