COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, speeches, card files, news releases, legislative bills, tape recordings, clippings, scrapbooks, and questionnaires relating to Pillion's work as an assemblyman and congressman.
Included are correspondence with constituents; alphabetical card indexes of actions taken on each constituent’s request; and correspondence, hearings, justifications, and working papers concerning appropriations for government departments, commissions, and agencies. Also, legislative and general correspondence and information files concerning state or local projects; the Antarctic Treaty and Pillion's trip to Antarctica in 1959; his opposition to statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; national issues; and foreign policy and international affairs. There are also copies of bills he introduced into Congress, speeches, news releases, tape recordings, questionnaires, clipping scrapbooks, and loose clippings.
Dates
- 1947-1965.
Creator
- Pillion, John Raymond, 1904- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Lawyer; legislator.
John R. Pillion served as a New York State Assemblyman from 1941 to 1950 and United States Congressman from 1953 to 1964.
Extent
53.3 cubic feet. (53.3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, speeches, card files, news releases, legislative bills, tape recordings, clippings, scrapbooks, and questionnaires relating to Pillion's work as an assemblyman and congressman.
Physical Description
Correspondence, legal documents, news clippings, scrapbooks, audio recordings, and printed material.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- February 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2016
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, February 2016
- Alaska -- Politics and government.
- Antarctica -- Description and travel.
- Hawaii -- Politics and government.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
- Politicians.
- Politics, Practical.
- Scrapbooks.
- United States -- Appropriations and expenditures.
- United States -- Foreign relations.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.
- United States. Congress. House
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu