Walt Horan Papers, 1940-1964

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Walt Horan
Papers, 1940-1964

The papers of Walter Franklin Horan, Representative in Congress from the 5th District of the State of Washington, were given to the Washington State University Library in 1964 by Mr. Horan. They were processed in July to November of 1965 by Earle Connett.

Number of containers: 605
Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 253
Approximate number of items: 360,800

The literary rights in the unpublished writings of Mr. Horan in these papers have been dedicated to the public, except that these rights are reserved to Mr. Horan during his lifetime.

BIOGRAPHY

1898: Born, Wenatchee, Washington

1925: A. B. Washington State University, Pullman
Married Helen Lucile Campbell
Orchardist
1942: Elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1964)
Member of the Agriculture, Legislative, State, Commerce, Justice, and Judiciary Sub-Committees of the House Appropriations Committee; Chairman of the District of Columbia Committee.
1946: LL.D Whitworth College, Spokane

DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS

The papers in this collection consist of correspondence to and from Mr. Horan interfiled and combined with other printed materials used in his official work, consisting of:
Government documents when these were important to his work and to the file for reference and record; Pamphlet and similar materials both solicited and unsolicited issued by Government agencies and corporate bodies and organizations; Working papers and materials used in the legislative processes on the floor of the Congress and in Hearings, including Mr. Horan’s recorded participation and his Bills; Records of services rendered constituents in their personal and official intercourse with the Government, civil and military; Communications with constituents through radio, TV, and newsletter; and, Political materials of national, regional, and local concern, including biennial campaigns.

ARRANGEMENT

The collection was received in excellent condition and in the main the original arrangement has been preserved. Exceptions were made when the functions of an agency or bureau, for example, were modified, transferred, or ceased, or when a more comprehensive arrangement seemed desirable to bring all the papers having to do with same subject into closer promimity ot simplify its use.

The outgoing office correspondence constitutes a name-index arranged alphabetically by years and will be useful in certain approaches to the papers. For example, a searcher wishing to examine the known correspondence of a Mr. Brown of Spokane may easily determine that Mr. Horan wrote to him on February 15, 1951, concerning the Rural Electrification Administration. Examination of the file of this agency in Container No. 259 will produce Mr. Brown’s letter of February 7, 1951, another copy of Mr. Horan’s reply, and attached will be any other correspondence Mr. Horan may have had with other persons or Government agencies in connection with his reply, along with a copy of any printed material which Mr. Horan sent to Mr. Brown.

SERIES LIST

Box	Description	No. of Boxes

1-3	Series 1: Personal Correspondence and Invitations	3
4-68	Series 2: Outgoing Office Correspondence	65
69-99	Series 3: Appropriations	31
100-292	Series 4: Departmental	193
293-499	Series 5: Subject	207
500-540	Series 6: Legislation	41
541-547	Series 7: Communication with Constituents	7
548-605	Series 8: Political	58

1-10	Extension	10
11-58	Second Extension	48

CONTAINER LIST

Box	Description

Series 1: Personal Correspondence and Invitations

1	Personal Correspondence
2-3	Invitations

Series 2: Outgoing Office Correspondence

Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1943-1950
4	A-B
5	B
6	B-C
7	C
8	C-D
9	D-E
10	F-G
11	G-H
12	H
13	H-J
14	J-K
15	K-L
16	L-M
17	M
18	N-P
19	P-R
20	R
21-22	S
23	T
24	V-W
25	W-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1951-1952
26	A-C
27	D-H
28	H-L
29	M-Q
30	R-T
31	U-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1953
32	A-G
33	H-N
34	O-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1954
35	A-G
36	H-O
37	P-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1955
38	A-H
39	I-R
40	S-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1956
41	A-I
42	J-S
43	T-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1957
44	A-G
45	H-Q
46	R-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1958
47	A-G
48	H-O
49	P-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1959
50	A-G
51	H-O
52	P-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1960
53	A-F
54	G-N
55	O-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1961
56	A-D
57	E-K
58	L-P
59	Q-V
60	W-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1962
61	A-D
62	E-K
63	L-R
64	S-Z
Outgoing Office Correspondence, Outgoing Office Correspondence, 1963
65	A-G
66	H-M
67	N-U
68	V-Z

Series 3: Appropriations

69	1945-46
70	1947
71	1948
72	1949
73	1950
74	1951
75	1952
76	1953-54
77	1955-57
78	1957-58
79	1959
80	1960-61
81	1962
82	1963
83	1964
84	Army civil functions, 1948-55
85-86	Commerce, Judiciary, Justice and State Departments, 1946-1957
Interior Department
87	1946-47
88	1948-50
89	1951-63
Legislative Branch
90	1949-54
91	1955-63
92	1963-64
93	Public works, 1958-64
Miscellaneous
94	1947-49
95	1950-51
96	1952-53
97	1954-57
98	1958-61
99	1962-65

Series 4: Departmental

Academies
	Applicants and Candidates
100	A-C
101	D-H
102	I-M
103	R-S
104	T-Z
105	Cadets, naval and military
106	Cadets, Air, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine
107	Miscellaneous
108 Agriculture Adjustment Agency and subsidies, 1943-44
109 Agriculture Stablization and Conservation Service, 1956-64
Armed Forces
110	Army, 1943-47
111	Navy and Coast Guard, 1943-57
	Conscription
112	1943-46
113	1947-48
114	1949-51
115	1952-55
116	1955-64
117	Allotments and Insurance; Cemeteries; Civilian Pilot Training; Demobilization
118	Discharges; Furloughs; Housing; Obituaries
119	Office of War Information; Officer Candidate School and Commissions; Pearl Harbor; Post War Problems
120	Prisoners of War and Missing in Action; Prisoner of War Camps (Domestic)
121	Releases; Soldier-Sailor Vote; Transfers; War Claims
122	Bureau of Standards
Civil Service
123	1943-1945
124	1946-1948
125	1949-53
126	1953-56
127	1957-58
128	1959-61
129	1962-63
130	1964
Columbia Interstate Commission
131	1949
132	1950-60
Columbia Valley Authority
133	1945-57
134	1948-50
135 Commerce Department
136 Commodity Credit Corporation
137 District of Columbia, 1945-47
Education, Office of
143	1943-48
144	1948-49
145	1950-56
146	1957-58
147	1959-60
148	1960-61
149	1961
150	1962-63
151	1963-64
152	1962-64 Prayers
153 Farm Forum (Spokane)
Farm Policy Information
154	1951-56
155	1957-58
156 Farm Security Administration
Farmer’s Home Administration
157	1946-60
158	1961-64
Foreign Agriculture Relations, Office of
159	1949-55
160	1955-64
Federal Communications Commission
161	1943-62
162	1963-64
163	1958-60 Paid T-V
164	1954-59 Bridgeport T-V
165 Federal Reserve System
166 Federal Trade Commission
Forest Service
167	1943-48
168	1948-54
169	1955-57
170	1958-59
171	1960-61
172	1961
173	1962-64
General Services Administration
174	1948-58
175	1959-64
176	1964
Health Department
177	1947-64
178	1943-59 Medicare
179	1960-61 Medicare
180-182	162 Medicare
183	1963-64 Medicare
184	1944-64 Hospitals
Hoover Commission
185	1949-56
186	1957-59
Internal Revenue, Bureau of
187	1943-56
188	1957-60
189	1961-64
Interstate Commerce Commission
190	1947-51
191	1952-60
192	1961
193	1962-64
Justice Department
194	1947-63 FBI, 1950-64
195 Library of Congress
National Defense, Department of
196	1948-64 Legislation
197	1948-51 Personal A-G
198	Personal H-R
199	Personal S-Z
200	1952-57 Personal A-L
201	Personal M-Z
202	1955-57 Personal A-M
203	Personal N-Z
204	1958-60 Personal A-I
205	Personal J-Z
206	1961-64 Personal A-H
207	Personal I-P
208	Personal Q-Z
209	1947-52 Miscellaneous
210	1953-55 Miscellaneous
211	1956-59 Miscellaneous
212	1959-60 Miscellaneous
213	1961-62 Miscellaneous
214	1962-63 Miscellaneous
215	1963-64 Miscellaneous
216 National Park Service
217 National Production Authority
218 Northwest Horticulture Council
219-222 Office of Price Administration, 1945-46
Post Office Department
223	1943-47 Legislation and Personnel
224	1947-48 Legislation and Personnel
225	1948-49 Legislation and Personnel
226	1950-51 Legislation and Personnel
227	1951-52 Legislation and Personnel
228	1953 Legislation and Personnel
229	1954 Legislation and Personnel
230	1955 Legislation and Personnel
231	1956 Legislation and Personnel
232	1957-59 Legislation and Personnel
233	1960 Legislation and Personnel
234	1960-61 Legislation and Personnel
235	1962-64 Legislation and Personnel
Places by County
236	Chelan A-M
237	Chelan O-W
238	Douglas B-W
	Ferry B-R
239	Lincoln B-W
240	Okanogan A-N
241	Okanogan O-W
242	Pend Oreille C-U
243	Spokane A-F
244	Spokane G-W
245	1943-54 Spokane (City)
246	1955-60 Spokane (City)
247	1961-64 Spokane (City)
248	Stevens A-V
Price Controls and Stabilization
249	1945-47
250	1948-52
251	1952-53
Production and Marketing Administration
252	1945-50
253	1950-52
254	1953-64
Railroad Retirement
255	1944-52
256	1953-64
257 Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1948-55
258 Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation
Rural Electrification Administration
259	1943-52
260	1953-58
261	1959-64
262 Securities Exchange Commission
Social Security Administration
263	1944-50
264	1951-56
265	1957
266	1958-64 Cases
	1960-64 Legislation
State Department
267	1943-49
268	1950-54
269	1955-58
270	1959-61
271	1962-63
272	1964
273 Townsend Plan, 1944-64
274 U. S. Information Agency
Veterans’ Administration
275	1943-45 Legislation
276	1945-50 Legislation
277	1951-58 Legislation
278	1959-60 Legislation
279	1961-62 Legislation
280	1963-64 Legislation
281	1943-46 Cases
282	1947-48 Cases
283	1949-51 Cases
284	1952-54 Cases
285	1955-57 Cases
286	1958-60 Cases
287	1961-64 Cases
288	1945-64 Miscellaneous
289	Hospitals
290 Voice of America
291 War Production Board
292 Weather Bureau

Series 5: Subject

Agriculture, Miscellanous
293	1945-48
294	1949-53
295	1954-64
296 Atomic Energy, 1945-64
Aviation
297	1943-50
298	1951-55
299	1956-58
300	1959-60
301	1961-64
Budget, Cost of Living, National Debt
302	1947-52
303	1953-59
304	1960-62
305	1962-64
306 Census, 1963-64
Chambers of Commerce
307	Seattle, 1944-48
308	Seattle, 1949-64
309	Seattle, 1959-62 Century 21
310	Spokane, 1947-64
311	Wenatchee, 1943-64
312	Miscellaneous, 1943-64
313 Chemicals in Foods
314 Civil Defense, 1951-64
Civil Rights
315	1947-63
316	1963-64
317	1964
Claims, private
318	1945-54
319	1955-63
315 Crop Insurance
Customs
321	1946-56
322	1957-64
323 Dairy-Oleomargine
Employment, Government
324	1949-56
325	1957-59
326	1960-64
327 Equal rights for women
328 Fertilizers
329 Fish and Wildlife
330 Fishing, Commerical
331-332 Floods
Foreign Aid
333	1946-48
334	1949-58
335	1959-61
336	1962-64
337 Fruit and Vegetables
338 Gas and Oil
Grange
339	1943-54
340	1955-64
Highways
341	1943-52
342	1953-55
343	1956-59
344	1960-64
Housing
345	1943-47
346	1948-49
347	1950-53
348	1954-56
349	1957-64
Immigration
350	1943-52
351	1953-60
352	1961-64
Indians
353	1943-47
354	1948-49
355	1950-52
356	1953-54
357	1955
358	1956
359	1957-59
360	1960-61
361	1962-64
362 Industries, Pacific Northwest, 1944-64
363 Insurance and Banking
Irrigation and Reclamation
364	1943-45
365	1946-47
366	1947-48
367	1948-49
368	1949
369-370	1950
371	1951
372	1952
373	1952-54
374	1955
375	1956
376-377	1957
378	1958
379-380	1959
381	1960-61
382	1962
383	1960-62 Spokane Valley
384	1963-64
Labor and Unemployment
385	1943-44
386	1944-45
387	1946-47
388	1947-48
389-390	1949
391	1950-51
392	1952-53
393	1954-56
394	1957-58
395	1959
396	1960
397	1961-62
398	1963-64
399 Labor, farm
Land Management
400	1949-62
401	1963-64
402 Libraries
403 Livestock, 1944-62
	Lumber and Timber
404	1957-62
405	1963-64
Mines and Minerals
406	1942-44
407	1945-49
408	1950-52
409	1953-57
410	1958-61
411	1962-64
412	1964
413 Patents
Peace
414	1945-47
415	1948-49
416	1950-54
417	1955-59
418	1960-61
419	1962-64
Power
420	1943-44
421	1945
422	1946-48
423	1949-50
424	1950
425	1951
426	1952-53
427	1954
428	1955
429	1956
430	1957
431	1958-59
432	1960
433	1961
434	1962
435	1963-64
436	1964
437	1954-58 Rocky Reach P.U.D
438 Prohibition
439 Rationing
Recommendations and Thanks
440	1947-54
441	1955-59
442	1960-64
443 Rent Control, 1947-53
Research, Agricultural
444	1951-55
445	1956-58
446	1959-64
Small Business
447	1943-55
448	1956-59
449	1960-62
450	1963-64
Soil Conservation
451	1947-52
452	1953-55
453	1956-64
454 School Lunch
455 Spokane (City) Miscellaneous
456 Sugar
457 Surplus Property
Tariff
458	1947-49
459	1950-55
460	1956-61
461	1962-64
Taxes
462	1943-47
463	1948
464	1949
465	1950
466	1950-52
467	1953
468	1954-56
469	1957-58
470	1959-60
471	1961
472-473	1962
474	1963
475	1963-64
476 Territories, Possessions, etc.
477 Transporation and Shipping
478 Truman-McArthur, Korean War
Un-American Activities
479	1947-57
480	1958-61
481	1961-64
482 Unemployment Insurance
483 United Nations
Universities, Colleges, Schools
484	E-H
485	M-W
486 Urban Renewal
Washington State, Miscellaneous
487	1947-52
488	1953-64
489 Weed and Rodent Control
Wheat
490	1946-52
491	1953-57
492	1958
493	1959-62
494	1963-64
495-496	1964

497 Wheat to Russia, 1962-64
Wilderness Areas
498	1951-60
499	1961-64

Series 6: Legislation

Agriculture
500	1943-50
501	1951-56
502	1957-60
503	1962
504	1963-64
Horan
505	1945-47
506	1948-49
507	1949
508-509	1950
510	1951-52
511	1953-54
512	1955
513	1956-57
514-515	1958 Ft. Wright
516	1958-59
517-518	1960
519	1960-61
520	1961-62
521	1962-63
522-523	1963
524	1963-64
Miscellaneous
525	1947-48
526	1949-50
527	1951-53
528	1954
529	1955-56
530	1957
531	1958
532	1959
533	1960
534-535	1961
536-538	1962
539	1963
540	1963-64

Series 7: Communication with Constituents

Newsletters
541	1945-64
542	1945-64 Correspondence
Radio Broadcasts
543	1949-50
544	1951-52
545	1953-54
546	1955-57
547	1949-57 Correspondence

Series 8: Political

General and Practical Politics
548	1942-44
549	1947
550	1948-49
551	1950
552	1951-52
553	1953-54
554	1955-56
555	1957-58
556	1959-60
557	1961-64
558	Lincoln Day
Campaigns
559-560	1948
561-562	1949
563-565	1950-51
566-567	1952
568-570	1954
571-573	1956
574-576	1958
577-578	1960
579	1962
580-581	1964
582-583	Speech Kits
584-585	Politics in Congress
586	Inaugurals
587-588	Patronage
Travels
589	1947-50
590	1951-52
591	1953
592	1954-55
593	1955-56
594	1957-58
595	1959-61
596	1961
597	1962-63
598	1964
599-603	Newspaper Clippings
604-605	Picture File

WALT HORAN: EXTENSION

Box	Description	Date

1	Personal Correspondence	1942
2	Outgoing Office Correspondence, A-J	1942-43
3	Outgoing Office Correspondence, K-W	1942-43
District of Columbia:
4	Juvenal Court	1948-49
	National Guard Armory	1948-49
	Health	1948-49
	Recreation	1948-49
	Sales Tax	1948-49
	Police	1948-49
	Board of Trade	1948-49
	Alcoholic Clinic	1948-49
	Home Rule	1948-49
	Budget	1948-49
5	Dept of Construction	1948-49
	Sanitary Engineering	1948-49
	Vehicles and Traffic	1947-48-49
	Hospitals	1948-49
	Schools	1948
	Misc. Hearings	1948
6	Outgoing Office Correspondence	1943-49
Legislation
7	Horan	1947
	78-79-80th Congresses	1947-48
	Second 80th Congress	1948
	First 81st Congress	1949
8	Farm Policy	1948-49
9	Misc. Campaign Materials	1942-62
10	Newspaper Clippings	1943

WALT HORAN: SECOND EXTENSION

Box	Description

Personal correspondence
11	1943-46
12	1947-48
13	1949-50
14	1953-1954
15	1956,1958-1959
16	1959-1961
17	1962-1963
18	1963-1964
Personal invitations
19	1943-1948
20	1949-1950
21	1951-1953
22	1954-1955
23	1958
24	1959
25	1960-1961
26	1962
27	1963
28	1964
Family (correspondence)
29	1949-1953
30	1955-1959
31	1960-1964
Personal papers, 1943-1964
32	General misc. personal correspondence
	Letters from friends
	Misc. letters
	Misc.: "very interesting"
	Sally Horan
	Lilian Siegler
	Letters when in hospital, 1964
	Consolation notes - Gammie (Mrs. Margaret Horan)
	Christmas letters
	Mrs. Notewane
33	Walt’s jokes and poems
	Quotations for speeches
	Speeches
	1946 primary campaign
	Record of publications in papers
	Mens’ Bible class
	Clyde Kelly Bible class correspondence
34	Scrapbook - honorary luncheon
	Gridiron dinner
	Sig Ep luncheon for Walter Rogers (1958)
	Burning Tree Country Club
	Army-Navy Club
	Breakfast Club
	Lion’s Club correspondence
	Capitol Hill Club
	Schedule (1959)
35	Overseas trip (1945)
	Sales slips from trip
	Pictures from overseas trip
	Income tax check 1949, 1950, 1953 (re: trip)
	Personal-Germany-Cradle shipment
	Royal Dalton figurines
	Chevy Chase Parking 1953
	Automobile papers, gasoline rationing, etc.
	Automobile papers
36-37	Campaign Scrapbooks, 1940
38	Clippings Scrapbook, 1943-1944
39	Campaign Scrapbook, 1944
40-43	Overseas Trip Scrapbook, 1945
44	Campaign Scrapbook, 1946
45-46	Clippings Scrapbook, 1947
47 Campaign Scrapbook (partial), 1948
48	1950
49	1952
50	1954
51	1956
52	1958
53 Clippings of Horan portraits, 1957-1963
54	1960
55	1962
56	1964
57	Cards received while in hospital, 1964
58	Clippings and other material, 1944-1955

1898:	Born, Wenatchee, Washington

1925:	A. B. Washington State University, Pullman
	Married Helen Lucile Campbell
	Orchardist
1942:	Elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1964)
	Member of the Agriculture, Legislative, State, Commerce, Justice, and Judiciary Sub-Committees of the House Appropriations Committee; Chairman of the District of Columbia Committee.
1946:	LL.D Whitworth College, Spokane