Summary Information

Title: Thomas E. Petri Wisconsin State Senate Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1973-1979

Creator:

• Petri, Thomas E., 1940-

Call Number: Oshkosh Mss BY

Quantity: 12.0 cubic feet (11 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes and 1 half archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Polk Library, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Oshkosh Polk Library / Oshkosh Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Wisconsin Senate legislative papers of a Republican State Senator (1973-1978) from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, including constituent correspondence and bill and committee files. There are extensive letters concerning abortion, alcohol and raising the drinking age, education and collective bargaining for teachers, the Equal Rights Amendment, the state budget and taxation and other important issues of the period. Prominent correspondents include Lee S. Dreyfus, Tony Earl, Harold V. Froehlich, Jack Kemp, Patrick J. Lucey, and William Steiger. The committee files deal with work on the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the Joint Audit Committee, the Republican Task Force on Welfare Reform, and the Senate Human Services Committee.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-osh00by

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