ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Robert W. McCarthy, Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1954-61 and the Illinois State Senate 1961-1977, discusses his involvement in a variety of legislative issues: reapportionment, abolishment of the death penalty and anti-subversion issues, judicial, legislative, and fiscal reforms, financial institutions, civil rights, and labor legislation. Also discusses the years before election to the General Assembly: family, early life in Lincoln, education, WWII, early law practice, work as Public Administrator, personal attorney to Secretary of State Alan Dixon and current law practice.

19 tapes, 876 mins., 2 vols., 182 pp., plus index Interview by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1980-81 OPEN See collateral file