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Witwer, Samuel W.: Memoir

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Identifier: O-W788

Scope and Contents

ADLAI E. STEVENSON PROJECT Witwer, lawyer, recalls his association with Adlai E. Stevenson II: the gubernatorial campaign in 1948 and Stevenson's interest in a revision of the Illinois Constitution. Witwer also discusses his own work as chairman of the Bar Association Standing Committee for Constitutional Revision and as chairman for Citizen's Committee for a Constitutional Convention. He also discusses the Gateway Amendment and party politics in relation to the revision of the state Constitution.

52 pp. Interview by John Luter, 1969 Donated by the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York RESTRICTED: May be read but not quoted, cited or reproduced.

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RESTRICTED: May be read but not quoted, cited or reproduced.

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1.00 items

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English

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