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Strengths - Congressional & Political

American Political History Collections

The Congressional and Political History Collections acquire, preserve, and make available for research archival materials for studies in congressional and state political history. The collections have a special focus on significant elected officials from Texas, including the Texas Congressional delegation, Texas governors, and House Speakers.

The Congressional History Collection contains papers relating to the careers of more than 50 former and present members of Congress, including House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Speaker and Vice President John Nance Garner. Measuring more than 6,400 linear feet, the collection is one of the most extensive and significant in the United States.

The Political History Collection includes the papers of former Texas governors, from Sam Houston and James Stephen Hogg to Dolph Briscoe and Ann Richards. Many other local and state officials, state and federal employees, and media are also included. An important collection component is the Texas House Speakers Oral History Project, which includes interviews and information on 11 Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives.

Congressional Members

Mike Andrews 1983–1995 Bill Archer 1971–2001 Steve Bartlett 1983–1991 Lindley Garrison Beckworth 1939–1953 Peter Hansbrough Bell 1853–1857 Kenneth E. Bentsen, 1994-2002 Lloyd Bentsen, Jr. 1948–1955 Clay Stone Briggs 1919–1933 Jack Brooks 1953–1995 Guy Morrison Bryan 1857–1859 John Bryant 1983–1997 James Paul Buchanan 1913–1937 Albert Sidney Burleson 1899–1913 Horace Chilton 1891–1892; 1895–1901 Richard Coke 1877–1895 Thomas Terry Connally 1917–1929 Charles Allen Culberson 1899–1923 Bob Eckhardt 1967–1981 James Winwright Flanagan 1870–1875 Bob Gammage 1977–1979 John Nance Garner 1903–1933 Pete Geren 1989–1997 Dewitt Clinton Giddings 1872–1875; 1877–1879 Henry B. Gonzalez 1961–1998; see also web feature-biography and video. Andrew Jackson Hamilton 1859–1862 John Hemphill 1859–1861 James Pickney Henderson 1857–1858 Sam Houston 1846–1845; 1855–1859	Frank Neville Ikard 1951–1961 Lyndon B. Johnson, 1942-1968 David Spangler Kaufman 1846–1851 Paul Kilday 1939–1961 Joe M. Kilgore 1955–1965 Rudolph Kleberg 1896–1903 Robert Krueger 1975–1979 Fritz G. Lanham 1919–1947 Samuel W. T. Lanham 1883–1893 John Benjamin Long 1891–1893 Maury Maverick, Sr. 1935–1939 Samuel Bell Maxey 1875–1887 William D. McFarlane 1933–1939 Atkins Jefferson McLemore 1915–1919 Roger Q. Mills 1873–1892 J.J. "Jake" Pickle 1963–1995 Sam Rayburn 1913–1961 John H. Reagan 1875–1887 Thomas Jefferson Rusk 1846–1857 Joseph Draper Sayers 1885–1899 Morris Sheppard 1902–1913 George Washington Smyth 1853–1855 Hatton W. Sumners, 1935-1938 James Webb Throckmorton 1875–1879 James "Jim" Turner 1997–2005 Louis T. Wigfall 1839-1874 James Clifton Wilson 1917–1919 Harry M. Wurzbach 1921–1929; 1930–1931 Ralph W. Yarborough 1957–1971
*collection is temporarily closed or restricted

Texas Governors

Dolph Briscoe 1973–1979; see also web feature - biography and gallery.
Oscar B. Colquitt 1910–1915
James Ferguson 1915–1917
William P. Hobby 1917–1921
James Stephen Hogg 1891–1895

Sam Houston 1860–1861
S.W.T. Lanham 1903–1907
Ann Richards 1991–1995
Allan Shivers 1949–1957
Ross Sterling 1931–1933