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Title: Ed Zschau papers
Dates: 1982-1987
Collection Number: 86046
Creator: Zschau, Ed, 1940-
Collection Size:
193 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 computer tape reels
(81.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, bills, testimony, studies, campaign literature, printed matter, and video tapes,
relating to Congressional election campaigns, and various national political issues, particularly export administration of
high technology products.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], Ed Zschau papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1986.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Zschau has an A.B. degree from Princeton University and M.B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He was founder
and CEO of System Industries from 1968 through 1981. In 1982 Zschau was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and represented
the Silicon Valley area in Congress for two terms, ending in 1986. In 1987 he became a General Partner of Brentwood Associates,
a venture capital firm, and in 1988 was elected Chairman and CEO of Censtor Corp., a position held until he became General
Manager of the IBM Storage Systems Division from 1993 to 1995. He is currently the chairman of Princeton Power Systems,
Inc., StarTek, Inc., co-founder and chairman of Polyera Corporation, and director of WashingtonLive, Inc. and Chisholm, Inc.
He currently teaches in the electrical engineering department at Princeton University.
Source: American Action Forum,
http://americanactionforum.org/experts/ed-zschau
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, press releases, bills, testimony, studies, campaign literature, printed
matter, and video tapes, relating to Congressional election campaigns, and various national political issues, particularly
export administration of high technology products.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States. Congress. House.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
United States. Politics and government, 1981-1989.
Export controls--United States.
High technology industries--United States.
California--Politics and government--1951-
Statesmen--United States.