Abstract
Personal papers and clippings from years in office as a member of the House of Representatives. Papers include files relating to campaigns and elections, constituent requests, general files, files relating to bills, invitations, files relating to military and social security cases, military academies, veterans, gun control, the Vietnam War and the draft, aging and senior citizens, and files relating to local issues such as post offices, local airports, floods, interns, federally-funded projects, and Cornell University.
Dates
- [ca. 1956-1974]
Creator
- Robison, Howard W. (Howard Winfield), 1915-1987. (Person)
- Calkins, John T. (Interviewer, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Restrictions on use:
Case files are available to legitimate scholars with the understanding that the identity of individuals in these files is not to be published or otherwise released in such form that any individual mentioned in the records can be identified. Reference can be made to individual cases, but only on an anonymous basis.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Congressman.
Howard W. Robison practiced law in Owego, N.Y., served as county attorney of Tioga County, N.Y. from 1946 until 1956 when he was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. Sterling Cole; he was reelected and served in the House of Representatives until his retirement in 1974.
Extent
239.4 cubic feet. (239.4 cubic feet.)
23 audiocassettes. (23 audiocassettes.)
Physical Description
Correspondence, invitations, and personal papers.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, July 2007
- Airports -- New York (State)
- Draft -- United States.
- Elections -- New York (State)
- Firearms -- United States -- Law and legislation.
- Floods -- New York (State)
- Military pensions.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- Older people -- United States -- Services for.
- Politicians -- United States.
- Politics, Practical.
- Postal service -- United States -- Postmasters.
- Republican Party (N.Y.)
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
- Robison, Howard W. (Howard Winfield), 1915-1987.
- Social security -- United States.
- United States -- Politics and government.
- United States Air Force Academy
- United States Military Academy
- United States Naval Academy
- United States. Congress. House
- Veterans -- Medical care.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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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