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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

Betty Jean Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0153
Abstract

Iowa legislator from 1976 to 1990.

Dates: 1935-1994

Betty M. Burger papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0792
Abstract

Congressional caseworker from 1967 until 2007.

Dates: 1973-2009

Beverly A. Hannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0065
Abstract

Two-term Iowa state senator. Hannon chaired the Human Resources Committee and was instrumental in founding the Iowa Women's Foundation in Iowa City.

Dates: 1968-2015

Carolyn Pendray papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA1150
Abstract

First woman elected to the Iowa General Assembly, representing Jackson County in both the Iowa House of Representatives and the Iowa Senate.

Dates: 1932

Charlene Conklin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0004
Abstract

Member of the Iowa House of Representatives,1967 to 1969, and the Iowa Senate, 1969 to 1973.

Dates: 1954-1981

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

Elizabeth R. Miller papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0112
Abstract

Farm woman and Republican state legislator from Marshalltown, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1972-1984

Elizabeth Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0026
Abstract

Iowa state legislator from 1967 to 1977.



Arrangement

Topical files, arranged alphabetically, boxes 1-22; correspondence, boxes 23-30.

Dates: 1958-1977

Gertrude Cohen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0358
Abstract

Member of the Iowa House of Representatives, 1965-1966, and the first Jewish woman elected to the Iowa Legislature.

Dates: 1964-1991

Gladys Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0662
Abstract

Republican Iowa legislator from 1950 to 1956 and former president of the League of Women Voters of Iowa.

Dates: 1938-1995

Janis Torrence Laughlin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0125
Abstract

Muscatine County Supervisor from 1976 to 1982 and Representative in the Iowa Legislature from 1983 to 1985.

Dates: 1976-1990

Jean Lloyd-Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0066
Abstract

State legislator from Iowa City and president of the Iowa Peace Institute.

Dates: 1964-2021

Jo Ann Zimmerman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0351
Abstract

Elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1982 and in 1986, she became the first woman Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.

Dates: 1958-1995

Joan Lipsky papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0071
Abstract

Iowa legislator and community activist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Dates: 1880-2015

Joann Orr papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0807
Abstract

State senator from 1972 to 1980 from Grinnell, Iowa.

Dates: 1969-2017

Johnie Hammond papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0563
Abstract

Democratic representative and senator in the Iowa legislature.

Dates: 1970-2006

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

Joyce Nielsen papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0665
Abstract

Feminist, legislator and community activist who worked in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Dates: 1951-1996

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Legislators 31
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Personal papers 30
Women lawyers 29
Iowa 23
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Photographs 20
Political campaigns 19
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Speeches 14
1981-1990 12
Political candidates 11
1971-1980 10
1991-2000 10
Scrapbooks 10
Women in public life 10
2001-2010 9
Correspondence 9
Cultural artifacts 9
Legislation 8
Sound recordings 7
Oral histories 6
Des Moines (Iowa) 5
Memoirs 5
Politicians 5
Video recordings 5
Abortion 4
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Equal rights amendments 4
Iowa City (Iowa) 4
Rural women 4
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Women in agriculture 4
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 3
Community activists 3
Education 3
Jewish women -- Iowa 3
Women 3
Women's rights 3
1961-1970 2
Albuquerque (N.M.) 2
Autobiographies 2
Black Hawk County (Iowa) 2
City council members 2
College students 2
Ethics 2
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Legislators -- Iowa 2
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Women in nonprofit organizations 2
2011-2020 1
African American women -- Iowa 1
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Alta (Iowa) 1
Ames (Iowa) 1
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Bedford (Iowa) 1
Bills, Legislative 1
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Cambridge (Mass.) 1
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Child care 1
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Civic improvement 1
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Community life 1
Congressional records 1
County officials and employees 1
Deafness 1
Defection 1
Dickinson County (Iowa) 1
Diplomacy 1
Dubuque County (Iowa) 1
Emmet County (Iowa) 1
Employee fringe benefits 1
Employee rights 1
Family planning 1
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Farmers 1
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Grinnell (Iowa) 1
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Names
Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives 16
Iowa. General Assembly. Senate 11
Democratic Party (Iowa) 9
Republican Party (Iowa) 9
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 4
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Iowa. General Assembly 3
Chapman, Kathleen "Kay" Halloran (1937-) 2
Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 2
Cohen, Gertrude (1913-2016) 2
Conklin, Charlene, 1929-2022 2
Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 2
Gruhn, Josephine, 1927-2015 2
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 2
Hannon, Beverly A., 1932- 2
Harper, Patricia (1932-) 2
Larsen, Sonja, 1941- 2
Lipsky, Joan (1919-2015) 2
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 2
Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 2
Neuhauser, Mary C., 1934- 2
Orr, Joann, 1923-2017 2
Shivvers, Vera, 1897-1990 2
Torrence Laughlin, Janis, 1926-2014 (1926-2014) 2
University of Iowa 2
Zastrow, Katherine Mull Falvey, 1904-1997 2
Adams, Janet (1937-) 1
Anderson, Helen 1
Baxter, Elaine (1933-2021) 1
Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
Berg, Orville 1
Bloom, Amy 1
Bock, Lena Belle, 1904-2007 1
Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
Brain family 1
Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
Branstad, Terry E. 1
Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
Burger, Betty M., 1920-2007 1
Carl, Janet (1948-) 1
Carpenter, Dorothy, 1933-2011 1
Conflict and Civility in Political Discourse Symposium (2011 : University of Iowa) 1
Corning, Joy, 1932- 1
Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922- 1
Duncan, Bob 1
Falvey, Lawrence A., 1901-1957 1
Garman, Teresa, 1937- 1
Gentleman, Julia (1931-) 1
Gregerson, Mary Pat, 1938- 1
Hamilton, Carter 1
Hamilton, Ruth, 1898-2008 1
Hanrahan, Robert 1
Harper, Mattie 1
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program 1
Hoffmann-Bright, Betty, 1921- 1
Iowa Development Commission 1
Iowa Health Systems Agency 1
Iowa Library Commission 1
Iowa Peace Institute 1
Iowa Public Employees Retirement System 1
Iowa Women's Foundation 1
Iowa's Women Legislators Oral Histories (Project) 1
Jensen, Dorothy 1
Jochum, Pam (1954-) 1
John F. Kennedy School of Government 1
Kuehl, Curt 1
Kurdika, Simas 1
League of Women Voters of Iowa 1
Lonergan, Joyce, 1934- 1
Martin, Mona Kadel (1934-) 1
McElroy, Lillian M., 1917- 1
Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 1
Metz, Katheryn Clancy 1
Miller, Opal (1915-2010) 1
Mullins, Sue B., 1936- 1
National Conference of State Legislatures 1
National Order of Women Legislators (U.S.) 1
Nelson, Gladys, 1895-1995 1
Nielsen Financial Consultants (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1
Nielsen family 1
Nielsen, Cindy 1
Nielsen, Eric 1
Nielsen, Joyce, 1933- 1
O'Halloran, Mary T., 1943- 1
Pelzer, Ruth 1
Pendray, Carolyn (1881-1958) 1
Ruksenas, Algis, 1945- 1
Sargisson, Hallie, 1907- 1
Shaw, Elizabeth (1923-2014) 1
Sheldon Jackson College (Sitka, Alaska) 1
Shivvers, John, -1962 1
Smith, Joan H., 1926- 1
Story County (Iowa). Board of Supervisors 1
Svoboda, Jane, 1944- 1
Svoboda, Linda 1
Szymoniak, Elaine (1920-2009) 1
Teaford, Jane (1935-) 1
Terrace Hill Society 1
Thompson, Patricia L., 1927- 1
University of Iowa. College of Law 1
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