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| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States, 1845-1849. |
| Date: | 01 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire (bald head toward the camera) makes a point with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (center) at a meeting of the Senate committee chai... |
| Date: | 01 18 1978 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire meeting with President Jimmy Carter in the White House. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly-elected members of the Wisconsin Assembly signing in. Facing the camera left to right are: E. William Proxmire (D-Madison), Hermann Eisner (D-Cross P... |
| Date: | 06 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Representative Glenn Davis, Waukesha, convention chairman for the Wisconsin Republican State Convention, and Harvey Higley, Marinette, State GOP Chairman. |
| Date: | 04 20 1971 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is credited with conceiving of Earth Day, listens while Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey addresses the Wisconsin L... |
| Date: | 11 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Assemblywoman Ruth Doyle with James Doyle, her husband, who was co-chairman of the state party's organizing committee which planned the campaign. |
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| Description: | Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts at a breakfast meeting with a group of labor leaders. |
| Date: | 06 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler signs into law the bill providing that the governor and the legislature shall review all public expenditures, including money from r... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of a break in the deliberations during the famous Roosevelt "Court Packing Case." Journalist Robert S. Allen, who was covering the story, can be s... |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Karl Mundt, (S.D., Rep.) who is wearing a suit and hat, and putting a cigar up to his mouth. Mundt came to Madison to address a session of the Univ... |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey standing at an outdoor podium at the Ice Age Trail Visitors Center. Trees fill the background. |
| Date: | 12 21 1993 |
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| Description: | Les Aspin (second from the right) served as Secretary of Defense during the administration of President Clinton. He is seen here at the Pentagon holiday pa... |
| Date: | 07 1972 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson posed talking in front of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in the National Statuary Hall in th... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | During his remarks, Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is standing at the podium, cracks a joke, apparently at the President's expense. Wisconsin dignitaries to t... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | President Jimmy Carter waves to the audience who had come to hear him speak. Standing next to the President is Congressman David R. Obey and his family. Se... |
| Date: | 03 31 1979 |
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| Description: | Onboard Air Force One with President Jimmy Carter are Wisconsin Congressman Henry Reuss (left), Joan Obey, and Congressman David R. Obey. |
| Date: | 11 13 1997 |
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| Description: | President Bill Clinton signing the FY 1998 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriation Bill. Behind the President are Vice President Al Gore and Wisconsin Cong... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | An emergency budget cutting session, under the watchful eye of the press. Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey is at the far right of the table. Opposite hi... |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Congressman George Mahon of Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, welcomes newly-appointed Congressman David R. Obey to the committee and ... |
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