University of Wyoming
"©" 2005 University of Wyoming
Thyra Thomson was the Secretary of State in Wyoming from 1962-1986. For many of those years, she was the highest elected woman state official in the United States. She was active with the Equal Rights Amendment, public land and oil lease issues, and securities.
Collection contains biographical information (1961-1986); personal and professional correspondence (1966-1986); press releases (1962-1986); speeches (1962-1965); and subject files (1931-1986) containing correspondence, newspaper clippings and research notes regarding oil and gas lotteries, securities, public land use, the Equal Rights Amendment, and feature stories on Thomson and E. Luella Galliver, University of Wyoming Dean of Women.
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There are no other known archival collections created by Thyra Thomson at the date of processing.
The American Heritage Center received the Thyra Thomson Papers in 1987 and 1994.
The collection was processed by Alexandra Cardin in January 2023.
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Thyra Thompson Papers, Collection Number 09418, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
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