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Reva Beck Bosone papers, 1917-1977

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Bosone, Reva Beck
Title
Reva Beck Bosone papers
Dates
1917-1977 (inclusive)
Quantity
19.5 linear feet, (38 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Collection Number
MS 0127
Summary
The Reva Beck Bosone papers (1927-1977) mainly contain the political papers of Bosone (b. 1895), the first woman sent to the United States House of Representatives by the state of Utah. Included are correspondence, campaign materials, voting records, legislation, subject files, and some personal materials.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Some original items have been removed and placed in Reserve. Access must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used. Photocopies are available in the collection for research use.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

The first woman sent to the United States House of Representatives by the State of Utah was Reva Beck Bosone who represented the Second Congressional District for the 1949-1951 term. Bosone had set precedents before--when she became Democratic floor leader of the Utah State House of Representatives, in which she served from 1933 to 1936, and when she became Utah's first woman judge, a post she held until 1948.

Reva Beck Bosone was born in American Fork, Utah, the only daughter among the four children of Christian M. and Zilpha Chipman Beck. Her father was of Danish extraction, her mother a descendant of the 1847 Mormon pioneers and of the Mayflower pilgrims. Reva Beck attended grammar and high schools in American Fork, graduated from the Westminster Junior College in Salt Lake City, and in 1920 received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley. For the next seven years she taught in the high schools of her birthplace, in Delta, and in Ogden, Utah. At the latter, she was head of the Department of Public Speaking, Debating, and Dramatic Arts.

Inspired by the memory of her mother's admonition that "a country is no better than its laws--if you want to serve all of the people, go where the laws are made," Reva Beck resigned from her teaching post in 1927 to read law at the University of Utah. She received her law degree in 1930. The previous year, she was married to Joseph P. Bosone, a lawyer. They were divorced in 1940.

The Bosone family moved to the mining region of Carbon County where both Bosone and her husband practiced law under the firm name Bosone and Bosone until Mrs. Bosone became a candidate for the state legislature. Carrying her two-year-old daughter Zilpha, she conducted a door-to-door campaign that resulted in her election to the 1933 session of the Utah State House of Representatives with "the highest vote received by any candidate for an office in the county." In 1935 she was returned to office from Salt Lake County. In the 1935 session Mrs. Bosone was elected floor leader of the Democratic members and also became the first woman member of the important Sifting Committee, as well as its chairman. Her role in obtaining passage of a minimum wage-and-hour law for women and children and of the Utah child labor constitutional amendment, was commended by Frances Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt.

In 1936, after several months of private law practice in Salt Lake City, Bosone was elected city judge, and was successively reelected to that office until 1948. Sitting in both police and traffic courts (all traffic violations in Salt Lake City were filed in her court), she instituted extraordinary traffic fines--a conviction for drunken driving cost $300, for reckless driving $200. During her first year in office the number of traffic cases filed was tripled, and only three appeals from her judgments were sustained.

The election of Bosone to the United States House of Representatives over Republican William A. Dawson took place in November 1948, when she was chosen to represent the Second Congressional District of Utah comprising the four counties of Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, and Utah. Her concept of a legislator's duties was contained in a pre-election statement: "Office holders should do the job that should be done, whether the required course of action is popular or not...The biggest need in politics and government today is for people of integrity and courage, who will do what they believe is right and not worry about the political consequences to themselves."

She was the first woman to serve on the House Interior Committee. Judge Bosone continued to work on this committee when she was reelected to the House in 1950, defeating Ivy Baker Priest. During this second term she was a member of the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials. Judge Bosone also proposed legislation to remove the American Indians from government wardship and was much involved in sponsoring water projects for the West.

In 1952 and again in 1954 Reva Beck Bosone was defeated for election to the House by William A. Dawson. Following the 1954 defeat, she had a private law practice until 1958 when she became legal counsel for the Subcommittee of Safety and Compensation of the House Committee on Education. After serving over three years, Postmaster General J. Edward Day appointed her a judicial officer and chairman of the Contract Board of Appeals, for the United States Post Office Department, a position she held until her formal retirement in 1968.

The problems of juvenile delinquency and alcoholism were of special interest to Judge Bosone. She was appointed director of the Utah State Board for Education in Alcoholism, and served in that capacity between 1947 and 1948. For her work in this area, as well as that of juvenile delinquency, Judge Bosone was elected to Utah's Hall of Fame in 1943. During World War II, in her capacity as chairman of the Civilian Advisory WAC Committee of the Ninth Service Command, she toured eleven Western States to confer with their governors. She was an active member of the United War Fund Committee of Utah and of the Veterans Central Welfare Committee. (In the fall of 1948 she taught a refresher course for veterans at the University of Utah Law School.) The Utah congress woman was an officer of such organizations as the Italian-American Civic League (1934-46), the Housewives' Council of Salt Lake City (1934-35), and the Consumers' Welfare League of Utah (1934-37). She was a member of Phi Delta Delta and the Society of Mayflower Descendants.

The keynote address at the 1947 convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs was delivered by Judge Bosone, who was also a principal speaker at the general session of the National Safety Conference in 1948. For several months radio station KDYL of NBC carried a fifteen minute weekly program by Judge Bosone, entitled "Her Honor--The Judge." In July and again in September of 1948 she appeared on "America's Town Meeting of the Air," speaking on international law and alcoholism. After her election defeat in 1952, Reva Beck Bosone was moderator of the Salt Lake City program "It's a Woman's World" on KDYL, four times weekly. In 1953 the program won the Zenith Television Award for excellence in local programming. A special KUTV documentary, "Her Honor, the Judge," was shown in 1977 on Reva Beck Bosone's varied and colorful career.

In 1946, Judge Bosone was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and in 1965 was considered for an appointment to that body with the resignation of Justice Arthur J. Goldberg. There followed honors from the three schools she had attended. In 1970 the University of California, Berkeley, gave her a Distinguished Service in Government award. Westminster College awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree (L.H.D.) in 1973 at a ceremony where she was the commencement speaker. Finally, in 1977 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah. Judge Bosone was also given, with two other women, the first annual Susa Young Gates Award, in 1973, for her work in raising the status of women in Utah.

Reva Beck Bosone died in 1983.

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Content Description

Essentially a political collection, the Reva Beck Bosone papers (1927-1977) contain very little personal material. However, the first part of the collection includes her autobiography and a number of biographical sketches, as well as personal memorabilia such as greeting cards, invitations, award certificates, and programs.

The bulk of the correspondence is contained in four boxes, filed by date. These letters are from congressional colleagues, constituents, and personal friends. Other correspondence related to specific subjects is interfiled throughout the collection where it is supportive or items on the same topic. In addition to the four boxes of speeches or statements filed by date, there are others filed under related subject headings where necessary to clarify the topic.

Comprising the central part of the collection are items directly related to Reva Beck Bosone's political life. Materials from her years as judge in the Salt Lake Traffic Court are in this portion. Campaign materials, voting records, and legislation are also included in this section, as well as materials related to her committee and subcommittee assignments, including two boxes on Utah water projects. Materials on issues in which she had a special interest, such as alcoholism, foreign affairs, and business, are filed alphabetically in four boxes.

General items on women and women's clubs (both Utah and national) and Utah are included together in one box. Two boxes on the Democratic and Republican parties contain miscellaneous political material. Following this is a volume containing the decisions made by Judge Bosone as a judicial officer for the United States Post Office Department.

The Subject Files are arranged alphabetically and contain such items as club rosters and pending military discharge cases in which Bosone had an interest. The six scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia. Addenda to the collection includes correspondence, tributes, essays, and miscellaneous materials.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Separated Materials

See also the Reva Beck Bosone photograph collection (P0127) and audio-visual materials (A0127) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Processing Note

Processed by Debra von Khrum and others in 1977-1998.

Box 39 processed by Kristina Barksdale in 2024.

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Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • I: Autobiography and Biographical Sketch

  • II: Personal Material

    • Description: Miscellaneous

      Includes verses, quotes, personnel application for the Works Project Administration of Utah, gas rationing stamps, and other items.

      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
      Location: II: Personal Material
    • Description: Invitations
      Dates: 1948-1967
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2-3
      Location: II: Personal Material
    • Description: Certificates and Awards
      Dates: 1942-1954
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
      Location: II: Personal Material
    • Description: Greeting Cards
      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
      Location: II: Personal Material
    • Description: Programs with Bosone as a Speaker
      Dates: 1937-1965
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6-7
      Location: II: Personal Material
    • Description: Itineraries
      Container: Box 3, Folder 8
      Location: II: Personal Material
    • Description: Notebook

      Includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, and statistics.

      Container: Box 3, Folder 9
      Location: II: Personal Material
    • Description: Shavetail, Officer Candidate School, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
      Dates: 1951-1952
      Container: Box 3, Volume 1-2
      Location: II: Personal Material

  • III: Correspondence

    • Description: Correspondence

      This correspondence covers many different areas. In this period there is much dealing with politics in general. It covers the period of Bosone's schoolteaching to her defeat in the 1952 congressional campaign. The bulk of this box is concerned with the 1952 campaign and includes appeals to her constituents to support her and their replies as well as her own endorsements of other candidates. Included are reactions to the Fulton Lewis accusations. There are letters from her constituents during her time in office, urging her to vote positively or negatively on certain issues, such as the establishment of the CIA, the Mundt-Nixon Bill from the Committee on Un-American Activities, and UNICEF. It contains her views on the United Nations, on housing, and on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. There are letters requesting information as well as congratulatory letters on her elections and appointments to various committees and commissions and on her work as judge. Several letters express appreciation for her congressional efforts and support her stands. There are business letters, travel arrangements, speaking engagements, and other similar letters. Many letters are from her congressional colleagues, which include several important people. There are two letters from Harry S. Truman (September 14, 1950 and January 8, 1951). This box also contains some personal correspondence.

      One original letter has been removed from folder 7 and placed in Reserve. One original letter has been removed from folder 8 and placed in Reserve. Photocopied versions are available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the originals must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used.

      Dates: 1927-1952
      Container: Box 4
      Location: III: Correspondence
    • Description: Correspondence

      This box contains many items similar to those in Box 4. There are letters dealing with politics in general, staff correspondence, requests and thank-you letters for speaking engagements, congratulatory letters on appointments and elections, and requests for information. It also includes letters from congressional colleagues such as Sam Rayburn (January 21, September 21, 30, 1955; April 27, December 3, 1956), Mary T. Norton (April 24, 1956), and Estes Kefauver (July 5, 1955, August 30, 1956). Other notable people include Averell Harriman, (July 5, August 23, 1956), Adlai Stevenson (June 19, August 10, 1956), and Harry S. Truman (May 3, August 8, 1956). The later correspondence is primarily personal or deals with post office business after her appointment as a judicial officer. There are several letters expressing opinions of her television program, "It's a Woman's World," for which she received the Zenith Television Award, a national award for distinguished public service by a woman television broadcaster, in 1953.

      One original letter has been removed from folder 8 and placed in Reserve. Two original letters has been removed from folder 9 and placed in Reserve. Seven original letters has been removed from folder 10 and placed in Reserve. Photocopied versions are available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the originals must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used.

      Dates: 1952-1964
      Container: Box 5
      Location: III: Correspondence
    • Description: Correspondence

      In large measure this box is personal correspondence. There is some correspondence dealing with post office business, invitations for speaking engagements, and letters of recommendation for positions. Included are letters concerned with getting Bosone appointed to the United States Supreme Court, The personal correspondence relates to her family, health, travel, and general political views. She went on a personal crusade against medical schools when one young man, whom she felt would be a dedicated doctor, was not allowed into medical school. She wrote editorials ("I want to be a Doctor," August 24, 1964) and letters to several people to see if something could be done about what she felt to be a grave injustice. There is also a copy of a portion of a thesis which refers to the effect of the physicians' lobby against the Democratic candidates in the 1952 and 1954 elections. It is entitled "Effectiveness of the Temporary Medical Group as Seen in Two Case Studies in Two Separate Utah Election Years," June 4, 1965.

      Dates: 1964-1967
      Container: Box 6
      Location: III: Correspondence
    • Description: Correspondence

      This box is almost entirely personal correspondence from Bosone. In addition to purely personal matters, there are letters concerned with business affairs, general political issues and arrangements, letters of congratulations, and letters of recommendation--both for and from her. Much of the correspondence with her congressional acquaintances is in letters of recommendation endorsing her appointment to the Interior Department or the Obscenity Commission. Some correspondence on the Equal Rights Amendment is also included. There is a letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson (January 25, 1968) thanking her for her support. This box also contains some undated letters, including annonymous ones.

      Two original letters have been removed from folder 9 and placed in Reserve. Photocopied versions are available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the originals must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used.

      Dates: 1967-1977
      Container: Box 7
      Location: III: Correspondence

  • IV: Speeches and Articles

    • Description: Speeches and Articles

      Debate for American Fork High School (won first debate cup, 1915); "Salt Lake City Blazed a Safety Trail" (1939); "A Thank You To the Utah State Senate" (1945); "Traffic and Uniform Fines" (published in National Safety Magazine, 1946); "Lincoln and the United Nations Conferences" (1946); and "Chill the Thrill in Reckless Driving" (1948).

      Dates: 1915-1948
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches and Articles

      "Excerpts from Speech to Women Lawyers," "Speech to . . . Democratic Committee of New York County," article in Norfolk Virginian Pilot entitled "No More Trouble Than Men" (May 2, 1949), and "Memorial Day Address ... in the House of Representatives" (May 25, 1949).

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 8, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches Printed in the Congressional Record

      Deals with housing, mining, peace, University of Utah centennial, statue of Brigham Young in the capital, Indians, women, and security loans.

      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box 8, Folder 3
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Reva Bosone Congressional Speeches

      Delivered in Congress on peace, appropriations for recreation areas, Alaska, traffic control, "How Utah Looks from Washington," Civilian Conservation Corps Bill, law before the Oregon State Bar, and price controls.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 8, Folder 4
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches

      Remarks on Sam Rayburn, foreign policy, women in civil defense, misuse of immunity, and a speech for United States Air Force graduation at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

      Dates: 1951 January-March
      Container: Box 8, Folder 5
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches

      Floor speeches in the United States House of Representatives on the deaths of George Albert Smith and Frank Buchanan, reclamation, and Harry S. Truman; a partial address before the Conservation Committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution; "The Old Gray Mare, She Ain't What She Used to Be" printed in the Congressional Record; speech before the Jackson Democratic League in Salt Lake; and an address before the National Reclamation Association in Texas.

      Dates: 1951 April-December
      Container: Box 8, Folder 6
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches Printed in the Congressional Record

      Deals with isolationism, foreign policy, Colorado River Storage Project, Reconstruction Finance Company, the Korean War, the Salt Lake Aqueduct, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and memorial services in Congress.

      Dates: 1951-1952
      Container: Box 8, Folder 7
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches and Articles

      Includes address at Lackland Air Force Base and remarks on Puerto Rico, REA (Rural Electric Association), and Dawson's campaign tactics.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 8, Folder 8
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Campaign Speeches [01]

      Defense of "kickback" charges, issues, leftist government, Dawson smear tactics, etc.

      Dates: circa 1952
      Container: Box 8, Folder 9
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Campaign Speeches [02]
      Dates: circa 1952
      Container: Box 8, Folder 10
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches

      "A State Legislator and Former Congresswoman's Experiences as a Teacher" (1953); "American Democracy--How to Obtain It--How to Live It" (1956); "Expressions Heard in Childhood Influence Adult Thinking and Action" (1967): General Federation of Women's Clubs Commemorative Stamp Ceremony, New York (1967); and "In Memory" (1969), which became a chapter in Irving Stone's There Was Light.

      Dates: 1953-1969
      Container: Box 8, Folder 11
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches and Articles

      "Hear Ye! Hear Ye!" (1970), "What Life Has Taught Me" (1974), "The Joseph R. McCarthy Times" (1977); and "A Salute to Men" (1977).

      Dates: 1970-1977
      Container: Box 8, Folder 12
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Campaign Speeches

      Remarks in Congress on water projects, Alaska and Hawaii, price controls, honesty in government, and Indian Affairs.

      Dates: 1949-1953
      Container: Box 8, Folder 13
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Election Speeches and Articles

      "Hanged By the Rumor Noose."

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 8, Folder 14
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches and Articles

      Water projects and reclamation.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 8, Folder 15
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Miscellaneous Speeches and Articles

      Covers juvenile delinquency, alcoholism, pornography, reckless driving, taxation, and the budget.

      Dates: 1949-1967
      Container: Box 8, Folder 16
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Miscellaneous Speeches and Articles

      "What are We Talking About at Home," "Some Loose Thoughts on Women in Defense," "Why You Should Register," an article for the Democratic Digest, etc.

      Dates: 1949-1953
      Container: Box 8, Folder 17
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches

      Who do we think we are?

      Dates: 1960s
      Container: Box 9, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speech at a DAR Conservation Committee breakfast

      Reva Bosone speech at a DAR Conservation Committee breakfast

      Container: Box 9, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches

      Today's home builds tomorrow's world

      Container: Box 9, Folder 3
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: National Reclamation Association speech
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 9, Folder 4
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speech Before Allied Women's Clubs
      Dates: 1951 March 17
      Container: Box 9, Folder 5
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speeches

      There's no magic in Potomac's waters

      Dates: 1950-1952
      Container: Box 9, Folder 6
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Campaign Speech
      Dates: 1952 October 31
      Container: Box 9, Folder 7
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speech to Utah Democrats
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 9, Folder 9
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Judicial Officer Speeches
      Dates: 1961-1964
      Container: Box 9, Folder 10
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speech to Exchange Club, part 2
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 9, Folder 11
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Judicial Officer Speeches
      Dates: 1962-1966
      Container: Box 9, Folder 12
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Speech in Congress

      Lawyers and judges as guardians of democracy: Reva Bosone speech in Congress

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 9, Folder 13
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      Appearances on "Hello, Ladies" on which Bosone spoke of mixing a career with being a wife and mother; on "The Hall of Fame," a tribute to Bosone and short biography; and a salute to Bosone on "Mothers of Today!"

      Dates: 1938-1944
      Container: Box 10, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Interviews

      Appearances on "Auerbach's Breakfast-Time Half Hour" first as a guest speaking of her work and background and then speaking about the San Francisco United Nations Conference.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 10, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      From the program "Her Honor--The Judge" including such subjects as drunk driving, delinquent adults, speeding, vandalism, assault and battery, juvenile delinquency, and disorderly conduct.

      Dates: 1946 June-July
      Container: Box 10, Folder 3
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      From the Program "Her Honor--The Judge" including such subjects as disorderly conduct, juvenile delinquency, vandalism, vagrancy, traffic safety statistics, drunk driving, hit-and-run, pedestrian accidents, alcoholism, assault and battery, and penalties for repeaters of traffic violations.

      Dates: 1946 August-September
      Container: Box 10, Folder 4
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      From the program "Her Honor--The Judge" including such subjects as reckless driving, leaving keys in cars, court attitudes, hit-and-run, parking, and alcoholism.

      Dates: 1947 January-February
      Container: Box 10, Folder 5
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      From the program "Her Honor--The Judge" including such subjects as alcoholism, a drunk farm, traffic fines, hit-and-run, reckless driving, and leaving keys in cars; an interview with an inmate of the Utah State Penitentiary and the Industrial School; and sex crimes.

      Dates: 1947 March-April
      Container: Box 10, Folder 6
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      From the program "Her Honor--The Judge" including such subjects as auto theft, assault and battery, disturbing the peace, salute to mothers, women alcoholics, and good neighbors.

      Dates: 1947 May
      Container: Box 10, Folder 7
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: People Report Interviews

      KDYL (possibly for the program "People Report") includes such subjects as alcoholism and the drunk farm, vandalism, divorce, and juvenile delinquency.

      Dates: 1948 January-June
      Container: Box 10, Folder 8
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      On alcoholism and program entitled "How Should The United Nations Progressively Establish International Law," broadcast on "America's Town Meeting of the Air," from Eugene, Oregon.

      Dates: 1948 July
      Container: Box 10, Folder 9
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: People Report Interviews

      Discussion of the United Nations broadcast, alcoholism, and traffic safety.

      Dates: 1948 August-September
      Container: Box 10, Folder 10
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      Interviews of Bosone and Mary T. Norton covering the liberal-progressive program of the Democratic party and its timetable in the 81st Congress, Bosone's vote against the CIA bill, military expenditures, "Life With Congress" on "KSL Reports The Washington Scene" (Bosone's first months in Congress, her election to the Public Lands Committee, the Colorado River Compact, Central Arizona Project, the Marshall Plan, the Military Establishments Bill, and the Indians), and "What is the Best Answer to Alcoholism" on "America's Town Meeting of the Air," from New York City.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 10, Folder 11
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      Bosone's declaration of candidacy for Second Congressional District in Utah (June 17, 1950); Bosone's legislative objectives dealing with peace, economics and reclamation, mining, education, unemployment, the Civil Conservation Corps, wardship of American Indians, and federal expenditures; speeches on national health insurance and socialized medicine, the American Indian, the federal budget and spending of tax dollars, reclamation and Utah water projects, and communism and socialism, drafting women for service in the war to replace noncombatant men in the armed services and on the industrial front (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom), and price controls.

      Dates: 1950-1951 July
      Container: Box 10, Folder 12
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      KALL broadcasts on "Echo Park Reservoir"; "Christmas Spirit in Politics"; "New Year's--1952"; "Legislative Matters Facing Congress"; "President's Health Commission"; "Preparation for Voting"; "The 1952 Budget"; "Universal Military Training"; "Newbold Morris"; "Price Controls--1952"; "Wool"; "Television"; "Biennial Political Conventions"; "1953 Budget"; "Korea--Why We Are There"; "Japanese Peace Treaty"; "Weber Basin Reclamation Project"; "Defense Appropriation Bill"; "Steel Dispute and WSB"; and "Upper Colorado River." Also included is "Women in the News Series: Reva Beck Bosone, Congresswoman from Utah."

      Dates: 1951 December-1952 May
      Container: Box 10, Folder 13
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Campaign Speeches

      Includes speech on Puerto Rico, campaign speech endorsing the reelection of John R. Murdock of Arizona, and campaign speeches on communism and political honesty.

      Dates: 1952 June-October
      Container: Box 10, Folder 14
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Campaign Speeches

      Campaign speeches, statements by two women in support of Bosone for reelection, and retaliation against the William A. Dawson smear tactics.

      Dates: 1952 October
      Container: Box 10, Folder 15
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Radio Speeches

      Campaign speeches denouncing William A. Dawson's smear tactics and supporting her views, broadcast by Gordon Crowe for reelection of Reva Beck Bosone, speech dealing with Korea and communism, and "Hi, Neighbor" (1956)--a campaign speech extolling women to vote the Democratic ticket.

      Dates: 1952-1956
      Container: Box 10, Folder 16
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Statements for Articles on Specific Requests

      Messages to groups, statements for books and articles, editorials, and news releases for such groups as the American Heart Association and Utah State Federation of Labor and for such publications as Ladies' Home Journal and American Weekly.

      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box 11, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Statements and News Releases

      Messages of appreciation, endorsement of programs, and statements for newspapers for such groups as the Utah Association for the United Nations, the National, Council of the Churches of Christ, and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., and such publications as The American Press, the Salt Lake Tribune, Kansas City Star, and Labor Press Associated, Inc.

      Dates: 1951-1952
      Container: Box 11, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Magazine Articles on Reva Beck Bosone

      Mining and Contracting Review, Utah Magazine, Utah Club Woman, Democratic Digest, Pageant, and Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine.

      Dates: 1937-1952
      Container: Box 11, Folder 3
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Articles About or by Reva Beck Bosone

      Butcher Workman and Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

      Dates: 1952-1955
      Container: Box 11, Folder 4
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Newsletter Articles about Reva Beck Bosone

      Society of Mayflower Descendants Newsletter: Cal Chronicle from the University of California, Berkeley; Equal Rights Coalition; and Newscope from Westminster College.

      Container: Box 11, Folder 5
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: News Releases

      Remarks before Democratic Women of Utah, Exchange Club of Provo, CIO Labor Dinner, Kiwanis Club, National Council of Jewish Women, Sahara Club, and Sagebrush Club, on such subjects as women, Korea, housing, communism, reclamation, business, campaign issues, smear tactics, national health insurance, post offices, government spending, Indians, social security, mining, and George Albert Smith.

      Dates: 1950-1951
      Container: Box 11, Folder 6
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: News Releases

      Statement on a speech by President Harry S. Truman, cheese storage, announced candidacy, post offices, floods, price controls, Indians, socialism, tidelands oil, wetbacks, reclamation, character assassination and smear tactics, campaign speeches, and national health insurance before such groups as the Provo Kiwanis Club, National Rural Electrification Cooperative Association, and Women Garment Makers, and for such publications as the Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, Pleasant Grove Review, and Provo Herald.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 11, Folder 7
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: News Releases

      For Deseret News, Pleasant Grove Review, the St. Louis Glove-Democrat on campaign topics, post offices, Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce fiftieth anniversary, answer to the question "What can be done to bring the nation back from the low standard of morals to which it has fallen?" and suggestion of sending a delegation of mothers as ambassadors to foreign countries.

      Dates: 1952-1958
      Container: Box 11, Folder 8
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles
    • Description: Mr. Speaker (Sam Rayburn)

      Excerpts from the Congressional Record in tribute to Sam Rayburn.

      Container: Box 11, Folder 9
      Location: IV: Speeches and Articles

  • V: Campaigns and Traffic Court

    • Description: Campaign for Salt Lake City Commissioner

      Campaign flyer.

      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 12, Folder 1
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for Salt Lake City Commission

      Campaign flyers, letters of support, and speech asking for support.

      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 12, Folder 2
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for Salt Lake City Court Judge

      Campaign flyers and primary ballot with vote tally written in.

      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 12, Folder 3
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Traffic Court

      Correspondence generally in praise of Bosone's judgments in the court from those who appeared before her and those who worked in city government.

      Dates: 1936-1940
      Container: Box 12, Folder 4
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Traffic Court

      Correspondence in praise of judgments as well as letters from people outside the state who favored her methods and ideas.

      Dates: 1941-1952
      Container: Box 12, Folder 5
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Traffic Court

      Reports, publicity and articles, speech notes, and newsletters primarily praising Bosone's actions as a traffic judge.

      Dates: 1937-1946
      Container: Box 12, Folder 6
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      One letter of congratulation, speech on international law, ballot and election returns, campaign literature of both Bosone and William A. Dawson.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 12, Folder 7
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Publications, including The Democratic Digest, and state convention booklets.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 12, Folder 8
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Correspondence related to advertisements, advertising texts and literature, campaign pamphlets for Bosone and Ivy Baker Priest, and general 1950 campaign literature.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 12, Folder 9
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative (Smear Campaign, Fulton Lewis Letters)

      Correspondence generally in defense of Bosone against the radio attack made by Fulton Lewis, including some letters which support Lewis. Contains letters from friends and political associates like Elise Musser and Roxey Romney.

      Dates: 1952 May-June 10
      Container: Box 12, Folder 10
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative (Smear Campaign, Fulton Lewis Letters)

      Correspondence generally in defense of Bosone from associates like William T. Thurman, Herbert B. Maw, and Roxey Romney; also correspondence with David O. McKay of the L.D.S. church, William S. Hill and Wayne N. Aspinall of Colorado, and the NAACP.

      Dates: 1952 June 11-24
      Container: Box 12, Folder 11
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Letters from friends supporting Bosone's reelection; correspondence among staff members who developed campaign literature; statistics on government and campaign spending; and form letters seeking support.

      Dates: 1952 July-October
      Container: Box 12, Folder 12
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Declaration of Candidacy; advertisement texts and layouts; resolutions favoring candidacy; campaign materials used against Bosone by William A. Dawson, including her 1951 "Old Gray Mare" speech; and speeches about her candidacy and campaign.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 12, Folder 13
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Literature, pamphlets, flyers, and advertisements supporting Bosone and other Democratic candidates. One campaign folder on Hugh B. Mitchell, a democratic candidate for governor of Washington. Campaign expenditure reports and requirements and election statistics booklet.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 12, Folder 14
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Letters seeking support and letters used as campaign material or to state views by William A. Dawson, one from Lyndon Johnson, and letter of condolence for losing the election from Cal Rawlings.

      Dates: 1954 July-November
      Container: Box 12, Folder 15
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Statements, including Declaration of Candidacy; advertisement texts; and voting records of Bosone and W. A. Dawson.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 12, Folder 16
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Campaign for United States Representative

      Literature, flyers, and articles about Bosone; campaign literature about W. A. Dawson, Adelai E. Stevenson, and the general Democratic ticket; and pamphlet by Democratic National Committee on summaries of state registration and voting laws.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 12, Folder 17
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Democratic Fact Sheets--Administration

      Social security, "tight money," civil service, business, and other subjects.

      Container: Box 12, Folder 18
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Democratic Fact Sheets--Foreign Policy, Farm Policy

      Indo-China, cost of living, grain shortages, and farm prices.

      Container: Box 12, Folder 19
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Democratic Fact Sheets--Taxation, Public Power

      "Trickle-down" theory, federal sales tax, income tax, and power (energy) development.

      Container: Box 12, Folder 20
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Democratic Fact Sheets

      Public health, housing, welfare and education, commerce, and economy.

      Container: Box 12, Folder 21
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Democratic Fact Sheets

      Labor and veterans and "Promises and the Smile and Smear Campaign of 1952."

      Container: Box 12, Folder 22
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court
    • Description: Democratic Fact Sheets

      Security risks, communism and corruption, and "F.D.R. vs. Ike."

      Container: Box 12, Folder 23
      Location: V: Campaigns and Traffic Court

  • VI: Congress--80th and 83rd

  • VII: Women and Utah

    • Description: Women in Congress

      Correspondence about publications on women in Congress.

      Dates: 1950-77
      Container: Box 28, Folder 1
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Women in Congress

      Brief article about every woman who served in the United States Congress.

      Dates: 1917-1976
      Container: Box 28, Folder 2
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Equal Rights Amendment

      Postcard on the International Women's Year Conference of 1975 and publicity flyers in favor of the ERA.

      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 28, Folder 3
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Women Workers

      Bosone speech notes, newsletter, list of women lawyers, speeches (not Bosone) about women in politics, list of women's organizations, and pamphlet on Women's Part in Rural Life.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 4
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: General Federation of Women's Clubs, Utah Federation of Women's Clubs

      Correspondence, news articles about the commemorative stamp.

      Dates: 1939-1947
      Container: Box 28, Folder 5
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: General Federation of Women's Clubs, Utah Federation of Women's Clubs

      Publications and programs.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 6
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Soroptimist Clubs

      Correspondence, publications, club rosters, programs, and Bosone speech notes.

      Dates: 1940-1944
      Container: Box 28, Folder 7
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: National Order of Women Legislators

      Correspondence, reports on conferences, and poem.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 8
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah Order of Women Legislators

      Yearbook of membership.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 28, Folder 9
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Women's Italian American Civic League

      Membership lists.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 10
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers

      Convention program and Centennial Committee list.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 11
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Altrusa Club, Salt Lake City, Utah

      Yearbook.

      Dates: 1953-1954
      Container: Box 28, Folder 12
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah Chapter of American Gold Star Mothers

      Yearbook.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 28, Folder 13
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      Correspondence from and to Utah officials such as Governor J. Bracken Lee, State Senator B. M. Jolley, State Senator Elbert D. Thomas, and Lorenzo J. Bott, mayor of Brigham City, about Utah problems.

      Dates: 1949-1956
      Container: Box 28, Folder 14
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah Democrats

      Special bulletins of the Salt Lake County Democratic Committee (September-October 1950) and program for the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 28, Folder 15
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah State Democratic Committee

      Convention pamphlets and programs, invitation letter to reception by women democrats to meet Governor Averell Harriman of New York.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 16
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Salt Lake Couty Democratic District Organization

      Roster.

      Dates: 1956-1958
      Container: Box 28, Folder 17
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah Campaigns (not Bosone)

      Pamphlets, platforms, and songs.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 18
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Election Returns

      Total votes by party for congressmen (presidential years only) (1896-1952), congressional elections (1895-1954), congressional elections (1867-94) and, Utah returns (1946).

      Container: Box 28, Folder 19
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      Lists and directories of Utah democrats, newspapers, contributors, and miscellaneous notes and lists.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 20
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      Census advance reports (1950), Federal airport aid to Utah status of projects (1951), and state improvement plan and costs.

      Dates: 1950-1951
      Container: Box 28, Folder 21
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      The Utah Story: Here's What's Happened in Your State and supplements by Democratic National Committee, Utah Labor Market Bulletin (1951), and Utah Economic and Business Review (1952).

      Container: Box 28, Folder 22
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      1956 Court Calendar: Roster of Public Officials of the State of Utah and Counties.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 23
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      Pamphlet explaining the goals of the Council for Utah Education and Utah Foundation research report on financing higher education.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 24
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Salt Lake Couty Farm Bureau and Federal Girls Club

      Membership lists.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 25
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      Notes made by Bosone on Utah subjects.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 26
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      Editorial favorable to Bosone's Train Length Bill in the Railroad Trainman.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 27
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah

      NSD Clearfield 100% U.S. Defense Bond Celebration, 1952, program.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 28
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Utah Peace Officers

      Clipping from Utah Peace Officer listing members of the Utah Peace Officers' Association.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 29
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Salt Lake City Hearing on Problems of the Aged

      Program proposal, notes by Bosone, and proposed legislative amendments.

      Container: Box 28, Folder 30
      Location: VII: Women and Utah
    • Description: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

      Copy of a letter to Wallace 0. Walker from George J. Cannon of Beneficial Life Insurance Company about some "not-above-board" deals, with a note attached telling Bosone she should investigate and use for her campaign.

      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 28, Folder 31
      Location: VII: Women and Utah

  • VIII: Democratic Party

    • Description: Democratic National Committee

      Democratic Fact Book.

      Dates: 1954, 1956
      Container: Box 29, Folder 1
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Political Platforms Comparison of Republicans and Democrats

      Platforms of the Two Great Political Parties, 1932 to 1948, by Ralph H. Roberts, and The Democratic Platform 1952.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 2
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic National Committee, Women's Division

      Guidebook Designed for Democratic Organization in the County and Precinct.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 3
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic National Committee, Research Division

      Information sheets on a variety of subjects.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 4
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic National Committee, Research Division

      Suggested speeches which follow the party platform.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 5
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic National Committee

      Directory of state organizations and staff.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 6
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic National Committee

      Publications comparing the platforms and legislative records of the republicans and democrats.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 7
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic National Committee

      You Can Vote: Summaries of State Registration and Voting Laws, Ethel Y. Black, comp., 1950.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 8
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic Party

      Campaign songs.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 9
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic Party

      Article on democratic corruption; "A Challenge to Americans," Look, July 31, 1951; and miscellaneous.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 10
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic Party

      Handbook, a compilation of brief information about national issues (mimeograph).

      Container: Box 29, Folder 11
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Utah State Democratic Committee

      "Information Manual for District Workers, National Material" (mimeograph).

      Container: Box 29, Folder 12
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Democratic Party

      Political Dictionary: ... A Handbook for Liberals, 2nd ed.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 13
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Harry S. Truman

      Whistle-stop campaign speeches, including one made in the tabernacle in Salt Lake City, September 21, 1948.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 29, Folder 14
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Harry S. Truman

      Articles and clippings.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 15
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: General Douglas MacArthur

      Bosone's statement supporting Truman's removal, pamphlets, Congressional Record.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 16
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

      Articles on F.D.R.'s health and death.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 17
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Congressman Marcantonio of New York

      Voting record, 80th Congress 1947-48, for use in Bosone's campaign for reelection.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 18
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Averell Harriman

      Campaign pamphlets and speeches for presidency.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 19
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Adlai Stevenson

      Campaign statements for presidential election.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 29, Folder 20
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party
    • Description: Dean Acheson

      Article against him related to communism.

      Container: Box 29, Folder 21
      Location: VIII: Democratic Party

  • IX: Republican Party

    • Description: Republican Party

      Platform, Congressional Record, democratic statements on republican policies, and Washington Newsletter published by the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 1
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Republican Party

      Guaranty Survey, pamphlet on economic trends from conservative viewpoint.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 2
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Communism

      Pamphlets and articles on fighting communism in the United States.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 3
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Communism

      Congressional report "The Communist 'Peace' Offensive: A Campaign to disarm and defeat the United States," Congressional Record.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 4
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: McCarthyism

      McCarthyism: The Fight for America, by Senator Joe McCarthy, 1952, questions and answers on many subjects dealing with communism and McCarthy's actions.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 5
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: McCarthyism

      Articles on McCarthy and the "ism."

      Container: Box 30, Folder 6
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: McCarthyism

      The Shameful Years: Thirty Years of Soviet Espionage in the United States, United States House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, 1951.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 7
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: McCarthyism

      The McCarthy Record, Wisconsin Citizens' Committee on McCarthy's Record, 1952.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 8
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Republican Party

      "Scare Words Index," phrases used by republicans about the communist threat, compiled by the Democratic party, mimeograph.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 9
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Eisenhower Administration

      Speeches by Eisenhower and articles about the administration.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 10
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Eisenhower Administration

      Democratic National Committee Fact Sheets about the administration, democratic songs about Eisenhower and the republicans, "Town Meeting of the Air" bulletin "Do We Want a Military Man in the White House?"

      Container: Box 30, Folder 11
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Republican Party

      Corruption, Democratic Fact Sheets, notes.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 12
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: William A. Dawson

      Voting Record, 80th Congress.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 13
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: William A. Dawson

      Speeches and statements from the Congressional Record, 83rd Congress, First Session.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 14
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: William A. Dawson

      Speeches and statements from the Congressional Record, 83rd Congress, Second Session.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 15
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: William A. Dawson

      Campaign literature, Bosone information notes on Dawson.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 16
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Robert A. Taft

      Articles and papers about Taft and his policies as a presidential candidate.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 17
      Location: IX: Republican Party
    • Description: Wayne Morse

      Interview text.

      Container: Box 30, Folder 18
      Location: IX: Republican Party

  • X: United States Post Office Department, Judicial Officer

  • XI: Subject Files

    • Description: Americans for Democratic Action

      Pamphlet history of the organization and its stand on issues.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 1
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: American Judicature Society, Journal of the, vol. 36
      Dates: 1952 June
      Container: Box 32, Folder 2
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Cases Pending, Military

      Cases of Utahns seeking discharges from the military in which Bosone was involved.

      Dates: 1952 October-November
      Container: Box 32, Folder 3
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Cases Pending, Military
      Dates: 1952 December
      Container: Box 32, Folder 4
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Cases Pending, Military
      Dates: 1952 December
      Container: Box 32, Folder 5
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Cases Pending, Military
      Dates: 1952 December
      Container: Box 32, Folder 6
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Cases Pending, Miscellaneous

      Cases of Utahns seeking some kind of federal action in which Bosone was involved as congresswoman.

      Dates: 1952 November-December
      Container: Box 32, Folder 7
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Deseret News Ballots

      Printed in the newspaper on different issues, to be filled out and sent to congressional representatives.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 8
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Faneuil Hall, Preservation

      Correspondence about preserving the building with John W. McCormack, house speaker; Leverett Saltonstall, chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations; and others.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 9
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: "On the Roman Road to Ruin," by H. Ralph Burton, mimeograph

      Comparison of Roman civilization and United States civilization.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 10
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Society of Mayflower Descendants

      Membership lists.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 11
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Statesman Involuntarily Retired (SIR) Club

      Correspondence, background, and charter members

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 32, Folder 12
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: UNESCO Citizen's Committee

      Resume and meeting groups of the 1955 Work Conference at the Institute of World Affairs, University of Utah.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 13
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Washington Report

      Informative discussions on a variety of topics.

      Container: Box 32, Folder 14
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Westminster College Commencement

      Correspondence, from people invited to the commencement, either accepting or regrets.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 32, Folder 15
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: Westminster College Commencement

      Bosone's address and copies of the programs.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 32, Folder 16
      Location: XI: Subject Files
    • Description: University of Utah, Honorary Degree

      Letters congratulating Bosone on the degree to be conferred upon her at the commencement exercises.

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 32, Folder 17
      Location: XI: Subject Files

  • XII: Newsclippings

    • Description: Newsclippings

      Newspaper articles by date and subject, about Bosone and her political campaigns as well as subjects related to her congressional committee work.

      Container: Box 33
      Location: XII: Newsclippings
    • Description: Newsclippings

      Newspaper articles by date and subject, about Bosone and her work on congressional committees as well as McCarthyism, General Douglas MacArthur, and political cartoons.

      Container: Box 34
      Location: XII: Newsclippings

  • XIII: Scrapbooks and Campaign Poster

  • XIV: Addendum

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Alcoholism--Utah
  • Indians of North America--Government relations
  • Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
  • Legislation--United States
  • Mothers--Political activity--Utah--20th century--Archives
  • Water conservation--Utah
  • Women judges--Utah--Archives

Personal Names

  • Bosone, Joseph P.
  • Dawson, William A., 1903-1981

Corporate Names

  • Colorado River Storage Project (U.S.)--Archives
  • United States. Congress. House--Elections--20th century
  • United States. Congress. House--Officials and employees--Archives
  • University of Utah. College of Law--Alumni and alumnae--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Biographies
  • Business correspondence
  • Campaign paraphernalia
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Court decisions and opinions
  • Fliers (Ephemera)
  • Legislative materials
  • Newspapers
  • Personal correspondence
  • Personal correspondence
  • Press releases
  • Scrapbooks
  • Speeches
  • Technical reports
  • Yearbooks

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