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Gordon Griswold Papers

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Identifier: NC451
Abstract Records of Griswold's sheep ranches, his terms as president and board member of the Nevada Livestock Production Credit Association, the National Advisory Board (for the Taylor Grazing Act), National Wool Council, Nevada Wool Growers' Association, the Nevada Selective Service Board, and the U. S. D. A. War Board, and as coordinator of Operation Haylift in Nevada, 1949. Topics discussed include droughts in Nevada, grazing lands, sheep, the effect of World War II on local food production, and...
Dates: 1926-1954
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Vail Montgomery Pittman Papers

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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
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Bible, Alan, 1909-1988 1
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Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 1
Pittman, Key, 1872-1940 1
Pittman, Mimosa Gates, 1872-1952 1
Pittman, Vail Montgomery, 1880-1964 1
Sawyer, Grant, 1918-1996 1
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 1
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