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Title: Richard Bolling
Description: Information about United States Representative for Missouri from Kansas City, Richard Bolling, including an article about Bolling's autobiographical book with photos, "House Out of Order," describing his experiences in government.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Duels
Description: Information about the duels in early Missouri history, mostly between 1817 and 1840. Of note are those that led to the deaths of local statesmen Charles Lucas (involved in the founding of Columbia, Missouri, and killed by Senator Thomas Hart Benton) and Major Taylor Berry (involved in the founding of Boonville, Missouri).
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
Description: Photo and biographical sketch of Francis Preston Blair, Jr., or Frank Blair (1821-1875), a Union officer and presidential cabinet member during the Civil War from Missouri, originally from Kentucky, describing his political career. Frank Blair was one of the two men from Missouri honored with statues in Washington, D. C., the other being Thomas Hart Benton the statesman (p. 197).
Date: 1923
Object Type: Book

Title: Harry S Truman with Senator Harry Darby
Description: Former President Harry S. Truman sits with Kansas Senator Harry Darby and a number of unidentified men.
Date: 1964-08-26
Object Type: Negative

Title: Harry Darby, Harry H. Woodring, and Frank Carlson
Description: Senator Harry Darby (left), Hon. Harry H. Woodring (center), and Kansas Senator Frank Carlson (right) at unknown venue. No print image; negative and digital only.
Date: 1972-08
Object Type: Negative

Title: Harry S. Truman and Harry Darby
Description: Senator Harry Darby (left), person in the center is unknown, and President Harry S. Truman (right) in unknown venue.
Date: 1972-08
Object Type: Negative

Title: Richard Bolling
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Richard Bolling. Bolling was the Congressional Representative from the 5th District from 1948 through 1972. The Richard Bolling Federal Building on 12th Street was named after him.
Date: 1967-09-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC35-4 Autograph Book Finding Aid
Description: This 89-page book of autographs does not contain the owner or compiler's name. The 244 signatures appear to have been gathered during 1867-1868. With each name is a state, and because the name of Schulyer Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives, appears, it is presumed the names included are United States congressional figures of the time.
Date: 1867/1868
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: From City Hall to Congress, Cleaver Delivers for KC
Description: Article in series "Catalysts," marking 25th anniversary of Kansas City Business Journal, discusses contributions of the Rev. Emanuel Clever during his tenure as mayor and his current congressional term.
Date: 2007-09-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Biography of Harold Holliday Sr. (1918-1985), Lawyer, Legislator, and Civil Rights Activist
Date: 2009
Object Type: Biography

Title: Richard Bolling
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Richard Bolling. Bolling was the Congressional Representative from the 5th District from 1948 through 1972. The Richard Bolling Federal Building on 12th Street was named after him.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: First Vehicle Crosses Bond Bridge
Description: On September 27, 2010, Brad Regehr and his wife Wanda were the first to cross the new Christopher S. Bond Bridge (Bond Bridge) that replaces the Paseo Bridge. "More than 700 community leaders, politicians, engineers and contractors packed onto the bridge Monday to dedicate the span to Bond, the Republican U.S. senator who secured $50 million for the project and is leaving office after this term." The Paseo Bridge, which opened in August 1954, "will be taken down in pieces before October 2011." The Bond Bridge will be fully open by the end of 2010, six months ahead of schedule. A sidebar, "Bond Bridge: By the Numbers," gives these statistics: 40 lighted cables; $245 million for the bridge and wider interstate; the diamond-shaped supporting tower, 316 feet high; the longest cable, 540 feet; length, 1700 feet; 100,000 vehicles expected to travel the bridge daily.
Date: 2010-09-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Thomas Hart Benton (Senator)
Description: Short biography of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858).
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Richard Bolling
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Richard Bolling. Bolling was the Congressional Representative from the 5th District from 1948 through 1972. The Richard Bolling Federal Building on 12th Street was named after him.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Senator Lewis F. Linn and the Oregon Question
Description: Article about Senator Lewis Linn (1795-1843), one of the most active promoters of "the American expansionist compulsion" (along with Representative John Floyd of Virginia in the 1820s) from 1837 until his death in 1843. Linn was a native of Kentucky who lived and died in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. Included are portraits of Linn, Senator Thomas Hart Benton, Henry Dodge, George McDuffie, Caleb Cushing, and Jesse Applegate. Linn was influenced by Thomas Hart Benton in his "Oregon fever" to settle the far West, and he became known as "the father of Oregon." His guardian as a child was Henry Dodge. Linn worked on the interests of early Missouri but had a special interest in Oregon and he established a bill in 1838 "to establish the Oregon Territory west of the Rocky Mountains and north of latitute 42 [degrees]" to ensure its protection as U.S. territory versus British territory--in opposition to Senator George McDuffie.
Date: 1971-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Local Heroes: Senator Dick Bond
Description: Photo and biographical sketch of Kansas Senator Dick Bond, the first city attorney of Overland Park in 1960, becoming a state senator for Kansas in 1986.
Date: 1995-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Journal of Mamie Bernard Aguirre
Description: Photo and description of "Senator Steven B. Elkins," at the age of 21 in Westport during the Civil War as a passenger on an ambulance wagon, accompanying Mamie Aguirre on her honeymoon.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC35-5 E. J. Davison Autograph Book Finding Aid
Description: This 73-page autograph book was compiled, according to dates found with some signatures, in 1878-79 by E. J. Davison in Washington, D.C. The focus of the signatures center around United States government offices and departments and includes the autograph of then President Rutherford B. Hayes and Vice President William A. Wheeler as well as the majority of Senators at that time.
Date: 1878/1879
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Thomas Hart Benton, Senator
Description: Portrait, biographical sketch, and lengthy descriptions of important political influences on the early history of Missouri of Senator Thomas Hart Benton.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book Section

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