http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 XTF Search Results (freeformQuery=women's history;smode=advanced;f1-subject=Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.) http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dwomen's%20history;smode%3Dadvanced;f1-subject%3DCleveland%20(Ohio)%20--%20Politics%20and%20government. Results for your query: freeformQuery=women's history;smode=advanced;f1-subject=Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT Albina Rose Cermak Papers. Cermak, Albina Rose http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3975.xml Albina Cermak was active in Republican Party politics. She was vice-chairman and secretary of the Cuyahoga County Republican Central and Executive Committees, chairman of the Republican Women's Organization of Cuyahoga County, member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, a Cleveland precinct committeewoman, and a member of the Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Clubs. She was a United States Customs Collector before running unsuccessfully for Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, state senator and Clerk of the Cleveland Municipal Court. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, minutes, rosters, reports and printed matter, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, appointment books and personal correspondence. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3975.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Ameritrust Corporation Records. Ameritrust Corporation http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4750.xml Ameritrust Corporation began in 1894 when The Cleveland Trust Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Trust then assumed the contracts of the Security Safe Deposit and Trust Company, also located in Cleveland, Ohio. Beginning in 1903, Cleveland Trust acquired or merged with several other savings banks, including The Windemere Savings and Trust Company and The Western Reserve Trust Company. Cleveland Trust promoted innovative operating policies and procedures, including the establishment of an advertising department in 1913. It increased its number of branch offices through additional mergers, including Lake Shore Banking and Trust Company and The Garfield Savings Bank. Growth continued during the 1920s with the acquisition of the Pearl Street Savings and Trust Company. Two more banks were acquired in the 1930s; Midland Bank and South Euclid Bank. A new six story office building at East 9th Street and Huron Road was constructed in 1962. An adjacent office tower was completed in 1971. In 1974, CleveTr... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4750.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Carl Stokes Papers. Stokes, Carl http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4370.xml Carl Stokes (1927-1996) was the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1967-1971. Stokes was the first African American mayor of a major American city and the first African American Democrat in the Ohio State Legislature, where he served three terms from 1962-1967. As mayor, Stokes launched a number of programs to alleviate the problems of urban decay. Chief among these was Cleveland: NOW!, a joint public and private program with plans to raise $177 million in its first two years to revitalize Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout in July, 1968. Under Stokes, Cleveland City Council passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Ordinance, and HUD resumed funding projects aiding in the construction of over 3,000 new low- and middle-income housing units. Stokes became a newscaster with NBC television in 1972, and returned to his law practice in Cleveland in 1980. In 1983, Stokes was elected a municipal court judge. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and ne... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4370.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT City Club of Cleveland Records. City Club of Cleveland http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3517.xml The City Club of Cleveland is a men's club formed in 1912 to provide a platform for the discussion of issues of contemporary interest in Cleveland, Ohio. Women were admitted in 1972. A number of noted individuals have addressed the Club's forum. The collection consists of constitutions, articles of incorporation, minutes, correspondence, addresses, opinion polls, financial records, publications, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3517.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Daniel Edgar Morgan Papers. Morgan, Daniel Edgar http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3069.xml Daniel Edgar Morgan (1877-1949) was an Ohio State senator (1929-30), Cleveland city manager (1930-32), politician, and jurist. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, legal papers and documents, reports and memoranda on civic, municipal, and national affairs, scrapbooks of clippings, pamphlets, and other material on social and international questions, the Republican Party in Cleveland and Ohio, Morgan's interest in civic organizations, his term in the Ohio State Senate, the city managership of Cleveland, political campaigns for himself and Harold H. Burton, his law practice and activities in wartime agencies, and his service on the Ohio Court of Appeals. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3069.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT Daniel Edgar Morgan Papers, Series II. Morgan, Daniel Edgar http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3676.xml Daniel Edgar Morgan (1877-1949) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and politician who served as a city councilman, Ohio state senator (1928-1930), Cleveland City Manager (1930-1931), and judge of the Eighth District Court of Appeals (1939-1949). The collection consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, proposals, publications and newspaper clippings relating to Morgan's tenure as Cleveland City Manager. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3676.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Daniel J. Marschall Papers. Marschall, Daniel J. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4561.xml Daniel J. Marschall was a journalist who specialized in labor and energy issues for the city of Cleveland, Ohio's Division of Economic Development during the Dennis Kucinich administration, 1978-1979. In 1979, he edited the report entitled "The Battle of Cleveland: Public Interest Challenges Corporate Power", which examined the confrontations between Kucinich and the corporate establishment during his administration. The collection consists of reports from various government and public agencies and corporations on Cleveland's economic situation and history, news releases, speeches, editorials, clippings, articles, interviews, theses, and reports collected by Marschall on economic development, default, mayoral recall, municipal light plant, tax abatement, and Dennis Kucinich's career and campaigns, as well as material generated by the Mayor's office including new releases, speeches, reports, and campaign literature, and criticism and commentary from the media. The sources used to compile the report "The Battl... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4561.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Donald McBride Family Papers. McBride, Donald Family http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4585.xml Donald McBride was a lawyer and businessman and son of John Harris McBride, owner of Root & McBride Company, a leading wholesale dry goods establishment in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald's brothers, Malcolm and Herbert, were officers in Root & McBride Company. His sister Grace was married to Dr. George Crile, and his sister Edith was married to Henry S. Sherman, chairman of Society for Savings, 1903-1936. Donald's wife, Mary Helen Harman McBride, was daughter of industrialist Ralph A. Harman, who ran Cleveland Forge and Iron Company, was a founder of Cleveland Trust Company, and a director of Cleveland Electric Railway Company. Mary Helen's sister Grace was married to Samuel Livingston Mather, and her sister Sue was married to diplomat John Pelenyi. Her great aunt, Grace Harman Wade, was married to Jeptha H. Wade. The collection consists of Harman and McBride family correspondence, genealogies, coats of arms, reminiscences, memorials, school reports, scrapbooks, ledgers, journals, diaries, newspaper clippings, obit... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4585.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Fannie M. Lewis Papers. Lewis, Fannie M. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4341.xml Fannie M. Lewis (1926-2008) was an African American activist and Cleveland, Ohio, councilwoman. She was involved in a number of Hough neighborhood improvement programs, including Community Action for Youth, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Model Cities Association, and the Citizen's Participation Organization. She became a city councilwoman from Cleveland's Ward 7 in 1982. The collection consists of personal papers and the records and subject files relating to Lewis' work with the Model Cities Association, Neighborhood Youth Corps, and other community organizations. Included are articles of incorporation, bylaws, trustee minutes, monthly reports, financial records, proposals, correspondence, memoranda, residency lists, posters, and newspaper clippings. The collection is useful to the study of Cleveland community development programs and Fanny Lewis' efforts with these programs. Some materials relate to racism, politics, and local government in Cleveland during the 1960s and 1970s. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4341.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Grace Doering and John W. "Jack" McCord Papers. Doering, Grace and McCord, John W. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3959.xml Grace Doering McCord (1890-1983)was a Cleveland, Ohio-born teacher, journalist, lawyer, and law professor who became Assistant Director of Law for the City of Cleveland. She was active in many legal, business, and women's organizations. In 1957 she married John W. McCord (1883-1967), an Iowa native who moved to Alaska and spent his life prospecting for gold, speculating in oil, exploring for the Army Air Force, running a ranch and lobbying for Alaskan interests in Washington, D.C. The collection consists of personal correspondence, biographical materials, class notes, newspaper clippings, papers from Mrs. McCord's tenure as Assistant Director of Law for the city of Cleveland, minutes, correspondence and reports from many of Mrs. McCord's professional organizations, and a copy of McCord of Alaska by Jack Long. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3959.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Grace Doering and John W. "Jack" McCord Papers, Series II. McCord, Grace Doering and John W. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4119.xml Grace Doering McCord (1890-1983) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney who served as Assistant City Law Director, 1935-1942. Her husband, John W. (Jack) McCord (1883-1967) was involved in the exploration and development of the Alaskan frontier and was instrumental in the move for Alaskan statehood. The collection consists of correspondence, biographical materials, speeches, writings, legal materials, and reminiscences. The collection mainly relates to Grace McCord's early law career and tenure as Cleveland's Assistant Law Director, as well as Jack McCord's involvement in the development of the Alaskan frontier. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4119.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Harold H. Burton Papers. Burton, Harold H. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3584.xml Harold Hitz Buron (1888-1964) was a lawyer, World War I soldier, law professor, Ohio state congressman, law director of Cleveland, Acting City Manager, Acting Mayor, Mayor, United States Senator from Ohio, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, campaign literature, broadsides, reports, schedules, inventories, lists and newspaper clippings relating to Burton's personal life, his activities in various organizations, and his political activities, including his administration of Cleveland's municipal government, 1935-1940. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3584.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Harold H. Burton-Edward Blythin Papers. Burton, Harold H. and Blythin, Edward http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3828.xml Harold H. Burton (1888-1964) was mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1935-1940). When he was elected to the United States Senate in 1940 he chose Edward Blythin (1884-1958) to fill the remainder of his last term as mayor (1941). The collection consists of office files of the mayor of Cleveland containing correspondence, reports, speeches, proclamations, and newspaper clippings, relating to routine administrative matters and topics of special interest. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3828.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT James K. Miller Papers. Miller, James K. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4588.xml James K. Miller was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1946. In 1968, he received a bachelor's degree form Occidental College. Refusing to serve in the Vietnam conflict, Miller performed service as a conscientious objector from 1980-1972 at University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1992, he was a probation officer for the Cleveland Heights Municipal Court. Miller has been active in many socialist and political organizations since the late 1960s. He traveled to countries in Asia; including China, North Vietnam, and Laos; and to Nicaragua. The collection consists of personal correspondence, organizational correspondence, memoranda, flyers, position papers, newsletters, books, pamphlets, and magazines. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4588.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Lake Erie Regional Transportation Authority Records. Lake Erie Regional Transportation Authority http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4497.xml The Lake Erie Regional Transportation Authority was created by the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Board of Commissioners in 1972 to study the need, feasibility, and location for a new international airport for the Cleveland service area. Urged on by the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, LERTA proposed the construction of a 13-mile stone-and-sand dike in Lake Erie as the site for the new airport. Despite an extensive public relations campaign, public opposition to the project was immediate and continuous. In 1977, the FAA determined that Cleveland did not need a new airport and in 1978 discontinued its support for the jetport-in-the-lake project. The collection consists of administrative records (i.e. LERTA formation and dissolution records, minutes of the Board of Trustees, initial planning grant proposals, citizen participation records, intergovernmental and departmental relations activity, etc.), consultant selection records, airport feasibility studies, and publicity and public relations records. The colle... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4497.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT League of Women Voters of Cleveland Records. League of Women Voters of Cleveland http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3565.xml The League of Women Voters of Cleveland was formed in 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, by former suffragists and members of the Woman's Suffrage Party. The League is nonpartisan and has endorsed various legislation, including laws to protect female workers and improve child welfare and education. Its efforts include voter registration drives, assistance to election boards, demonstrations of registration and voting techniques, as well as sponsoring candidates debates. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, membership records, committee reports and recommendations, publications, scrapbooks, and materials on the history of the women's suffrage movement, including convention minutes of the Woman Suffrage Party. (1918-1919). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3565.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT League of Women Voters of Cleveland Records, Series II. League of Women Voters of Cleveland http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4211.xml The League of Women Voters was formed in 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, by former suffragists and members of the Woman's Suffrage Party. The League is nonpartisan and has endorsed various legislation, including laws to protect female workers and improve child welfare and education. Its efforts include voter registration drives, assistance to election boards, demonstrations of registration and voting techniques, as well as sponsoring candidates debates. The collection consists of annual reports, correspondence, and subject files relating to the group's activities. This collection pertains to the activities and concerns of the women involved in the league, including the Ohio Constitution, public welfare, civil service, voter registration, and food inspection. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4211.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT League of Women Voters of Cuyahoga County Records. League of Women Voters of Cuyahoga County http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4258.xml The League of Women Voters of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, is a coalition of the various community Leagues within the county, designed to promote responsibility through informed and active citizen participation in government. The collection consists of bylaws, minutes, reports, correspondence, programs and subject files relating to its activities. The collection pertains to the activities and concerns of the League, including fund raising, the structures of government, the proposed Cleveland Public Library-Cuyahoga County Library merger, transportation, urban problems, voter services, and water resources. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4258.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Marie Remington Wing Papers. Wiing, Marie Remington http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3404.xml Marie Remington Wing (1885-1982) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer who served on city council (1923-1927), as Solicitor for the Village of Mentor (1929-1936), and as Regional Attorney for the Social Security Board (1936-1953). She was also involved in numerous professional, civic, and health organizations in Cleveland and in Mentor. The collection consists of writings, correspondence, family history materials, memorabilia, financial accounts, city council campaign materials, and papers from Wing's professional, civic, and health organizations. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3404.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Maurice Klain Research Papers : Cleveland Area Leadership Studies, Series I. Klain, Maurice http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4219.xml The Cleveland Area Leadership Studies were produced by Dr. Klain, a political scientist at Western Reserve University (Case Western Reserve University since 1967), as a scholarly project to identify, describe and analyze leadership, decision-making, influence and power in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. The people interviewed were eminent figures in the business and professional life of Cleveland, prominent in government, law and politics, education, journalism, religion, philanthropy, non-governmental civic institutions, ethnic communities and social activism. The collection is therefore critical to the study of Cleveland in the 1960s. Because the collection was produced on the eve of the racial conflicts which shook the U.S. in the 1960s and which erupted in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood during 1966, Klain has characterized such interviews as "conversations on a powderkeg." The collection is comprised of the second drafts of the interview transcripts. The Klain research papers const... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4219.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Maurice Klain Research Papers : Cleveland Area Leadership Studies, Series II. Klain, Maurice http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4305.xml The Cleveland Area Leadership Study was a major research project designed to study the power base of greater Cleveland, Ohio, with emphasis on the decision-making process and the role of various community leaders. The project was supervised by Maurice Klain, professor in the Department of Political Science at Western Reserve University. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, a subject file, questionnaires, raw data from Klain's studies on endorsements and voter tabulations, interpretative computer printouts, and newspaper clippings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4305.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT MS 5433 George Forbes Papers, Series II. George Forbes http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5433.xml George L. Forbes (b. 1931) was arguably the most powerful man in Cleveland politics during the 1970s and 1980s. His position as the President of Cleveland City Council from 1974-1989 was crucial in the relationships he formed with mayors Dennis Kucinich and George Voinovich which were sometimes contentious. He also used this prominent position to promote civil rights and minority-owned businesses. Forbes was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1931, coming to the Cleveland area in the 1950s to earn his degrees from Baldwin Wallace College in 1957 and the Cleveland Marshall College of Law in 1961. A lawyer by profession, Forbes was admitted to both the Ohio and Federal Bars in 1962. In 1963 he was elected to Cleveland City Council, where he served for 27 years. He assisted Carl B. Stokes in his mayoral runs, helped to establish the 21st District Congressional Caucus to improve race relations within the Democratic party, and formed the first African-American law firm in Cleveland. He was also involved in a ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5433.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT Ralph J. Perk Papers. Perk, Ralph J. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4456.xml Ralph J. Perk was the Cuyahoga County, Ohio auditor, 1963-1971, and mayor of Cleveland, 1972-1977. Perk, the first Republican mayor since 1941, faced big budget deficits which he covered with existing bond funds and general revenue sharing funds, as well as large federal grants from the Nixon administration. Nevertheless, city sewer and public transit systems had to be regionalized to raise operating capital. A Czech-American, Perk was seen as a national leader on ethnic issues. He retired from politics in 1977 after an unsuccessful campaign against John Glenn for the United States Senate in 1974 and a defeat in the 1977 nonpartisan mayoral primary. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, financial records, reports, speeches, minutes, news releases, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, invitations, certificates, etc., pertaining to Perk's political career and public service. Mayoral records include voluminous correspondence and a subject file, as well as the records of various secretaries a... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4456.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Ray Thomas Miller Papers, Series II. Miller, Ray Thomas http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3739.xml Ray Thomas Miller (1893-1966) was a prominent lawyer, businessman and Democratic political leader in Cleveland, Ohio, who served as assistant law director (1922-1923), city prosecutor (1928), and Mayor (1932-1935). A major accomplishment of his administration was the relief of the city's homeless and unemployed through the acquisition of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds and the establishment of such programs as the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, the Wayfarer's Lodge, and municipal kitchens. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, legal documents, ordinances, resolutions, newspaper clippings, and proclamations. The majority of the material consists of departmental files containing constituent and interoffice correspondence, resolutions, and resignations. Major topics include welfare programs and Communist political activity. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3739.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Seth and Frances Taft Papers. Taft, Seth and Frances http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5127.xml Seth Chase Taft (December 31, 1922-April 14, 2013) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Charles P. and Eleanor Chase Taft. He is the grandson of American president William Howard Taft. He married Frances Prindle (December 12, 1921-May 14, 2017) on June 19, 1943 and they had four children: Frederick I. (Rick) (b. June 26, 1945), Thomas P. (b. July 19, 1948), Cynthia B. (b. May 24, 1950), and Seth Tucker (Tucker) (b. March 4, 1953). They were active members of the greater Cleveland, Ohio, cultural, civic, and political community. The collection consists of 31 scrapbooks which include agendas, birth announcements, birthday cards, brochures, building permits, campaign literature, certificates, children's artwork and letters, Christmas cards and newsletters, contracts, correspondence, currency, flyers, greeting cards, interviews, invitations, itineraries, journal articles, lecture paperwork, legal briefs, licenses, lists, magazine articles, maps, memoranda, menus, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5127.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT Stokes Oral History Collection. Cuyahoga Community College, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland State University http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5416.xml Carl Stokes, and his brother Louis, were groundbreaking African-American politicians from Cleveland, Ohio. Carl Stokes became the first black mayor of a major U.S. city when elected in 1967. Louis Stokes was the first African-American congressman from Ohio when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, a position he held for 15 consecutive terms. During Carl Stokes' two mayoral terms, city hall jobs were opened to blacks and women, and a number of urban renewal projects initiated. Between 1983 and 1994 Carl Stokes served as municipal judge, and in 1994 was appointed by President Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Seychelles. Louis Stokes began his career as a civil rights attorney and helped challenge the Ohio redistricting in 1965 that fragmented African-American voting strength. In 1967, Louis Stokes argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Terry v. Ohio case, also known as the "stop-and-frisk" case. In the 1970s, Louis Stokes served as chair of the House Select Committe... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5416.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT Thomas F. Campbell Papers. Campbell, Thomas F. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4925.xml Thomas Campbell was an author, community leader, and professor and university administrator who co-founded the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and served as its director. Campbell served as president of the City Club of Cleveland, and was instrumental in opening its doors to women. He directed the Cleveland Heritage Program for Cleveland Public Library. He ran for mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977. He founded the Irish American Archives Society and was deeply involved in the Irish American community of Cleveland, as well as numerous other groups in the Cleveland, Ohio area. The collection consists of agendas, awards, biographical data, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, examination papers, flyers, invitations, magazine articles, memberships, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, plays, poems, programs, recipes, reports, resumes, speeches, workshops and writings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4925.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT Thomas Vail Papers. Vail, Thomas http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4852.xml Thomas Vail, son of attorney Herman L. Vail and Delia B. White, both members of prominent Cleveland families, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1926. Vail was educated at University School in Cleveland and Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton University in 1948. He joined his family business, the Forest City Publishing Company, and later transferred to its morning paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In 1963, Vail assumed duties as publisher and editor of the Plain Dealer. For over twenty five years, Vail oversaw the transition of the Plain Dealer from the city's runner up publication to the largest daily and Sunday newspaper in Ohio. Vail retired from the paper in 1992. Vail was also active in other interests such as the Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and was the co-founder of Cleveland Tomorrow, an organization formed in 1982 to promote economic growth. He was also president of the Cleveland Convention and active in the Visitor's Bureau and the Greater Cl... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4852.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT Women's City Club of Cleveland Records. Women's City Club of Cleveland http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3535.xml The Women's City Club is a women's forum for the discussion of topics of civic and public interest. It was founded in 1916, by Cleveland, Ohio, suffragettes and society leaders, in response to the establishment of an all-male City Club in 1912. The collection consists of minute books, histories, committee files, publications, clippings and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3535.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT