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Committee to Re-Elect Governor Brown Records
BANC MSS 67/34 c
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Committee to Re-Elect Governor Brown records
Creator:
Committee to Re-Elect Governor Brown
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 67/34 c
Physical Description:
7 linear feet
(4 boxes and 5 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1961-1962
Abstract: Correspondence, including letters of committee members Elizabeth Gatov, Elizabeth Heller, Gerald D. Marcus, Thomas N. Saunders
and James F. Thacher; material relating to the speakers bureau, registration committees, special committees, etc.; Brown's
calendar and itineraries; publicity material, including press releases and campaign literature; clippings.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
Edmund Gerald Brown, Sr. was elected as California's thirty-second Governor in November 1958, and he assumed office in January
1959. Beginning early in 1961, the Committee to Re-Elect Governor Brown was organized in Northern California to begin publicizing
the Governor's record while in office and to make plans for his reelection campaign. Headquartered in San Francisco under
campaign manager Thomas N. Saunders, the Committee coordinated all aspects of the campaign and the activities of all Northern
California district and county committees, the numerous volunteer and occupation-related sub-committees, and the speakers
bureau. In November 1962, Governor Brown was elected to a second term in office after defeating the Republican candidate Richard
M. Nixon.
The papers of the Committee to Re-Elect Governor Brown were transferred to The Bancroft Library in August 1966 from the Institute
of Governmental Studies. The collection consists of 4 boxes and 5 cartons and covers the Committee's activities from 1961-1962.
Included are copies of outgoing letters written by committee members including campaign manager Thomas N. Saunders, registration
chairman Elizabeth (Rudel) Smith Gatov, speakers bureau coordinator Elizabeth Heller, co-chairman Gerald D. Marcus and treasurer
James Foster Thacher; incoming letters addressed to committee members and Governor Brown; subject files; publicity files;
and clippings.
All of the portraits have been removed and cataloged separately in the portrait collection.
The papers as a whole are described in greater detail in the Key to Arrangement which follows.
[Identification of item], Committee to Re-Elect Governor Brown records, BANC MSS 67/34 c, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
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