J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Scott M. Matheson papers
ACCN 0783
44.75 linear feet
1916-2001
The Scott M. Matheson papers (1916-2001) contain correspondence, campaign materials, reports, interview transcripts, research materials, news clippings, environmental documents, information concerning the Utah Democratic Policy Commission and other boards and committees, and other documents relating to Scott M. Matheson's career as governor of Utah from 1976 to 1984.
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Scott Milne Matheson was born on 8 January 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, to Scott Milne and Adele Adams Matheson. His family moved to Utah, settling in Parowan and then Salt Lake City. Matheson earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1950, then received a law degree from Stanford University in 1952. He practiced law in Iron County and then worked for the Union Pacific Railroad starting in 1958. He served as governor of Utah from 1976 to 1985. Matheson died on 7 October 1990 from cancer.
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Gift of Scott Matheson in 1984 and 1992.
Addendum gift of Norma Matheson in 2002, 2004 and 2009.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
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The Scott M. Matheson papers (1916-2001) contain correspondence, campaign materials, reports, interview transcripts, research materials, news clippings, environmental documents, information concerning the Utah Democratic Policy Commission and other boards and committees, and other documents relating to Scott M. Matheson's career as governor of Utah from 1976 to 1984. Biographical sketches, position papers, and news clippings are located in box 1. Course materials for Political Science R-1 can be found in box 2. Documents relating to Awards and Programs dating from 1977 to 1985 are contained in boxes 3-4. Subject files in alphabetical order, including research materials, are located in boxes 5-20. Personal papers are contained in box 21. Get well correspondence is located in boxes 22-23. Newspapers and publications, including a Salt Lake Tribune series, are contained in box 24. Additional course materials can be found in box 25. Documents concerning the Philo T. Farnsworth Statutory Commission are included in box 26. Documents relating to the Utah Taxpayers Association are contained in box 27. Boxes 28-28A contain information about the Utah Democratic Policy Commission. Box 29 includes documents concerning Project Bold, a proposal for Utah land consolidation and exchange. Environmental papers, including information about the Nature Conservancy, acid rain, and environment and resource management can be found in box 34. Information concerning medical issues, such as the Institute of Medicine and the Alaska Public Health Commission, is contained in boxes 35-36. Papers related to aspects of Utah and United States judicial and legal systems are located in box 37. Boxes 38-51 contain information on boards, committees, and commissions, with additional information pertaining to the Democratic Policy Commission located in boxes 40-51. Records concerning nuclear waste negotiations in 1989 can be found in box 52. Miscellaneous documents are contained in box 53. Youth issues, such as teenage pregnancy prevention, are contained in box 54. Boxes 55-55A include printed works, the bulk of which are government published documents. Speeches given by Scott M. Matheson are located in boxes 56-63; and news clippings are contained in boxes 64-66, with 1992 campaign literature located at the end of box 66. Addenda are found in boxes 67-79.
See also the Scott M. Matheson photograph collection
(P0290) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Democratic Party (Utah)
Democratic Party Commission--Records and correspondence
Utah--Politics and government--20th century--Sources
Political Campaigns
Interviews
Reports
Speeches
Clippings
Correspondence
Biographical Sketches, Position Papers, and News Clippings
1
Course Materials, Political Science R-1
2
Awards and Programs
1977-1985
3
Awards and Programs
1977-1985
4
Subject files A-W
Air Pollution
5
1
Allen-Warner Valley Power Project
5
2-4
Bureau of Reclamation Budgets
5
5
Cost Sharing
5
6
Central Utah Project (CUP) and the Ute Compact
5
7-8
Economy-Utah
6
1
Energy and the Public Lands, II
1977
6
2
General Energy Development
6
3
Endangered Species
6
4
Fact Sheets, Taxes
6
5
Floods
6
6
Gas Crisis
1979
6
7
Hazard Migration Plan , Utah
1984
6
8
Health Statistics
6
9
Intergovernmental Water Policy Task Force
7
1-2
Interviews
1985
7
3-15
These folders contain transcripts of interviews with Kent Briggs, Dale Carpenter, Dallin Jenson, Jack Dunlop, Ken Olsen, Kent Briggs, Larry Lunnen, Mike Graham, Mike Youngren, Mike Zimmerman, Miles and Becker, and Norma Matheson.
Interviews
1985
8
This box contains transcripts of interviews given by Governor Matheson in January-August 1985.
Legislative Report of the Permanent Community Impact Fund for Fiscal Year 1984 , by the Division of Community Development
9
1
Kaiparowits
9
2
Legal Study: Extent of State Control or Reclamation on Federal Land
9
3
Miscellaneous (Westpo., Federal and State Water Rights, etc.)
9
4
Mining
9
5
MX Missile
9
6
NGA Water Subcommittee
9
7-8
NGA Water Subcommittee, Cost Sharing
9
9-10
Oil Shale Development (Including Tar Sands)
10
1-2
Prevention of Significant Deterioration (DSP)
10
3
Project Bold
10
4
Regional Coal Team (RCT)
10
5
Public Lands
10
6
Radiation
11
1-2
Radiation, Sheep Documents
11
3-4
Regional Coal Team (RCT)
11
5
Remarks to the 43rd and 45th Legislatures
11
6
"Report of the Written Responses on National Energy Policy"
May 1977
11
7
Research Materials, Clean Air Act Amendments
1977
12
Research Materials, History of Utah Wilderness
13
Research Materials, Intermountain Power Project
14
Research Materials, MX Missile
15
Research Materials, Project Bold
16
Research Materials, Sagebrush Rebellion
17
John Singer
18
1
State of Utah Water
1980-1982
18
2-3
Illinois Brick, Testimony
18
4
Thistle Mudslide
18
5-6
Utah Coal for Southwest Gas Markets
18
7
Utah Land Law Review Commission: Final Report and Proposed Legislation
1984
18
8
Utah Natural Resources and Energy Annual Reports
1981-1983
18
9-10
Water Issues
19
1-3
Weteyes
19
4
White River Dam
20
1-2
Wilderness
20
3
Wilderness Vol. II
20
4-5
Personal
Parowan Historical Development
21
1
Friday Tennis
21
2
Volleyball
1987-1989
21
3
Stanford Club of Utah's Red and White Celebration
1987
21
4
Get Well Correspondence from Children and Other Persons Throughout Utah and the United States
22
Get Well Correspondence
23
Newspapers and Publications
Memo: Lunch with Ogden Standard Examiner Staff
1985
24
1
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Handwritten Notes on a Sun Valley Speech
1985
24
2
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Chapter Five of a Book
24
3
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Notes for Chapter 8
24
4
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Scott M. Matheson Interview Transcripts
24
5
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Drafts of 2, 4 and 5
1985
24
6
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Drafts 1 and 2 of Installment 1
1985
24
7-8
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Natural Resources Draft
1985
24
9
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Remarks at the A.P. Conference
1985
24
10
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Unedited Draft of A.P. Speech
1985
24
11
Salt Lake Tribune Series: Introduction
1985
24
12
Deseret News: Out of Balance Series
1986
24
13
Scott M. Matheson Book
1986
24
14
Course Materials
U of U Course Material, Political Science 532R-1
25
1
Kennedy School of Government
25
2
Intergovernmental Politics and Natural Resource Management
25
3
Philo T. Farnsworth Statuary Hall Commission
Philo T. Farnsworth Statuary Hall Commission Dinner
1989
26
1
Philo T. Farnsworth Statuary Hall Commission
1988-1989
26
2-4
Utah Taxpayers Association
1989
27
Utah Democratic Policy Commission
Utah Democratic Policy Commission (UDPC) Education
28
1
UDPC Miscellaneous News Clippings and Papers
28
2-3
UDPC, Federation of Democratic Commissions
28
4
UDPC, Education
28
5
UDPC-Social Service
28A
1
UDPC-Papers
28A
2
UDPC-Drafts from Subcommittees
28A
3
UDPC-Miscellaneous Papers
28A
9
Project Bold
1988-1990
29
Environment
Utahns for Canyonlands
1984-1987
30
1-3
National Resource Council
1990
30
4
Institute for Resource Management
1985
30
11
The Nature Conservancy Poster
1990
30
12
The Nature Conservancy
Meeting
1987
31
1
The Wild Strawberry River
1987
31
2
Reports
1986
31
3
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1987
31
4
Utah Bioreserves
31
5-6
Deep Creek Basin
31
7
Correspondence
31
8
Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan
31
9
The Parks and Wildlife Bond Issue
31
10
Utah Projects
31
11
Stillwater
31
12
Reports and Pamphlets
31
13
Miscellaneous Papers
31
14
Great Basin
31
15
Correspondence
31
16
Acid Rain
1989
32
1-3
Folder 2 also includes information concerning the Center for Clean Air Policy.
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
1987
32
4-5
Acid Rain
1985-1990
33
Environment and Resource Management
1985-1986
34
Institute for Resource Management
1985
34
1
Central Utah Project-Water for Utah's Future
1985
34
2
Central Utah Project Correspondence
1985
34
3
League of Women Voters Central Utah Project Guide
1985
34
4
Central Utah Project Correspondence
1985
34
5
Scott M. Matheson Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources
1986
34
6
Western Governors Association: Western Water Management
1986
34
7
Medical Issues
Alaska Public Health Commission
1986-1988
35
1
Institute of Medicine
1986-1989
35
2
Institute of Medicine-Rosenthal Lecture
1988-1989
35
3-4
Utah Health Care Cost Management Study
1979
36
1
Statement of Health Policy: A Prescription to Improve the Health Status of Utahans
1989
36
2
Utah Hospital Association
1990
36
3
Coalition for Non-Profit Hospitals
1989
36
4-5
Judicial and Law
Judicial Conference
1987
37
1
Utah Legal Services
1988-1990
37
2
Legislative Activities of the Utah State Bar
1989
37
3
Supreme Court Historical Society
1989-1990
37
4
American Arbitration Association
1989
37
5
Judicial Salary Increase
1988-1990
37
6
Study of Attorney General's Office
1990
37
7
Salt Lake Courts Complex Feasibility Study
1989
37
8
Boards and Committees
Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations
1986
38
1
Documents Concerning the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Board of Directors
38
2
Center for the New West-Phil Burgess
1989
38
3
County Council Form of Government
1989
38
4
Jake Garn Institute for Financial Studies
38
5
Stewart Hansen Sr. Society
38
6
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
38
7
Foundation for Future Choices
38
8
S.L. Convention and Visitors Bureau
38
9
Seismic Study Committee
1990
38
10
National Commission on Jobs and Small Business
39
This box contains correspondence, administrative papers, copies of drafts, and the final report of the commission.
Democratic Policy Commission
Roundtable on Family and the Community
1986
40
1
Executive Summaries, Roundtables and Reports
1986
40
2
Information Folder of Selected Press Clippings
40
3
Miscellaneous Papers of the Task Force on Foreign Policy
40
4
Report of the Midwestern Regional Roundtable on the Rural Economy
1986
40
5
Draft 6 of Report on Foreign Policy
40
6
Democrats Making It Work
40
7
First Draft of "Investing in People"
40
8
Paul G. Kirk Jr. Remarks
40
9
Review of Issues Committee on Family and the Community
1980
40
10
Report Draft: New Choices in a Changing America
40
11
Report Draft: New Choices in a Changing America
1986
40
12
Democrats Making it Work
40
13
What It Means To Be A Democrat
40
14
Democratic Party and the Challenge of Leadership
40
15
Notebook and Report
1985
41
1
Documents
1984-1986
41
2
Briefing Book, Defense and Foreign Policy
1986
41
3
Briefing Book, Boston Meeting
1986
41
4
Newspaper Articles
1986
41
5
Correspondence
1985
41
6
Policy Reports, Newsletters and Correspondence
1986
41
7
Report
42
1
Report Draft
42
2
Correspondence and Miscellaneous
42
3
Draft and Issues
42
4
Discussion Draft
42
5
Scott M. Matheson Folder
42
6
Scott M. Matheson Regional Roundtable Folder
42
7
Schedule
1986
43
1
Briefing Book
1986
43
2
Doylene Largent Papers from an Atlanta Meeting
43
3
Plenary Session 2, Atlanta Meetings
43
4
The Regional Roundtables
43
5
"A Fair and Simple Tax System: North Dakota's Commissioner Fair Share Program" Report
43
6
Miscellaneous Articles and Papers
43
7
Correspondence
44
1
Coverage
44
2
Background Article
44
3
In House Analysis of National Governor's Races
44
4
Draft Two on the Rural Economy
44
5
Rural Economy Report Draft
44
6
Correspondence
44
7-8
Correspondence
1986
44
9
Correspondence Concerning Charles Bollard
44
10
Sorenson Draft on Foreign Policy Task Force
44
11
Correspondence and Papers
44
12
News Clippings
44
13
Papers
44
14
Speeches and Reports
45
1
Printed Copy of a Final Report
45
2
Background Information on the National Education Association
45
3
Roundtable Recommendations
46
1
Background Information
46
2-3
Correspondence
46
4-6
Report Drafts
1986
47
1
Interoffice Memos
47
2
Steering and Drafting Committee
47
3
Enclosures
47
4
Drafts
1985
47
5
Interoffice Memos
47
6
Democratic National Committee Reports and Minutes
47
7
Speeches
47
8
Correspondence
48
1
Commission
48
2
Correspondence
48
3-4
Galston Presentation
1985
48
5
News Clippings
48
6
Advance Copy of Democrat Fact Book
1986
49
1
Correspondence
49
2
Membership and Addresses
49
3
Correspondence
49
4
Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper
49
5
Reports
49
6
Tax Notes
49
7
Organization
50
1
Memorandum
1985
50
2
Papers
50
3
Steering Committees
1985
50
4
Mass Mailings
50
5-6
Articles and Correspondence
51
Nuclear Waste Negotiations
1989
52
Miscellaneous
Central Utah Project: Special Elections Correspondence
53
1
Unitary Tax
53
2
United Way
1990
53
3
American Energy Assurance Council
53
4
California Legislative Roster
1981-1982
53
5
Electronic Battlefield Proposal
53
6
Sundance Water Conference
53
7
Mountainwest Center For Regional Studies
53
8
Kent Conrad Press Conference
53
9
Glen Canyon Trust
53
10-12
National Governor's Association
53
13-14
Youth Issues
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
54
1
Coalition for Utah's Future
54
2-5
Juvenile Justice Board
54
6-11
These folders contain transcripts of the proceedings of workshops, a written speech entitled, "A Governor's Perspective on Juvenile Justice in Utah," a travel invoice, a pamphlet on juvenile justice reform in the "Bellweather States," and a memo on the Vancouver Multi-Courts Facility Evaluation Follow Up Meeting held in 1989.
Printed Works
"The Presidential Appointees Handbook"
55
1
"Dismantling the State: the Theory and Practice of Privatization"
55
2
"Water Values and Markets: Emerging Management Tools"
55
3
"American Bar Association Journal"
55
4
"Of Acceptable Risk: Science and the Determination of Safety"
55
5
"California and the 21st Century: Foundations for a Competitive Society," Volumes 1 and 2
55
6-7
"Rebuilding the Road to Opportunity: Turning Point for America's Economy"
55
8
"Meeting California's Competitiveness Challenge"
55
9
"California's Economic Future"
55
10
"Freedom," Volume 18, Number 8
55
11
"Gay Writes"
55
12
"Colorado Forum: Business Leadership for Colorado's Future"
55
13
"Intergovernmental Perspective"
55
14-15
"Fix the Roof while the Sun is Still Shining"
55
16
"New Realities"
55
17-18
"Opportunity of Every American: Report of the Industrial and Entrepreneurial Committee of the Democratic Policy Commission"
55
19
Democratic Fact Book: "Democrats in the 80's"
1986
55
20
Sigma Chi
55
21
"Democratic Fact Book: Democrats in the 80s"
1986
55A
1
Sigma Chi
55A
1
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
56
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
57
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
58
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
59
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
60
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
61
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
62
Scott M. Matheson Speeches
63
News Clippings
64
News Clippings
65
News Clippings and Campaign Literature
1992
66
Correspondence and Speeches
Correspondence
1979-1989
67
1-8
Speeches
1979-1984
67
9-12
Speeches and Subject Files
Speeches
1986-1990
68
1-7
Acid Rain
1983
68
8
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
1984
68
9
Ball, Inaugural
1976-1977
68
10
Ball, Governors
1983
68
11
Bipartisan Budget Appeal
1983-1984
69
1
Budget Amendment
1982
69
2
Clean Air Act Reauthorization, Western Governors' Policy Office
1981
69
3
Colorado River Storage Project
1983
69
4
Democratic Party, National Issues
1981-1984
69
5
Duke University Gubernatorial Fellows Program
1984
69
6
Federalism and the Federal Budget
1981-1982
69
7-11
Federalism and the Federal Budget
1982-1984
70
1-3
Fine Arts Bicentennial and O. C. Tanner Concerns
1976-1982
70
4
Health
1989-1990
70
5
Michael T. MacKay, Extradition
1984
70
6
National Governors Association
1982-1983
70
7-8
Polling Results and Utah Issues
1978-1984
70
9
Project Bold
1979-1984
71
1-3
Safety Council Award
1983
71
4
Special Session
1981
71
5
Supreme Court Cases
1982-1984
71
6
Unitary Taz
1984
71
7
Utah Wilderness
1983-1984
72
1
Water Issues, National Carter Administration
1981
72
2
Western Regional Reorganization Proposal
1982-1984
72
3
Vitro Tailings
1982
72
4
Programs, Commencement
1981-1984
72
5
"Research Study of Senator Orrin Hatch"
1982
72
6
Susan Taylor, "An Analysis of the Leadership Style of Governor Scott M. Matheson"
1984
72
7
Quotes
1982-1988
72
8
News Clippings
1981-1984
73
Correspondence, Cards and Memoranda
Correspondence
1976-1984
74
Correspondence
1974-1989
75
1-3
Correspondence, Elementary School Children
1976-1984
75
4
Telegrams and Mail Grams
1976
75
5
Cards
1976-1989
75
6
Memoranda
1984
75
7
Publications
"A Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit"
1985
76
1
"The Beehive"
1981
76
2
"Biographical Sketches of Utah's First Ladies"
1981
76
3
"Matheson's 'pulse' on Issues Has Kept His Success Ticking", The Daily Utah Chronicle
1984
76
4
Duke Policy News
1985
76
5
The Governors Center
76
6
Evaluation of the 1982 Seminar for New Governors
1982
76
7
Fifty Governors Thoughts on Education
1983
76
8
David Bigler, "That God Provoking People, The 1853 Letters of Jotham Goodell on a Winter with the Mormons," Manuscript
76
9
Published as
Journal of Energy Law and Policy
1985
76
10
"S" Book
1916-1917
76
11-12
"Songs and Yells"
1919
76
13
Law and Order Magazine , Guest Editorial
1979
76
14
First Security Magazine
76
15
National Governors' Association Winter Meeting
1983
76
16
The Nature Conservancy
1988
76
17
The New American
1986
76
18
New Choices in a Changing America
1986
76
19
Parsons, Behle and Latimer, News
1985
76
20
Politics at the Hinckly Institute
1985
76
21
Profiles of Utah Peoples
77
1
Res Gestae
1984
77
2
The Rotary Bee
1981
77
3
Scott Matheson Makes Sense
1980
77
4
Tragedy or Destiny
1968
77
5
State Opinion Report
1982
77
6
Utah Bar Journal
1989
77
7
Utah Bar Letter
1968
77
8
Utah Bar Review
1982
77
9
Utah, New Energy and Direction
1985
77
10
"Utah" Political Description
77
11
Utah State Bar 1998 Achievement Awards
1988
77
12
Utah Systems Planning
1982
77
13
Utah 2000, A High Development Scenario
1980
77
14
A Vote for the Beard
77
15
General Materials
Addresses
77
16
"Agenda for the Eighties"
1980
77
17
Campaign Materials
77
18-19
Mondale, Campaign
1984
77
20
Campaign Publicity
77
21
Certificates
1985-1987
77
22
Court Cases Inventory
1965-1980
77
23
Democratic Committee Materials
1976-1984
77
24
Governors Appreciation Dinner
1979
78
1
Governors Budget Retreat Booklet
1978-1980
78
2-3
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
1984
78
4
Matheson's Briefing Book, Seminar for New Governors
1982
78
5
Programs
1977-1989
78
6
Remarks about Matheson
1981-1985
78
7
Matheson, Remarks
1977-1984
78
8
A Survey of Voter Attitudes in the State of Utah
1983
78
9
Vote Predictions
1984
78
10
News Clippings
1976-1989
79