Title: U.S. Senate Papers

Date/Date Range :   1929-1978

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection U.S. Senate Papers, 1929-1978, contains eight cards and letters from eight U.S. Senators from Tennessee: Lawrence D. Tyson, Thomas Stewart, Kenneth McKellar, Estes Kefauver, Albert Gore, Sr., Ross Bass, Howard Baker, and Jim Sasser.

Call number: MS-2307

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

The Special Collections Library purchased this collection in March of 2004.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], U.S. Senate Papers, MS-2307. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Carey Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) was a U.S. House Representative (1939-1949), U.S. Senator (1950-1963), and 1956 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1924 and Yale Law School in 1927. During his years in the Senate, he served on the Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, and sponsored the Kefauver-Harris Drug Control Act of 1962.

Albert Arnold Gore, Sr., (1907-1998) attended the University of Tennessee, graduated from what is now Middle Tennessee State University in 1932, and attained a law degree from the Nashville YMCA law school in 1936. He was Tennessee's Commissioner of Labor (1937), a U.S. House Representative (1939-1953), and a U.S. Senator (1953-1971). While a Senator, Gore supported the federal minimum wage bill, proposed the first federal health insurance program enacted into law, and voted for bills for the Interstate Highway System.

Howard H. Baker, Jr., (b. 1925) was a U.S. Navy Lieutenant during World War II, U.S. Senator (1966-1985), and President Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff. He attended the University of the South, Tulane University, and the University of Tennessee. He received a law degree from the University of Tennessee. Baker served on the 1973-1974 Senate Watergate Committee and as the Senate Minority and then Majority Leader.

James Ralph Sasser (1936- ) was an attorney, U.S. Senator (1976-1994), and Ambassador to China. He attended the University of Tennessee, graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1958, and received a degree in 1961 from the Vanderbilt Law School. He chaired the Senate Budget Committee and several subcommittees, including the military construction subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations and the subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy of the Senate Banking Committee.

This collection U.S. Senate Papers, 1929-1978, contains eight cards and letters from eight U.S. Senators from Tennessee. Four of the items are from the 1960s and 1970s, two of which are from 1978. The remaining date between 1929 and 1952. Most are short letters to their constituents. The letters of Al Gore, Howard Baker, Jim Sasser, and Estes Kefauver express their opinions on various political matters.

• United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
• United States. Congress. Senate.