NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTION RECORD RG3530.AM: Martin, David Thomas, 1907-1997 Papers: 1959-1975 Kearney, Buffalo County, Neb.: U.S. Representative Size: 206 boxes BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Born July 9, 1907 at Kearney, Nebraska, David Martin attended Kearney public schools and then Dartmouth College where he graduated in 1929. He married Margaret Taylor on June 27, 1931. Martin served as the Republican Chairman for Buffalo County and then as Republican State Chairman before he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3 rd Congressional District in 1960. He continued to win re-election until his retirement in 1974. After leaving Congress, Martin served as a member of the Nebraska State College Board. David T. Martin died in Kearney, Nebraska, on May 15, 1997 at the age of 89. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The collection consists of the legislative papers of David T. Martin. It contains correspondence, departmental files, legislative files, clippings, speeches, committee reports, campaign materials, etc. The first 56 boxes received from Rep. Martin in 1969 are organized into eight series. The remainder of the collection, which was received in 1974-1975, is not organized into series, but a detailed inventory is available. Series I General Correspondence 1961-1965 (Boxes 1-6) Series II Legislative files (Boxes 7-10) Series III Education and Labor Committee (Boxes 11-21) Series IV Bills Introduced by Martin (Boxes 22-23) Series V Third Congressional District (Boxes 23-45) Series VI Department Files (Boxes 46-50) Series VII Newspaper Clippings (Boxes 51-55) Series VIII Miscellany (Box 56) INVENTORY SERIES I – CORRESPONDENCE Box 1 A-D, 1961-1965 Folder 1. Agricultural Bulletins 1965 2. Agricultural Yearbooks 1965 3. Congressional Directory 1965 (Requests) 4. Agriculture – General 1965 RG3530.AM: David Thomas Martin, 1907-1997 5. Agriculture – General 6. Agriculture Bulletins 7. Agric. Yearbooks 1964 Requests 8. Agriculture Yearbooks 9. Alice Baby – Correspondence 1964 10. American Farm Bureau 11. Anonymous, Crank, Incoherent 12. Applications for Employment 13. Atlantic Alliance (General File) 14. Beef Stickers – 1964 (Gen. File 15. Bob Brayton 1965 Corres. 16. Calendar List 1964 17. Civil Defense 18. Congratulations 19. Congressional Directory 20. Congressional Fellowship Program 21. Congressional Record Correspondence 22. Congressional Record – Inserts 23. Anti-Poverty Material File 24. Copies of Ltrs from Bob and Bill 1964 25. Committee of One Million 26. Common Market 27. Conference on World Affairs 28. Contributions – Donations 29. Congressional Record – Corres. 30. Congressional Record Clker (Orders) 31. Cow Belles Project (July 4, ’64) (Mrs. Ida Paxton, Thedford) 32. District of Columbia Committee 33. State of the Nation’s Capital 1961 Box 2 E-L, 1961-1965 Folder 1. Employment – Inquiries 2. 1963 Easter Recess Period 3. Flags 1965 4. Farm Census 1964 5. Employment 6. Flags L964 7. PR – Flags 1963 8. Football Tickets 9. Fort Robinson – Hastings Depot 10. Fort Robinson 11. Fort Robinson – (Water Supply) 12. I 13. Inaugural 1965 2 RG3530.AM: David Thomas Martin, 1907-1997 14. Invitations-Past 1965 15. Invitations 1965 – Regrets 16. 1964 Invitations – Accepted – Past 17. 1965 Issue of the Day 18. Kearney College – Poss. Weather Station 1965 19. 1966 Kearney State College Conf. On World Affairs 20. Kearney State Teachers College Library 21. Labor 22. Lincoln AFB 23. Joint Economic Comm. 24. Library of Congress 25. Libraries – Nebraska Box 3 M-Z, 1961-1965; A-Z, 1965-1966 Folder 1. Division-Ainsworth Merrit Dam 2. PW-Farewell Unit (Middle Loup (Sherman Dam) Completed 3. Memorials 4. Miscellaneous Correspondence 5. Monroe Doctrine 6. Bill Mountford 1965 Corres. 7. Nebr. State Baseball League 8. Nebr. State Historical Society 9. National Commission on Food Marketing 1965 10. Nebraska Meeting 11. Nebraska Reclamation Assn. 12. Nebraska – State of 13. Nebraska State “Kerr-Mills” 14. Norris Home – McCook, Nebr. (Proposed addition to National Park System) 15. Notable Nebraska Museum 16. Nebraska Schools 17. Office Admin – Staff 18. Pages 19. Panama Dispute 20. Photographs 21. Reapportionment, Misc. Info 22. Republican Conference Reports – 1965 23. Soil & Water Conservation-Material 24. Tariff & Trade Study 1964 25. Taxation 26. Year End Report 63-64 27. G/Fluoridation 28. Congratulations 1965 29. G-Congratulations 30. G-Miscellaneous 3 RG3530.AM: David Thomas Martin, 1907-1997 31. G/Members of Congress Correspondence 32. National Council of Churches 1965 33. G-United Nations 34. G – Newspaper Subscriptions 35. G – NFIB Ballots & Correspondence 36. G – Office Memos 37. G – Radio & TV Correspondence 38. G – Radio Broadcast Times 39. G – Thank You 40. G – Nebr. State Government 41. G – Visitors (Past) 42. G – Vietnam 43. G – Newsletter Correspondence Box 4 A-Z, 1962-1966, Get Well & Christmas Folder 1. Clerk of the House 2. OA – Clerk of the House 3. DM Personal - Pipes 4. DM Personal – ILO Trip 5. OA – Office Supplies – Miscellaneous (Manila Envelopes, passes, etc.) 6. 1965 Postage File Records 7. 1965 – Republican Cong. Comm. Account 8. DM Personal – Bank (Sgt at Arms) 9. OA – Staff File 10. Visitors – “Future” (Desk File) 11. Get Well Wishes --- Feb 1966 Illness 12. A 13. B 14. 1963 Xmas Cards Rec’d 15. Christmas Card – 1964 & 1966 16. C 17. DM for Alpha Chi Rho (1965) 18. Dartmouth Horizons 19. Donations 20. D 21. Dartmouth College 22. DM Personal – Fish for Pond (Application, info) 23. E 24. PA-Expenses: DM Campaign 25. 89 th Congress – Committee on Committees 26. DM Personal – Contributions 1965 27. Fitch, Gen. Alva – Dm Pers 28. Ford, Gerald R. – Minority 1965 (DM Personal File) 29. DM Pers – Nov ’63 Gooselore Lodge Hunting T rip 4 RG3530.AM: David Thomas Martin, 1907-1997 30. G 31. I 32. Inter-Parliamentary Union – 1965 33. J 34. Jackie Smallwood – Maid 35. K 36. L 37. DM Pers – Robert F. Martin 1/Lt – Army 38. M 39. N 40. O 41. DM Personal – Taxes 42. R 43. 89 th Congress – Republican. Mtgs., etc. 44. S 45. T 46. Traffic Light 47. U 48. Verdier, James M. 49. 1962 – DM Pers – Vacation Trip 50. W 51. DM Personal – 1965 Hunting Trip 52. H 53. P 54. Cards and Correspondence Box 5 Christmas Cards, 1966 Box 6 Christmas Cards, 1966 and 1968 SERIES II – LEGISLATIVE FILES Box 7 A-E Folder 1. Agriculture Wheat Letters 2. Agriculture – REA 3. Agriculture-1965-66 4. Agriculture Food for Peace 5. Agriculture: Wheat: Information-1965 6. Agriculture: Wheat-1965 7. Appropriations-1965 8. Armed Services-1965 9. Banking & Currency-1965 10. Banking & Currency Information 1965 11. Budget 1965 5 RG3530.AM: David Thomas Martin, 1907-1997 12. District of Columbia Comm. 13. Post Office and Civil Service – 1965 14. General 15. Judiciary “Voting Rights Bill” 16. Urban Affairs Box 8 G-J Folder 1. General-1965 2. House Administration-1965 3. Government Operations-1965 4. Foreign Affairs-1965 5. Interstate & Foreign Commerce-1965 6. Interior & Insular Affairs-1965 7. Judiciary 1966 8. Judiciary 1965 Box 9 J-W Folder 1. Judiciary-Information 1965 2. P.O. & C.S. 1966 3. Public Works-1965 4. Veterans’ Affairs-1965 5. Ways & Means-1965-66 6. Ways & Means-Information: 1965 7. W&M Info on Eldercare-Medicare 8. Ways & Means: Social Security 1965 9. Ways & Means: Social Security Information 1965 10. W&M Truck Taxes 11. Ways & Means Medicare Information: 1965 12. Ways & Means: Taxes-1965 13. Ways & Means – Excise Tax 14. Ways & Means – Income 15. Ways & Means H.R. 8282 16. Ways & Means: Medicare-1965 17. Ways & Means – Excise Taxes 18. Ways & Means Firearms 19. Eldercare Form Letter Replies Box 10 A-Z, 1967-1968; McGinley Bills, 1959-1960 Folder 1. H.Con.Res. 69 – Food For Peace – McGinley Bills 2. McGinley Bills HR 7664 6 RG3530.AM: David Thomas Martin, 1907-1997 3. McGinley Bills 86 th Congress 4. House of Representatives 5. McGinley Bills – HR 11018 6. McGinley Bills HR 5061 7. HR 10857 McGinley Bills SERIES III – EDUCATION & LABOR COMMITTEE Box 11 1961-1962 Folder 1. Agriculture – Labor (Farm Bureau, 1962) 2. Davis-Bacon Legislation 3. Equal pay Legislation 4. Adult Basic Education Act 5. Fair Labor Standards Amendment 6. Labor – FLSA Regulation for Full Time Students Box 12 1961-1963 Folder 1. “Operation Survival” (Education) 2. Education Legislation 3. Minimum Wage Correspondence 4. Census Nebr. 5. Migratory Labor 6. Mr. Martin 7. “N” E&L Comm. 8. Minimum Wage – Gen 9. E&L Minimum Wage Regns 10. NLRB (Nat’l Labor Reins Board) 11. Nat’l Defense Educ. Act Box 13 1963 Folder 1. Minimum Wage 2. NLRB 3. National Defense Education Act 4. 88 th Congress Omnibus Education Bill 5. National Educational Improvement Act 6. NEA Bulletins 7. Joint Industry Promotion 8. E&L Youth – Juvenile Delinquency 9. Amendments to Education Bills (Racial Discrimination) 10. Impacted School Areas 7 RG3530.AM: David Thomas Martin, 1907-1997 11. Impacted Areas – Research 12. Labor Management “Bonding” 13. “Aging” Legislation Box 14 1963 Folder 1. Longshoremen Legislative Data 2. Manpower Training & Utilization Act 3. Higher Education Act 4. Library Services Act 5. Hoffa and Unions 6. Hoffa Bond Issue 7. Equal Pay Act 8. Domestic Peace Corps 9. Coal Mine Safety 10. “Exceptional children – Training of Teachers” 11. Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act Box 15 1963 Folder 1. Migratory Labor 2. Vocational Ed. Act 3. Education & Labor Committee – Misc. 4. June 1963 Trip to Kansas & So. Dakota 5. Davis-Bacon Material 6. Green’s subcommittee Reports, 1963 7. Education-The Root of Opposition Box 16 1964 Folder 1. Hoffa Unions-Cozad 2. Fair Labor Standards Act and Related Files 3. FLSA Extension Hearings Box 17 1964 Folder 1. HR 1267 Workers Comp – Legis 2. HR 9802 3. Poverty Program 4. Poverty Program Correspondence 5. Rep. Phil Weaver 6. Poverty Program-Committee Menus, Reports, etc.