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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract

Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.

Dates: 1988-1993

Democratic Activist Women's Network, District 1 records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0602
Abstract

Organization created to recruit, educate, and elect Democratic women to public office in Iowa.

Dates: 1981-2009

Dorothy Carpenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0278
Abstract

Republican who served in Iowa House of Representatives from 1980 to 1994.

Dates: 1979-1995

Elaine Szymoniak papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0166
Abstract

Iowa State senator, Des Moines City Council member, and hearing and speech consultant.

Dates: 1974-2004

Josephine Gruhn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0382
Abstract

Britt, Iowa-born member of the Iowa House of Representatives and vice-chair of the Committee on Agriculture during the farm crisis of the 1980s.

Dates: 1982-1992

Kathleen Halloran Chapman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0263
Abstract

Attorney and Democrat who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and again in 1996.

Dates: 1977-1999

Lena Belle Bock papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0118
Abstract

Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1960 to 1964.

Dates: 1960-1981

Marguerite Cothorn papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0402
Abstract

Social worker and political activist, who served on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from 1983 to 1984.

Dates: 1928-1995

Mary Louise Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0027
Abstract

First woman to chair the Republican National Committee, serving from 1974 to 1977. Co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.

Dates: 1925-1997

Myrtilla F. Levin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0032
Abstract

Active in the Republican Party, mayor of Newton, Iowa, and executive director of Iowa Business Council.

Dates: 1971-2010

Virginia Becker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0540
Abstract

Scrapbooks of Bremer County, Iowa, Farm Bureau woman.

Dates: 1976-1993

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Archives (groupings) 10
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1971-1980 7
Iowa 7
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Abortion 3
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Des Moines (Iowa) 3
Political candidates 3
Rural women 3
Women in agriculture 3
1961-1970 2
African American women -- Iowa 2
Community activists 2
Municipal government 2
Oral histories 2
Political participation 2
Politicians 2
Speeches 2
Women 2
2001-2010 1
20th century 1
Administrative records 1
African American women 1
Aging 1
Agriculture 1
Bremer County (Iowa) 1
Campaign funds 1
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 1
Children of deaf parents 1
Christmas cards 1
City council members 1
Civil rights 1
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Cultural artifacts 1
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Dickinson County (Iowa) 1
Drug abuse 1
Education 1
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Emmet County (Iowa) 1
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Garner (Iowa) 1
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Jewish women -- Iowa 1
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Newton (Iowa) 1
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Teachers 1
Video recordings 1
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Washington (D.C.) 1
Waverly (Iowa) 1
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Women -- Societies and clubs 1
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Names
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 4
Republican Party (Iowa) 4
Chapman, Kathleen "Kay" Halloran (1937-) 2
Democratic Party (Iowa) 2
Drake University 2
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Gruhn, Josephine, 1927-2015 2
Adams, Janet (1937-) 1
American Association for the United Nations 1
Anderson, Helen 1
Baxter, Elaine (1933-2021) 1
Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
Becker, Virginia (1918-2009) 1
Berg, Orville 1
Bloom, Amy 1
Bock, Lena Belle, 1904-2007 1
Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
Bush, George, 1924- 1
Carl, Janet (1948-) 1
Carpenter, Dorothy, 1933-2011 1
Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 1
Cohen, Gertrude (1913-2016) 1
Conklin, Charlene, 1929-2022 1
Corning, Joy, 1932- 1
Cothorn, Marguerite, 1909-1998 1
Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
Democratic Activist Women's Network 1
Des Moines Human Rights Commission 1
Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 1
Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922- 1
Duncan, Bob 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Garman, Teresa, 1937- 1
Gentleman, Julia (1931-) 1
Gregerson, Mary Pat, 1938- 1
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 1
Hannon, Beverly A., 1932- 1
Harper, Mattie 1
Harper, Patricia (1932-) 1
Hoffmann-Bright, Betty, 1921- 1
Iowa Business Council 1
Iowa Commission for Senior Citizens 1
Iowa ERA Coalition 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Women's Committee 1
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
Iowa's Women Legislators Oral Histories (Project) 1
Iowa. General Assembly 1
Iowa. General Assembly. Senate 1
Kuehl, Curt 1
Larsen, Sonja, 1941- 1
Levin, Myrtilla F., 1938- 1
Lipsky, Joan (1919-2015) 1
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 1
Lonergan, Joyce, 1934- 1
McElroy, Lillian M., 1917- 1
Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 1
Metz, Katheryn Clancy 1
Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 1
Mohr, Charlotte 1
Mullins, Sue B., 1936- 1
National Conference of Christians and Jews 1
National Federation of Republican Women 1
National Order of Women Legislators (U.S.) 1
Neuhauser, Mary C., 1934- 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Noun, Louise R. (1908-2002) 1
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 1
O'Halloran, Mary T., 1943- 1
Orr, Joann, 1923-2017 1
Pelzer, Ruth 1
Planned Parenthood Federation of America 1
President's Commission for the Observance of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations 1
Ray, Robert D. (1928-2018) 1
Reagan, Ronald 1
Republican National Committee (U.S.) 1
Republican National Committee (U.S.). Women's Division 1
Republican National Convention 1
Republican National Convention (31st : 1976 : Kansas City, Mo.) 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 1
Sargisson, Hallie, 1907- 1
Shivvers, Vera, 1897-1990 1
Smith, Elmer M. 1
Smith, Joan H., 1926- 1
Smith, Mary Louise (1914-1997) 1
State University of Iowa 1
Svoboda, Jane, 1944- 1
Svoboda, Linda 1
Szymoniak, Elaine (1920-2009) 1
Teaford, Jane (1935-) 1
Thompson, Patricia L., 1927- 1
Torrence Laughlin, Janis, 1926-2014 (1926-2014) 1
United Nations Association of the United States of America. Iowa Division 1
United Nations. Population Commission 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights 1
United States Institute of Peace 1
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives 1
Van Alstine, Percie, 1905- 1
Veterans Administration Hospital (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
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