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Lilly Library manuscript collections include the papers of Indiana governors, state legislators, members of Congress, diplomats, and others active in politics. Early Indiana political collections include the papers of Samuel Judah, state legislator in the 1820's and 1830's and Henry Smith Lane, governor, congressman, and U.S. Senator. Collections concerning more recent United States politics include the papers of Charles Fairbanks, U.S. senator and vice-president of the United States under Theodore Roosevelt, Paul V. McNutt, governor of Indiana, 1933-1937, Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee for President in 1940, Charles Halleck, congressman from Indiana, 1935-1968, and Birch Bayh, United States senator, 1962-1980.
Brief descriptions of several of the most significant collections are given here. The sidebar includes links to lists of other collections and to the searchable database of manuscript collection descriptions.
The Bayh mss., ca. 1962-1980, consists of papers generated and received by the office of Senator Birch Evans Bayh during his three terms in the United States Senate representing the state of Indiana.
The Hamilton mss., ca. 1965-1998, consists of the papers of Representative Lee Hamilton relating to his 34 years of service in Congress as Representative of the Ninth Congressional District of Indiana.
