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Father Drinan

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Description: Father Robert Drinan, the first Catholic priest elected to the U.S. Congress and a strong opponent of the war in Vietnam, at a panel sponsored by the Insti...
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Madison Exchange Club Meeeting

Date: 11 31 1951
Description: Seated at the banquet table are D. Russell Bontager, Indiana legislator, at left, and Henry Marshall, Galesburg, Illinois, at right, who were guests of the...
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Court Packing

Date: 1937
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...
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Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1887
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate of 1887-1888.
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Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1913
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate of 1913.
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Draft Protest Meeting

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Adolph Maasen (left), the leader of a group of state farmers claiming prejudice against farmers by the State Selective Service, observing Colonel Bentley C...
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Draft Protest Meeting

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Elevated view of some of the nearly 70 farmers and their wives from nine Wisconsin counties gathered in the state assembly chamber to hear a discussion of ...
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Portrait of Senator Bernhard Gettelman, Milwaukee, left, and Frederick H. Holtz, Milwaukee, both Warren delegates on the convention floor at the Chicago Re...
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: William H. Young (left), University of Wisconsin professor and research consultant for Governor Walter Kohler, chats with State Senator Jess Miller of Rich...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr., as University Student - Anaglyph

Date: 1879
Description: Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin.
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The Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1862
Description: Composite photograph of the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Frederick W. Horn

Date: 1860
Description: Waist-up oval portrait of Frederick W. Horn (1815-1893). A Democrat, he was a Representative in the Wisconsin Assembly from Cedarburg. He was a lawyer and ...
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La Follette Papers Opened

Date: 06 26 1954
Description: Four relatives of Senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette look over the collection of his personal papers which were presented and opened at the Wisco...
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Senator Karl Mundt at Airport

Date: 09 02 1954
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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Secretary Aspin

Date: 12 21 1993
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...
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In La Follette's Shadow

Date: 07 1972
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...
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"Just a Little Joke, Mr. President"

Date: 1979
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...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
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...
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Onboard Air Force One

Date: 03 31 1979
Description: Onboard Air Force One with President Jimmy Carter are Wisconsin Congressman Henry Reuss (left), Joan Obey, and Congressman David R. Obey.
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Economic Promotion

Date: 05 1973
Description: As part of a national economic development program for northern Wisconsin, former baseball star Ted Williams, then a representative of a fishing tackle com...

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