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Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987

 Person

Found in 6 Records:

Alfred M. Landon collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 3
Overview

This collection of speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, audiovisual material, and miscellaneous memorabilia was collected by historian Donald R. McCoy as a result of his research for the biography Landon of Kansas.

Dates: 1927-1963, 1966, 1980, 1983

Alfred M. Landon oral interviews

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Call Number: RH MS 819
Overview

Alfred Mossman Landon, 1887-1987, a prominent Kansas Republican, served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937 and ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States presidency in 1936. This collection includes audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with Governor Landon by Donald R. McCoy and Louis George Griffin from 1975-1976.

Dates: 1975 - 1976

Letter to Senator George Moses

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Call Number: RH MS P771
Overview

In this 3-page letter to U.S. Senator George Moses of New Hampshire, Emporia Gazette editor William Allen White addresses the circumstances surrounding his work as Kansas delegate and member of the Committee on Resolutions during the June 1936 Republican National Convention at which Kansas Governor Alf Landon was nominated for President.

Dates: July 8, 1936

Transcripts and broadcast sound recordings of speeches and interviews by and about Alfred M. Landon

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 205
Overview

These broadcast sound recordings were collected by the news staff of Wren Radio. Each recording was either produced or acquired by Wren because the subject of the recording is Alfred M. Landon, president of Wren Broadcasting Company and 1936 Republican presidential candidate.

Dates: 1936 - 1976

Warren Zimmerman letters from Wint Smith and Alf M. Landon

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Call Number: RH MS P816
Overview These letters to Warren Zimmerman of Lawrence, Kansas in spring 1960 include two from Wint Smith, U.S. Representative from the Kansas Sixth District, and one from former Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon. The writers address pressing issues of the time: communism, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the nuclear arms race. Landon describes his recent speaking appearance at a large New York City peace rally sponsored by the National and Greater New York Committees for a Sane Nuclear Policy, held May...
Dates: 1960

William Lindsay White collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 608
Overview

The William Lindsay White Collection contains career correspondence and manuscripts of author and journalist William Lindsay White and his father, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and author William Allen White. Included also are papers of William Lindsay White's mother Sallie Lindsay White and of his grandparents, Dr. Allen White and Mary Ann Hatten White.

Dates: 1815 - 1983