Collection is open for research.
Gift of George W. Joseph, Jr., 1952.
George W. Joseph was a Republican senator who died while running for governor in 1930. Joseph ran on a platform committed to state rather than private development of hydroelectric power on the Columbia River.
George William Joseph papers, Mss 1073, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Typescript of book on George W. Joseph and Julius L. Meier, Mss 1019, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Collection includes correspondence, transcripts of court hearings, speeches and radio addresses, political notes, campaign materials and scrapbooks relating to political matters. The papers chiefly cover the 1928-1930 period during which George W. Joseph fought the local proposed electric power company merger, opposed Judge John L. Rand's candidacy for Oregon Supreme Court justice, had lawyer Thomas Mannix disbarred, and was himself disbarred. Correspondence mainly relates to his candidacy for Oregon governor. Materials also include some correspondence of George W. Joseph, Jr. regarding Julius L. Meier's candidacy after his father's death.
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