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  • Tom McNiff Jr. (1940-2017) was son of Thomas McNiff and Loretta M. Glennon. He researched the American side of the British-American intellegence Operation BGFIEND / OBOPUS (1949-1958), a western paramilitary attempt to infiltrate and arm the Albanian resistance against Communist dictator Enver…
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    The UNH Bicentennial Committee was appointed by acting president Mills and charged with coordinating campus efforts to celebrate the United States' Bicentennial. This series contains the files of the UNH Bicentennial Committee, including minutes and…
  • University Archives
    This series contains one issue of a newsletter produced by the group Students for Open Debate at the University of New Hampshire. The group and its publication was intended as an organized alternative to the newsletter "Strike Daily" that was produced at the same time (see collection UA 18/7/9).
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    This series consists of one pamphlet containing the address given by Congressman Justin S. Morrill in the Vermont State House of Representatives. Senator Morrill discusss his role in the creation of the Land-Grant Colleges and their success.
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    Edward Morgan Lewis served as president of the University of New Hampshire from September 1, 1927 to May 24, 1936. Lewis received both his undergraduate and graduate education from Williams College. He came to UNH from Massachusetts Agricultural…
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    In 1962 Thomas J. McIntyre (1915-1992) became the first Democratic Senator from New Hampshire in thirty years. He was continuously re-elected to the Senate until his defeat in the 1978 elections. In 1940 McIntyre was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar…
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    Norris Cotton (1900-1989), member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, was born in Warren, NH. Cotton became active in state politics in 1923, as member of the NH House of Representatives. He also served as clerk of the NH Senate (1927-1929), Grafton County Solicitor (1933-1939), and…
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    Graduate of Yale (1785), member of Congress from 1805 to 1819, and political historian. One page letter in which Pitman informs Governor John Treadwell of Connecticut that he accepts his seat in the 12th Congress of the United States.
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    Henry Wilson, author, United States Senator and Vice-President was born in Farmington, NH in 1812. In 1855 he was elected to the United States Senate, and in 1872 he was nominated for Vice-President on the Republican ticket – a position he held until his death in 1875. Wilson devoted his career to…
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    Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was an American lawyer who served in the governments of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, at the dinner given to him by the merchants and other citizens of Philadelphia, December 2, 1846. Published in 1847 in Washington…
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    President Andrew Johnson was impeached by House of Representatives in February 1868. Ticket of admission to the proceedings for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
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    James Duane Squires (1904-1981) was born and educated in North Dakota. In 1933, he received a Ph.D. in European History from Harvard University and he subsequently taught at Colby-Sawyer College, where he later chaired the Department of Social Studies…
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    Collector Eric N. Metcalf (b. 1953) is from south-eastern New Hampshire. The Eric Metcalf Collection on the New Hampshire Primaries contains materials from the 1988 and 1992 Democrat and Republican National Primary Races in the state of New Hampshire. It includes press releases, schedules, campaign…