ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Partee, Democratic member of Illinois House of Representatives 1957-67 and Illinois Senate 1967-77, discusses his years in the General Assembly: work with issues such as civil rights, consumer rights, and crime and correction legislation; legislative, judicial, and fiscal reform; public aid, health, welfare, and safety legislation; and work as senate president. Also discusses his years before the General Assembly: family, employment, higher education, law school and practice, and early politics. Also recalls his work after the General Assembly as a commissioner in the Chicago Department of Human Services and as Chicago City Treasurer.

14 tapes, 1050 mins., 2 vols., 244 pp., plus index Interview by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1979-81 OPEN See collateral file