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Spingarn, Stephen J. (Stephen Joel), 1908-1984 (Item)
  • of the Democratic National Committee in 1956.
  • LBJ Connection: Member of the Small Business Advisory Committee, Democratic National Committee
Bailey, John M. (John Moran), 1904-1975 (Item)
  • Bio: John M. Bailey was a politician from Hartford, Connecticut who served as the Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic Party from 1946 to 1975 and as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1961 until 1968.
  • LBJ Connection: Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1961-1968
Louchheim, Katie (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1966-1969; Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee
Bush, Dorothy V. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: First woman Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, 1944-1988
McDermott, Eugene (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Chairman of Texas Instruments; Director, Executive Volunteers, Democratic National Committee.
McDermott, Frank W. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Director of the Executive Volunteers of the Democratic National Committee in 1964.
Underwood, Marty (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Democratic National Committee Advance Man for President Kennedy’s trip to Houston
Ginsburg, David, 1912-2010 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, the President’s Commission on Postal Organization, 1967; Executive Director, National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission), 1967-1968; General counsel, Democratic National Committee
Farley, James Aloysius, 1888-1976 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: U.S. Postmaster General, 1933-1940; Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 1932-1940
O'Donnell, Kenneth P. (Kenneth Phillip), 1924-1977 (Item)
  • Assistant to the President, and in 1964 served as the Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee. In 1965, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, and in 1968, he was the Campaign Manager
  • LBJ Connection: Appointments Secretary to President Kennedy; Special Assistant to President Johnson, 1963-1965; Executive Director, National Democratic Committee, 1964-1965.
Kennedy, Vann (Item)
  • Bio: (1905- ) Bureau manager for the International News Service at Austin; newspaper correspondent; Secretary of the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee, 1930s and 1940s; President and General Manager of Corpus Christi television station
  • LBJ Connection: Secretary of Texas Democratic Party, 1937; Texas delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1948; Assistant State Director, 1960 Kennedy/Johnson presidential campaign
Birkhead, Kenneth Milton, 1914-1979 (Item)
  • Bio: Kenneth Milton Birkhead (1914-1979), a democrat involved in many campaigns, was the Associate Director of Public Relations for the Research Division of the Democratic National Committee, during the 1948 presidential campaign. From 1961 to 1968
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture; National Director, Rural Americans for Johnson-Humphrey, 1964
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980 (Item)
  • chairman of the Democratic State central committee and chairman of the women’s division from 1940 to 1944. Douglas was also a member of the national advisory committee of the Works Progress Administration and of the State committee of the National Youth
Boggs, Lindy, 1916- (Item)
  • -1990. She was the first woman to preside over a national convention, the Democratic National Convention, in 1976, and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Vatican.
  • LBJ Connection: U.S. Congresswoman, Louisiana, 1973-1990; Widow of Hale Boggs; Chairperson of Inaugural Ball Committee for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Desautels, Claude J. (Claude John), 1921-1982 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison, 1961-1966; Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General, 1966-1968; Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1968-1969
Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981 (Item)
  • Bio: Emanuel Celler (1881-1981) was an attorney; a delegate and member, Platform Committee of Democratic National Conventions, 1942-1964; and a U.S. Congressman, New York, 1923-1973.
Tobias, Andrew, 1947- (Item)
  • Bio: Andrew Tobias is an author, mainly on financial and business topics, who served as the Treasurer for the Democratic National Committee from 1999 until 2017.
Weisl, Edwin L. (Edwin Louis), Sr. 1896-1972 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of LBJ; National Democratic Committeeman; Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee; Counsel, Committee on Space andAeronautics
Wilson, Henry H. (Henry Hall), 1921-1979 (Item)
  • Carolina legislature from 1953 to 1959, and at the same time, a member of the Democratic National Committee (1953-1961). He was the North Carolina delegate to Democratic National Convention and President of the North Carolina Young Democrats Committee
Dutton, Frederick G., 1923- (Item)
  • Director, Platform Committee, Democratic National Convention, 1964; Board of Regents, University of California
Pickle, J. J. (James Jarrell), 1913- (Item)
  • Democratic executive committee from 1957 to 1960.
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend and political supporter of LBJ; staff, National Youth Administration, Texas; U.S. Congressman, Texas, 1963-1995
O'Brien, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Francis), 1917-1990 (Item)
  • Relations and Personnel from 1961 to 1965, Postmaster General of the United States from 1965 to 1968, and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1968 to 1972. O'Brien authored No Final Victories in 1974.
  • LBJ Connection: National Director, Kennedy for President, 1959-1960; Special Assistant to President Kennedy for Congressional Relations, 1961-1963, to President Johnson, 1963-1965; Postmaster General of the U.S., 1965-1968
Carter, Clifton Crawford, 1918-1971 (Item)
  • of the Democratic National Committee. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1960 to assist Johnson in his role as vice-president. He left the Democratic National Committee in 1966 to head his own public relations firm in Washington, D.C.
Martin, Louis, 1912-1997 (Item)
  • and Johnson on race-related issues. He was deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1961 to December 1968. In 1978, Martin was appointed special assistant to President Jimmy Carter for Black Affairs, specializing in policies affecting
  • LBJ Connection: Newspaper publisher; Deputy Chairman for Minorities, Democratic National Committee, 1961-1969
Hannegan, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1903-1949 (Item)
  • to 1945 he was the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. From 1944 to 1947 he served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. From 1945 to 1947 he was Postmaster General of the United States, and from 1947 to 1949 served as President of the Cardinal
Jordan, Barbara, 1936- (Item)
  • Bio: (1936-1996) First female African-American Senator elected to the Texas State Senate, 1966-1972; U.S. Congresswoman, 1972-1978; Member, House Judiciary Committee during Nixon impeachment hearings; Delivered keynote address at Democratic National
Edwards, India, 1895-1990 (Item)
  • to Washington, D.C. In 1943 Edward's son, John Holbrook Moffett, was killed in World War II. In 1944 Edwards was a Volunteer for the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). From 1945 to 1947 she was the Executive Secretary of the Women's
  • LBJ Connection: Director, Women’s Division, Democratic National Committee
Hood, Buck, 1906-1983 (Item)
  • . Johnson’s 1941 Senate campaign, for the Democratic National Committee, was appointed to President John F. Kennedy’s Committee for Traffic Safety in 1962, and helped arrange foreign visits for then President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was married to Lorraine
Strauss, Robert Schwarz, 1918-2014 (Item)
  • ; and a partner in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, 1945 to 1977 and 1981. He held a number of positions with the Democratic National Committee (DNC), including committeeman from Texas, 1968 to 1972; member of the executive committee
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time Democratic Party leader
Greigg, Stanley L. (Item)
  • Administration, 1967-1969; Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1970-1972; Director of the Lawrence F. O’Brien Center at Dag Hammarskjold College, 1972; Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, Congressional Budget Office, 1975-1998
Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988 (Item)
  • . In 1936, James Farley appointed Cuneo associate general counsel of the Democratic National Committee. When World War II began, General William Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), appointed Cuneo liaison officer between the OSS, British
  • LBJ Connection: Associate Counsel, Democratic National Committee, 1936-1940; White House Liaison Officer, OSS, 1942-1945; Chairman of the Board, National American Newspaper Alliance, Inc., 1950-1963
Watson, William Marvin, 1924 (Item)
  • . From 1955 until 1965, Mr. Watson was Executive Assistant to E.B. Germany at Lone Star Steel Company in Dallas, Texas. Watson's involvement in Texas politics included being named a member of the Texas State Democratic Committee in 1958. Later, in 1960
  • LBJ Connection: Special Assistant to the President, 1965-1966; White House Chief of Staff, 1967-1968; Appointments secretary, political adviser, liaison with Democratic National Committee and others. Postmaster General, 1968-1969.
Tully, Grace, 1900-1984 (Item)
  • Bio: Grace Tully was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, on August 9, 1900. She went to work for the Democratic National Committee in 1928, and her first assignment was to assist Eleanor Roosevelt in organizing support for presidential candidate Al Smith
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 (Item)
  • Administration, and ran for Mayor of Minneapolis under the Farmer-Labor Party in 1943. He made a strong showing but lost the election. He convinced the Democratic National Committee to merge with the Farmer-Labor Party in 1944, and in 1945 he ran again for Mayor
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922- (Item)
  • Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, 1968 to 1977; president of Middle East Policy Council; and U.S. representative to various United Nations agencies and conferences. McGovern received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.
Porter, Paul Aldermandt, 1904-1975 (Item)
  • of the Office of Price Administration from 1942 to 1943; administrator with the War Food Administration; associate director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, July 1943 to February 1944; and campaign publicity director of the Democratic National Committee
Roche, Charles D., 1927-1993 (Item)
  • campaign organization in 1960 as Director of Public Relations for Bryon White of the Citizens for Kennedy and Johnson. Following the 1960 election, Roche was named as Deputy Chairman to John Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In January
Tobriner, Walter Nathan, 1902-1979  (Item)
  • Arts, from 1964 to 1967. He served as United States Ambassador to Jamaica from 1967 to 1969. Tobriner was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1956, 1960, and 1964. He was a member of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City from 1974
Harlow, Bryce Nathaniel, 1916-1987 (Item)
  • in 1947 as director of the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee. He held this position until he joined the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 as an administrative assistant. Eisenhower was the first president
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant Librarian, House of Representatives, 1938-1940; Chief Clerk, House Armed Services Committee, 1950-1951; Special Assistant and Deputy Assistant to President Eisenhower, 1953-1961; Adviser to President Nixon, 1969-1970
Daniels, Jonathan W. (Jonathan Worth), 1902-1981 (Item)
  • to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He became Roosevelt's Press Secretary in 1945. From 1947 to 1952, Daniels was a member of the Democratic National Committee in North Carolina, and from 1947 t0 1953 he was the U.S. member of the United Nations Subcommittee