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Collection Dates: 1942 -- 1968
6 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
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Posted to Internet: November 1997
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Table of Contents
Box 1 Correspondence, 1942 -- 1949
Box 2 Correspondence, 1950 -- Democratic National Convention, 1952
Box 3 Correspondence, 1952 -- Democratic National Committee Report, 1953
Box 4 Correspondence, 1954
Box 5 Correspondence, January 1955 - May 1956
Box 6 Correspondence, 1956 -- Convention Buttons and Memorabilia
Box 7 Correspondence, 1956 -- Dolliver vs. Coad
Box 8 Correspondence, May 1957 - September 1958
Box 9 Correspondence, October 1958 -- June 1959
Box 10 Correspondence, July 1959 -- May 1960
Box 11 State Convention Resolutions -- Convention and Inauguration Memorabilia
Box 12 Correspondence, 1962 -- County Quotas
Box 13 Correspondence, July 1967 -- December 1968
Box 14 Kights of Columbus -- Selective Service System
Index
to Important Names
Fort Dodge, Iowa
native Donald J. Mitchell (1914 -- 1975) graduated from the University of Iowa
College of Law. In 1939, he began practicing law in Fort Dodge. He was the Fort
Dodge city attorney from 1951 through 1974. Mitchell was very active in the
Democratic Party. He served as the Democratic National Committeeman from Iowa
for fifteen years, and was on the committee’s executive board from 1963
to 1968.
The papers of Donald J. Mitchell are composed of six linear feet of correspondence, subject files, campaign memorabilia, and some material on the Knights of Columbus. The papers date from 1942 to 1968 and consist primarily of correspondence. Included are letters from such prominent figures as: John M. Bailey, Fred Biermann, Chester Bowles, Paul Butler, Steven Carter, Merwin Coad, Rudolph M. Evans, S.J. Galvin, Guy M. Gillette, John R. Hansen, Averell Harriman, Lex Hawkins, Clyde E. Herring, Mike Hogan, Harold E. Hughes, Hubert H. Humphrey, Estes Kefauver, Alberta Metcalf Kelly, John F. Kennedy, Dale Kramer, Herschel C. Loveless, Edward A. McDermott, Edward J. McManus, Jake More, Donald A. Norberg, Clark Rasmussen, Arthur Sanford, Neal Smith, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Otha D. Wearin, Lumond F. Wilcox, G. Mennen Williams, and Leonard Wolf. The subject files relate to Democratic politics with folders about national and state conventions, committee reports, county quotas, and specific Congressional races.
Correspondence: 1942
-- 1949. (5 folders)
Correspondence: 1950 -- July 1952. (4 folders)
Democratic National
Convention, July 1952.
Correspondence: August 1952 -- December 1953. (4 folders)
Democratic National
Commitee Report, September 4, 1953.
Correspondence: 1954.
(4 folders)
Correspondence: January
1955 -- May 1956. (6 folders)
Correspondence: July-September 1956. (3 folders)
Convention buttons
and memorabilia, 1956.
Correspondence: October 1956 -- April 1957. (4 folders)
Dolliver vs. Coad,
November 1956 -- July 1957.
Correspondence: May
1957 -- September 1958. (5 folders)
Correspondence: October
1958 -- June 1959. (5 folders)
Correspondence: July
1959 -- May 30, 1960. (4 folders)
State convention resolutions, May 1960.
Correspondence: June 1960 -- December 1961. (3 folders)
Convention and inauguration
memorabilia, 1960 -- 1961.
Correspondence: November 1962 -- June 1967. (4 folders)
County quotas, June
1963.
Correspondence: July
1967 -- December 1968. (5 folders)
Knights of Columbus, 1948 -- 1952. (3 folders)
Selective Service
System, Local Board No. 95, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Correspondence, etc., 1948 --
1952.
[The numbers refer to box numbers]
Bailey, John M.: 11, 12, 13
Biermann, Fred: 4, 10
Bowles, Chester: 4, 5, 10
Butler, Paul M.: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Carter, Steven V.: 8, 9
Coad, Merwin: 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Evans, Rudolph M.: 5, 6
Calvin, Silas J.: 2, 3, 7
Gillette, Guy M.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9
Hansen, John R.: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13
Harriman, Averell: 2, 5, 6
Hawkins, Lex: 2, 5, 6, 11, 12
Herring, Clyde E.: 1, 3, 4, 12, 13
Hogan, M. P.: 2, 3, 4
Hughes, Harold E.: 12, 13
Humphrey, Hubert H.: 5, 6, 10, 12, 13
Kefauver, Estes: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Kelly, Alberta Metcalf: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13
Kennedy, John F.: 8, 9, 10
Kramer, Dale: 8
Loveless, Herschel C.: 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
McDermott, Edward A.: 3, 5, 10, 13
McManus, Edward J.: 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
More, Jake: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Norberg, Donald A.: 8, 9, 10, 11
Rasmussen, Clark: 12, 13
Sanford, Arthur: 4, 6, 7, 10
Smith, Neal: 9, 12, 13
Stevenson, Adlai: 5, 6, 7, 10
Symington, Stuart: 4, 10
Wearin, Otha D.: 3, 4, 6, 11
Wilcox, Lumond F.: 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11
Williams, G. Mennen: 5, 9, 11
Wolf, Leonard: 5, 9, 10
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