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Utah -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

History of House Bill 70

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318260]
Identifier: MSS SC 1969
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten legislative papers. Most of the documents deal with the Utah judicial system.

Dates: 1981

History of the reorganization of Utah's state administrative government by the Twenty-fourth Legislature

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308832]
Identifier: MSS SC 1095
Scope and Contents

Typed thesis submitted as a partial requirement for a Master of Science degree in Political Science. The item deals with a reorganization of the administrative organization of Utah's government in 1941.

Dates: 1950

Moroni L. and Vivian N. Jensen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 3723
Abstract

The Moroni L. and Vivian Jensen collection consists of both personal and professional papers. The papers include legislative papers, education papers, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, articles, reports, magazines, pamphlets, and campaign materials, circa 1950-1980, bulk 1976-1980. This collection also contains a folder with two large portraits of Utah Senator Moroni L. Jensen, circa 1980.

Dates: approximately 1950-1991

Scott G. Kenney research materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2022
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of correspondence, minutes, journals, and subject research files of Scott Kinney. These materials relate to Joseph F. Smith (1832-1918) sixth President of the LDS Church. The bulk of the collection deals with the years 1870 to 1918. These research files are documentation for Kinney's proposed biography of Smith.

Dates: 1820-1984

Henry W. Lawrence correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334192]
Identifier: MSS 1125
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and signed letters. Lawrence writes to Charles Crane expressing opposition to financial policies of the federal government and proposes alternatives. A letter is received from A. E. Graham and P. O. Hagan presenting questions to Lawrence on political issues. Another letter is Lawrence's answers to these questions.

Dates: 1894-1895

Letter to Caleb Cushing

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234103]
Identifier: MSS SC 77
Scope and Contents

ALS written to Cushing, United States Attorney General, concerning the recommendation of Col. Edward R. Harden of Georgia as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah Territory.

Dates: 1854

James S. Martin correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489564]
Identifier: MSS 567
Scope and Contents Handwritten and typewritten correspondence. Three of the items were received by Martin and one was sent by him. One of the letters is from James H. Wolfe, an attorney in Salt Lake City, Utah, and another is from C. G. Patterson, a resident of Salt Lake City. Both Wolfe and Patterson are concerned with the Mormon Church's domination of politics in Utah. They are concerned that the United States Senator and Mormon Church Apostle, Reed Smoot, is controlled by the Mormon Church. Also...
Dates: 1915

Moroni L. Jensen political papers, 1950-1980

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3723 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains both personal and professional papers of Moroni L. Jensen. Papers include legislative papers, education papers, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, articles, reports, magazines, pamphlets, and campaign materials. Materials date from between 1950 and 1980, with the bulk from 1976 to 1980.

Dates: 1950-1980

Frank E. Moss political reports

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232573177]
Identifier: MSS 8536

Edward Partridge, Jr. diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1004
Scope and Contents Photocopies of handwritten diaries. Partridge writes about his mission to Hawaii from 1854 to 1858 and from 1882 to 1885 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the latter when he served as mission president. He writes about incidents during the Utah War (1857-1858), and settling in Farmington and in Fillmore, Utah, where he served as bishop. Patridge also writes about his work as a probate judge in Millard County, as a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature in the 1870s,...
Dates: 1854-1899