Senator Conrad Burns Papers, 1989-2006

This series contains letters written to the Senator by constituents throughout his term in office. The letters contain discussions of issues important to the writers such as impending legislation, contemporary events such as elections, and concerns they have with Montana and the wider world. Each letter usually has the response to the letter stapled to it, although not every letter received a response. The sub-series is arranged in chronological order by congressional session, but not by topic. Each letter has a log sheet identifying the topic or topics discussed. The letters are organized not by topic or date, but by a log number system devised by the Senator’s office.

Thank you notes, Executive Correspondence, and other correspondence identified and organized by staff. Unlike Constituent Correspondence, this sub-series has folder titles instead of log numbers.

Correspondence from Individuals identified as VIPs by Senator’s staff in original inventory. As with constituent correspondence, each letter has a log sheet and log number attached to it.

Consists of a sample of response ballots sent to the Senator’s office regarding issues such as Social Security, the Wilderness Bill, and others. Ballots are multiple copies of one statement, the only difference being the signature of each person who signed, and additional comments in places. Ballots were sampled from a larger number at random.

Correspondence between the Senator, his staff and others regarding legislation (Dear Colleague Letters, for example)

This sub-series contains the documents outlining the Senator’s voting record during his time in office.

Consists of briefing books used by the senator and his staff on various subjects

Consists of files related to the Senator’s work on various committees as identified in their folder title.

Files pertaining to legislative assistants of Senator Burns and their respective expertise (such as Taxes, Environment, Health and so on). A folder level inventory is available, but some items in box may not be listed.

Files from the Senator’s field offices in Montana (Bozeman, Missoula, Great Falls, Kalispell)

Contains files devoted to a specific legislative subject such as Environment or Health. Documents in sub-series consists of drafts and communications for legislation, research materials. Organized by congressional session, but not broken down by specific subject. A folder level inventory is available, but some items in box may not be listed.

These boxes contain the Senator's daily schedules from his time in office

Files related to the daily running of the Senator’s office such as office procedure manuals.

Files detailing events organized and attended by senator Burns such as the Montana Women’s Conference, or events organized by the Burns office and campaign

This is a single box of files related to the Senator’s various campaigns.

Collection of press clippings from throughout his time in office, from various Montana Newspapers-both original clippings and copies. It also contains clippings of articles written by and about Senator Burns, on a wide variety of subjects. Note: The last four boxes in this series consists of unsorted clippings from various years.

Press clippings organized by subject by the Senator’s staff (they were left in their original order and folders to preserve this). This sub-series also consists of media surveys about Senator Burns.

Documents complied by the Senator's Press Office and released to the public

This box holds some of the speeches given by Senator Burns that were pulled from other boxes in press. It doesn't contain all of the speeches in his career, or in the collection, but what has been found so far.