Discover Our Collections


Limit your search

Tag

54 results

Hope, John, II (Item)
  • Hope, John, II
McMahon, Robert F. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: World War II pilot
Muller, Mark T. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Signal Corps 1939-1967; veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Palmer, Joseph, II (Item)
  • Palmer, Joseph, II
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Eldest son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; World War II veteran; U.S. congressman 1955-1965; delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council 1965-1966.
Wilson, Lee  (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Donor of clippings related to World War II, flood control in Louisiana, and other subjects
Bailey, Charles Waldo, II, 1929-2012 (Item)
  • Bio: Charles Waldo Bailey, II (b. April 28, 1929, Boston, Massachusetts-d. January 3, 2012, Englewood, New Jersey), journalist, newspaper editor, novelist. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1946 and Harvard University in 1950, where he
  • Bailey, Charles Waldo, II, 1929-2012
Martin, Clarence Riggs, 1921-1989 (Item)
  • Bio: Clarence Riggs Martin was a Captain in the United States Air Force and Director of the Air Forces Association at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Louisiana State University, and served in World War II and the Korean War.
Barney, Delbert, 1912-1996 (Item)
  • Bio: Delbert Barney (b. January 9, 1912, Mexico-d. July 30, 1996, Provo, Utah), was a member of the Mormon Church and served as an Army chaplain during World War II.
Weede, Richard Garfield, 1911-1985 (Item)
  • Bio: Richard Garfield Weede (b. Sept. 26, 1911, Sterling, Kan.-d. Oct. 22, 1985, Portsmouth, Va.), U.S. Marine Corps officer, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1935. He served on Guam prior to the outbreak of World War II when he joined
Pucinski, Roman C., 1919-2002 (Item)
  • Bio: (1919-2002) World War II veteran; staff reporter and writer, Chicago Sun-Times, 1939-1959; chief investigator, Congressional Special Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest
Smykal, Louis Joseph, 1916-2004 (Item)
  • War II. He was the owner and operator of Smykal Business Machines in Austin
Turchin, Charles R., 1911-1983 (Item)
  • in the United States Army during World War II from 1942 to 1946.
Clifton, Chester Victor, Jr., 1913-1991 (Item)
  • Bio: Chester Victor Clifton, well known as Ted, (b. September 13, 1913, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-d. December 23, 1991, Washington, D.C.) was a World War II commanding general and Assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the 1940s
Mangan, James W. (Item)
  • Bio: James W. Mangan (b. July 25, 1928, Honesdale, Pennsylvania - d. September 4, 2015, San Antonio, Texas) was a journalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP) for 36 years. Mangan served in the U.S. Army in the years after World War II before
Laitin, Joseph (Item)
  • Bio: Joseph Laitin was a journalist and government official. He began at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the Standard News Association. During World War II he was head of the United Press staff in Washington, D.C., and later became a war correspondent
LeMay, Curtis E. (Curtis Emerson), 1906-1990 (Item)
  • Bio: Curtis Emerson LeMay (1906-1990) was a U.S. Air Force general who directed the bombing of Japan in World War II, and helped lead the bombing in Germany. He built the Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War, and served as Air Force Chief
Jacobson, George (Item)
  • Bio: (1912-1989) World War II veteran; special assistant to the chief of Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) 1954-1957; deputy chief of staff, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) 1961-1964; associate director of field operations
Moss, Frank E., 1911-2003 (Item)
  • with the Air Corps during World War II, from 1942 to 1945 and was a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He was elected as a Democrat to the Senate in 1958, serving from 1959 to 1977.
Phinney, Carl L. (Carl Lawrence), 1904-1987 (Item)
  • Bio: Carl Lawrence Phinney (b. Oct. 22, 1904, Marble Falls, Tex.-d. Jan. 10, 1987), U.S. Army general and commanding general in the Texas National Guard, graduated from law school and then enlisted in the National Guard in 1925. During World War II
Popple, Paul M., 1920-1994 (Item)
  • Bio: Paul M. Popple was born in Chicago in 1920 and graduated from Northwestern University. During World War II, he served in the Army in Europe. In 1948, he joined the Foreign Service and in 1964 and 1965, Popple was detailed to the White House
Feldman, George Joseph, 1903-1994 (Item)
  • as a lawyer with the Federal Trade Commission and the National Recovery Administration. During World War II, he joined the Air Force, eventually attaining the rank of major. From 1965 to 1967, after being appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, he served
Johnson, Harold Keith, 1912-1983 (Item)
  • , and served in World War II and the Korean War, during which time he reached the rank of general. He served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from July 3, 1964 to July 2, 1968, and supervised the Army during the major expansion and deployments of the Vietnam
Smathers, George A. (George Armistead), 1913-2007 (Item)
  • II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945. He was elected as a Democrat to two terms in the Congress, serving from 1947 to 1951, and was elected to the Senate, serving three terms from 1951 to 1969.
Carter, Clifton Crawford, 1918-1971 (Item)
  • as a lieutenant colonel during World War II. He began working with Johnson in 1937, as an assistant during the early years of Johnson's political career. He later served as Johnson's Chief Political Advisor to President Lyndon Johnson, and as Executive Director
Bookbinder, Hyman Harry, 1916-2011 (Item)
  • Bio: Hyman Harry Bookbinder (b. March 9, 1916, Brooklyn, New York-d. July 21, 2011, Bethesda, Maryland), was a 1937 graduate of the City College of New York and served in the Navy during World War II. He spent his early Washington career
McNamara, Robert Strange, 1916-2009 (Item)
  • Bio: Robert Strange McNamara (b. June 9, 1916, in San Francisco, California-d. July 2009, Washington, D.C.) was a business executive and Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. During World War II he worked
Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981 (Item)
  • and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served in the 52nd and 54th Legislatures representing Grayson and Collin counties in the Texas House of Representatives. Between 1958 and 1961, he worked as an assistant to Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker
Goldberg, Irving Loeb, 1906-1995 (Item)
  • . He was a U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant during World War II, from 1942 to 1946, and was thereafter again in private practice in Dallas until 1966. On June 28, 1966, Goldberg was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a new seat on the United
Lampman, Robert James, 1920-1997 (Item)
  • as a naval air navigator in the Pacific during World War II, he returned to the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he received a doctorate in labor economics. Lampman taught at the University of Washington for 10 years, and in 1958 he was appointed
Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1908-1987 (Item)
  • Bio: Edward G. Lansdale (b. 1908, Detroit, Michigan-d. Feb. 23, 1987), U.S. Air Force officer, served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and in 1943 was commissioned in the U.S. Army, serving in various military
Cutler, Lloyd N., 1917- (Item)
  • June 1979, he became Counsel to the President on the ratification of the SALT II treaty. On August 17, 1979 the President announced Cutler's appointment as Counsel to the President. Cutler served in that position from October 1, 1979 through November 30
Alford, Dorothy Burkett, 1920-2012 (Item)
  • Democratic conventions. She married Sam B. Plyler in 1940 and Colonel David Gaston Alford in 1972. The Alfords lived in Wichita Falls, Texas before moving to Air Force Village II in San Antonio, Texas. She is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Joe W. Burkett
Ball, George W. (George Wildman), 1909-1994 (Item)
  • of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in London, England, and briefly following World War II, served as General Counsel for the French Supply Council in Washington, D.C., from 1945 to 1946. Ball became the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in 1961
Parker, Edith H., 1905-1985 (Item)
  • , and penned the declaration of war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Parker received her doctorate in history from the University of Texas and taught at Northwestern Oklahoma State University from 1953 to 1954; East Texas
Gehrig, James J., 1921-2003 (Item)
  • in World War II when he was a platoon leader in the Philippine Islands. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1949 with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics. He also studied at the University of Delaware and University of California Los
Gibbons, William Conrad, 1926 (Item)
  • Bio: William Conrad Gibbons (b. September 26, 1926, Harrisonburg, Virginia), entered the University of Virginia in 1945, but his studies were interrupted in order to serve in World War II. He worked on Capitol Hill for both Senator Wayne Morse
Holverson, James Durie, 1921-1986  (Item)
  • junior college he began working at the Cotton Belt Railway (also known as the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company) in Tyler, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He is the son of Durie and Ruth Holverson. He married
Jenkins, Warwick Hoxie, III, 1921-2001 (Item)
  • for Texas and chairman of the Ellis County Democratic Party. Jenkins served in the United States Army during World War II. He is interred in Waxahachie City Cemetery in Waxahachie, Texas.
Maldonado, Jose 1904-2004 (Item)
  • Citizens, in 1947 and worked on Lyndon Johnson’s 1948 Senate and presidential campaigns, including the Viva Johnson campaign. Maldonado served in the United States Army during World War II from 1942 to 1946. He married Rafaela Hinojosa in 1934; they have