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Summary Information
Vernon W. Thomson Papers
1941-1974
- Thomson, Vernon Wallace, 1905-1988
Mss 304; Series 15; Series 16; Audio 134A; Audio 135A; Audio 136A; AC 374-AC 377; CB 005-CB 006; DC 800-DC 801
40.2 cubic feet (37 records center cartons and 9 archives boxes), 6 tape recordings, and 8 films
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Vernon Thomson, a former Republican state legislator (1935-1950), attorney general (1951-1956), governor (1957-1958), and member of Congress (1961-1974), primarily documenting his career as governor of Wisconsin and United States representative. Included are correspondence, memoranda, notes, background material, speeches, tapes, films, and files on press and publicity, legislation, and constituent cases. The papers are arranged into two public record series of gubernatorial papers and one manuscript collection that includes Thomson's congressional papers and his speeches. For the period of Thomson's tenure as governor, there are significant files on the economic development of the state, highway safety, conservation and the environment, the state budget and the prospect of a sales tax, and the St. Lawrence Seaway and Wisconsin's participation in the Great Lakes Compact Commission. There is also some material on Thomson's support of Robert Taft in 1952. Documenting his career as a member of Congress is constituent correspondence, case and project files, and material on legislation which Thomson sponsored or introduced such as bills concerning tariffs on shoes, dairy and agricultural products, and lead and zinc, and benefits for Mexican border veterans. One file contains correspondence concerning Thomson's anti-gambling legislation introduced in 1945.
English
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