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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: Biography of James Alexander Reed (1861-1944), Attorney and Politician
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Wheat to Congress
Description: Photo and biographical article about Alan Wheat, "the first Black ever to represent a mostly White district (Missouri's 5th District) in the House of Representatives." Born in San Antonio in 1951 and graduating from Howard University before succeeding Richard Bolling as national representative in Kansas City.
Date: 1982-12
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: Sure Thing: Representative Alan Wheat
Description: Photos and biographical article about Alan Wheat, 35-year-old black national representative of "Missouri's Fifth District" since 1982 (succeeding Richard Bolling), comprising "most of Kansas City."
Date: 1986-07
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: Richard W. Bolling
Description: Short biography of U.S. Congressman from Missouri Richard W. Bolling (1916-1991). Includes citations.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book Section

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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