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Hugh B. Mitchell Papers, 1937-1967 Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1937-1967 Overview of the Collection Creator Mitchell, Hugh B. (Hugh Burnton), 1907-1996 Title Hugh B. Mitchell papers Dates 1937-1967 1937 1967 Quantity 73.16 cubic feet (141 boxes, 1 folder) 8 microfilm reels Collection Number 0281, 0818, 0927, 1407 Summary Papers of a democratic United States Senator and Representative, civic leader, and businessman in Washington state. Repository University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Special Collections University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 Telephone: 206-543-1929 Fax: 206-543-1931 [email protected] Access Restrictions Open to all users. Some material stored offsite; advance notice required for use. Languages English Sponsor Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Biographical Note Hugh Burton Mitchell was a liberal Democrat who represented Washington state in the United States Senate and House of Representatives during the 1940s and 1950s. His Congressional career was intermittent due to election defeats, but during these decades when he was not in Congress he stayed involved in public policy through lobbying, economic research, and public relations. Mitchell spent much of his time, both in Congress and independently, campaigning for a federal Columbia Valley Authority to manage hydroelectric power, and was heavily involved in other Pacific Northwest development issues. Mitchell was born in 1907 in Great Falls, Montana, where he grew up, then attended Dartmouth College from 1926 to 1929. After graduation, Mitchell worked as a reporter, first for the Great Falls Ledger, then for the Everett News in 1931. Mitchell’s Congressional career began in 1933 when he became the executive assistant to Representative Monrad C. Wallgren, whom he stayed with until 1944 when Wallgren became Governor of Washington. When Wallgren resigned from the Senate in January of 1945, Mitchell was appointed to take his place and served for two years, but lost in his 1946 Democratic campaign to retain his seat. As a Senator, Mitchell was involved in legislative attempts to ease the transition to a peacetime economy, and introduced legislation to create a Columbia Valley Authority, modeled on the New Deal’s Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1937-1967 1 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06173 Tennessee Valley Authority, that would build a series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River to produce public power. Mitchell’s desire to develop public, rather than private power also manifested itself in his campaign to develop hydroelectric facilities at Hell’s Canyon. Here he pushed for a higher, public dam instead of smaller, private dams. To fund public investment, he advocated a graduated net income tax at State Development. During his Senate tenure, Mitchell served on the following committees: Interstate Commerce, Banking and Currency, National Defense, Investigating, and Mines and Mining. After losing his Senate election, Mitchell organized the League for Columbia Valley Authority and served as its president, conducting economic research and public relations. During the period from 1947 to 1948 while he served the League, Mitchell also founded Hugh B. Mitchell, Inc., Northwest Development Counsel, which was an industrial development and political consulting firm. In 1948, Mitchell re-entered Congress when Washington’s first Congressional district (which at the time included most of Kitsap and King counties, including Seattle) elected him to the House of Representatives, then re-elected him in 1950. In the House Mitchell became known as a prolific bill writer, and in 1948, 1949, and 1950 campaigned for a Marshall Plan for Asia. Liberty Magazine cited him as one of its “Ten Honest Politicians” from the 82nd Congress. In the House he was a member of the Rules, Banking and Currency, and Labor and Education committees. In 1952, Mitchell campaigned unsuccessfully for governor, then lost Congressional races in 1954 and 1958. Smear attacks on Mitchell during the McCarthy era began in 1950 when during the primary campaign a Seattle city council member suggested he was a Communist. His opponent in the 1952 gubernatorial election, Arthur Langlie, also leveled the same charge in what many observers called a dirty campaign. After his Congressional election loss in 1954 which featured more campaign smear tactics, Mitchell sued his opponent, Tom Pelly, for conspiracy to libel. The two settled out of court for $7,500 in what Mitchell called a “moral victory.” In 1953, after losing his campaign for governor, Mitchell began working for Alaska Van and Storage Company, which was affiliated with Martin Van Lines of Seattle. He also served as a director of two Seattle manufacturing companies, and was the director of the Hell’s Canyon Association. He died in 1996 at the age of 89. Content Description Legislative files, correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, case files, resolutions, statements, an audiotaped interview, news releases, ephemera, newsletters, campaign files, clippings, and photographs relating to Mitchell's political career, 1937-1958; also includes records of the League for Columbia Valley Authority, 1945-1946. Major correspondents include Monrad C. Wallgren, Warren G. Magnuson, Kaiser (Henry J.) Company, John Main Coffee, Hugh DeLacy, Henry M. Jackson, Herbert Peet, and Charles Savage. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries. Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1937-1967 2 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06173 Administrative Information Arrangement Arranged in 5 accessions: Accession No. 0281-001, Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1945-1952 Accession No. 0281-002, Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1937-1958 Accession No. 0818-001, Hugh B. Mitchell interview, 1967 Accession No. 0927-001, Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1940-1954 Accession No. 1407-001, Hugh B. Mitchell selected papers on microfilm, 1945-1952 Detailed Description of the Collection Accession No. 0281-001: Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1945-1952 51 cubic feet (117 boxes) Arrangement: Arranged in 2 series: Subject files Columbia Valley Administration records The original order of the subject files has been maintained, except that the materials concerning the Columbia Valley Administration (proposed) and the League for Columbia Valley Administration, which Mitchell was instrumental in organizing, and which he served in the capacity of president, were extracted from the main body of papers and reorganized into a separate series. Scope and Content: Most of this accession is about Mitchell’s involvement with major national and Pacific Northwest issues from 1945 to 1952, including public housing, public power, federal aid to education, loyalty investigations, price controls, fisheries, lumber trade, Democratic Party functions, economic problems of Alaska, Americans for Democratic Action, Public Utility Districts, hydroelectric resource development, Communist infiltration of trade unions, civil rights, and others. Restrictions on Access: Open to all users. Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use. Acquisition Info: Gift of Mr. Mitchell, December 3, 1962. Processing Info: Processed in 1985. Processing Info: Photographs were relocated to the Portrait Collection, PH Coll. 563, Special Collections, in 1973. Container(s) Description Dates Subject Files Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1937-1967 3 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06173 Container(s) Description Dates Scope and Content: "Correspondence" usually indicates correspondence from constituents rather than correspondence with the agency concerned. Box/ Accession Folder 1/1 0281-001 Army - Army Service Forces 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence about complaints, claims, etc. 1/2 0281-001 Army - Food 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence about food for Europe 1/4 0281-001 Army - Officers vs. enlisted men 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence 1/5 a-b 0281-001 Army - Retirement 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence about benefits, claims, etc. 1/6 0281-001 Army - Rotation 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence about overseas duty tours, etc. 1/7 0281-001 Army - ROTC 1945 Scope and Content: Correspondence 1/8 0281-001 Army - War Department - Supersonic Lab 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence about developmental lab at Moses Lab, resolution from Columbia Basin Commission (Stuart Symington). 1/9 0281-001 Army - WAC 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence, complaints 1/10 0281-001 Army - Vancouver Barracks Post Cemetery 1946 Scope and Content: Correspondence 1/11 0281-001 Army Engineers 1945 Scope and Content: Correspondence about appropriations for highways, bridges, etc. 1/3a-c 0281-001 Army - Married men & fathers 1945 Hugh B. Mitchell papers, 1937-1967 4 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv06173 Container(s) Description Dates Scope and Content: Correspondence about release from occupation duty 1/13a- 0281-001 Army - Courts Martial (R. T. Hanson) 1945 b Scope and Content: Correspondence about religious Commanding Officer 1/12a- 0281-001 Army - Discharges 1945-1946 k Scope and Content: Correspondence about discharges of: Peter C. Best, Harold Brown, M. L. Dumochel, Ernie Endress, A. Ferguson, Everett Flood, Frank Foley, Henry P. Gai, Phil Gallagher, C. E. Guernsey 2/1a-b, 0281-001 Army - Courts Martial (R. T. Hanson) 1945 2/2a-b Scope and Content: Correspondence about religious Commanding Officer 2/3 0281-001 Army - Surgeon General-Robert
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