Title: Emanuel F. Brunette Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1929-1937

Creator:

• Brunette, Emanuel F., 1880-1960

Call Number: Mss 17

Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Papers of a Wisconsin state assemblyman and senator, including correspondence, 1929-1937; materials relating to an investigation of charges of communistic teaching at the University of Wisconsin, 1935; correspondence while a member of the State Emergency Board, 1936; and speeches. The materials reflect Brunette's concerns about school financing, hunting and fishing regulations, and other topics. Several letters from UW President Glenn Frank are present.

Language: English

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Emanuel Brunette was born in the town of Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin, on January 16, 1880. After completing high school, he entered the State Normal School at Oshkosh, but left in 1900 before completing the requirements for a degree. He then worked for his father in Howard until 1905, when he opened a grocery store. Brunette operated the store for two years and then obtained a position as manager of a stone quarry at Duck Creek.

Brunette served two years as a county supervisor. He was elected to and served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1928 to 1929, and in the State Senate from 1933 to 1936. While in the Senate, he was a member of the University Investigating Committee (1935) which investigated charges of the presence of communists and the teaching of communism in the university system. In 1936 he served as a member of the State Emergency Board, whose main function was to take care of unexpected contingencies in state finance.

The Brunette Papers are composed of three groups of correspondence. The first consists of general correspondence carried on with constituents from 1929 to 1937, and especially in the years, 1929 and 1933. This is arranged chronologically by month. Most of the 1929 correspondence is concerned with legislation relative to a children's code and various tax proposals. The 1933 correspondence is concerned with fishing and hunting regulations, state financial matters, and relief measures.

A second series of correspondence and related material is that acquired while Brunette was a member of the University Investigating Committee in 1935. It is illustrative of the concern and philosophy voiced by some of the state's citizens on the matter of communism and morals in the university system. This includes letters from Pres. Glenn Frank.

A third group of correspondence and reports was accumulated in the course of Brunette's activities as a member of the State Emergency Board. The major portion of this material is concerned with school financing deficiencies.

The collection also contains, in Box 6, miscellaneous personal and political materials including speeches and writings, research and reference materials, and drafts of proposed legislation.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. Alice Brunette, Green Bay, Wisconsin, May 28, 1960.

Processing Information

Processed by Dale Johnson, July 8, 1968 and Margaret Hafstad, March 24, 1969.

	General correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	1929, Jan. - Dec.; 1932, March 20
Box   1 Folder   2	1933, Jan.
Box   1 Folder   3	1933, Feb.
Box   1 Folder   4	1933, March
Box   1 Folder   5	1933, March
Box   1 Folder   6	1933, March
Box   1 Folder   7	1933, March
Box   1 Folder   8	1933, April
Box   2 Folder   1	1933, April
Box   2 Folder   2	1933, April
Box   2 Folder   3	1933, May
Box   2 Folder   4	1933, May
Box   2 Folder   5	1933, May
Box   2 Folder   6	1933, June
Box   2 Folder   7	1933, June
Box   3 Folder   1	1933, July
Box   3 Folder   2	1933, July
Box   3 Folder   3	1933, Dec.
Box   3 Folder   4	1934 - 1937, March 3
	University Investigating Committee, 1935
Box   4 Folder   1	Brunette's Item 1
Box   4 Folder   2	Brunette's Items 1A to 13
Box   4 Folder   3	Brunette's Items 23 and 26
Box   4 Folder   4	Brunette's misc. items
	Emergency Board Correspondence
Box   5 Folder   1	1936, Jan. - Feb.
Box   5 Folder   2	1936, March - April
Box   5 Folder   3	1936, May - Aug.
Box   5 Folder   4	1936, Sept.
Box   5 Folder   5	1936, Oct. - Nov.
Box   5 Folder   6	1936, Dec. - 1937, Jan.
Box   5 Folder   7	Emergency Board, miscellaneous, 1936
Box   6 Folder   1	Bill introduced by Brunette, 1933, Feb. 17
Box   6 Folder   2	Democratic Party Platform, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   3	Minutes of Interim Investigating Committee on Silicosis and Labor Conditions in the Stone Cutting Industry, 1933, Oct. 24
Box   6 Folder   4	Report of preliminary survey for Brown county airport, 1930, April 29
Box   6 Folder   5-6	Research and reference materials, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   7	Speeches and writings, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   8	Speeches and writings (fragments), n.d.
Box   6 Folder   9	Fragments and miscellaneous items, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   10	Personal