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Richard H. Bryan U. S. Senatorial Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2003-01
Abstract
Richard Hudson Bryan is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1989-2001. A Democrat, Bryan served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983-1989, and before that served as the state's attorney general and a member of the State Senate. The collection contains material covering Richard Bryan's campaign for and career in the U.S. Senate, 1989-2001, following his time as Nevada's governor. The bulk of the papers come from his second term in the...
Dates:
1971-2002; Majority of material found within 1989-2001
Cooke Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2013-20
Abstract
Thomas Arthur "Tom" Cooke was a prominent and well-respected lawyer in Reno. He married Martha Patricia "Patty" Herz while in college at the University of Nevada in the early 1940s. The Cooke family was involved in a variety of environmental, recreational, and historic preservation projects and initiatives that sought to improve northern Nevada. Materials cover some aspects of the lives and careers of members of the Cooke and Herz families. Topics include Democratic politics in Nevada,...
Dates:
1855-2009; Majority of material found within 1940-2000
Vail Montgomery Pittman Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC392
Abstract
Vail Montgomery Pittman was a Nevada newspaperman, State Senator (1925-1929), Lieutenant Governor (1943-1945), Governor (1945-1950), and Democratic National Committeeman from Nevada (1955-1961). Married to Ida Brewington, 1919; brother of Nevada U.S. Senator Key Pittman. Papers, primarily correspondence, are to Pittman from personal, business, and political associates. Major correspondents include Alan Bible, Berkeley Bunker, Pat McCarran, Lester Moody, Drew Pearson, Key Pittman, Mimosa...
Dates:
1896-1964; Majority of material found within 1940-1964
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- Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd, 1906- 1
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- Cooke, Patricia Herz 1
- Cooke, Thomas A., 1920-1994 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
- McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954 1
- Moody, Lester 1
- Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 1
- Pittman, Key, 1872-1940 1
- Pittman, Mimosa Gates, 1872-1952 1
- Pittman, Vail Montgomery, 1880-1964 1
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency 1
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