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Start Over You searched for: Repository University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library ✖ Remove constraint Repository: University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Level Collection ✖ Remove constraint Level: Collection Names Bennett, John B. (John Bonifas), 1905-1964. ✖ Remove constraint Names: Bennett, John B. (John Bonifas), 1905-1964. Places Michigan -- Politics and government -- 1951- ✖ Remove constraint Places: Michigan -- Politics and government -- 1951- Subjects Elections -- Michigan -- 1954. ✖ Remove constraint Subjects: Elections -- Michigan -- 1954.Search Results
2 linear feet — 0.98 GB
The John B. Bennett collection has been arranged into the following series: Correspondence; Election and political materials; Congressional papers; Biographical; Photographs; and Sound recordings.
10 linear feet — 2 oversize volumes — 1 oversize folder
The collection documents the later period of Cleary's life, mainly from 1945 to 1959. The series include Correspondence; Scrapbooks and clippings; Organizational interests; and Political files.
The great bulk of the collection consists of correspondence dated from 1945 to 1959 and documenting his work as Republican State chairman (1949-1953), his tenure as Michigan secretary of state (1953-1954), and his various other civic, political, and business involvements. There is included with this finding aid a selective index to Cleary's correspondents.