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Alvin M. Bentley papers, 1935-1969 (majority within 1950-1968)

104 linear feet — 5 oversize volumes — 1.36 GB (online)

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Republican congressman form Michigan's Eighth District, 1952-1960, candidate for U.S. Senate, 1960; member U.S. Foreign Service, 1942-1950, delegate to 1962 state constitutional convention; University of Michigan regent and philanthropist. Papers include diaries, correspondence photographs and other material his political career and other varied interests.

The Alvin M. Bentley collection includes correspondence, speeches, subject files, and other materials relating to his political career and public service activities. Included are his files while serving as a member of Congress and as a delegate to Michigan's Constitutional Convention in 1961-1962, his campaign files from his race for the U.S. Senate in 1960 and his bid to be elected Congressman-at-large in 1962. Other series in the collection relate to his interest in issues of education, particularly higher education, as reflected in his service on the Citizen's Committee on Higher Education, his campaign for the State Board of Education and his tenure as a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Of value in documenting the various phases of Bentley's career are series of diaries and journals, scrapbooks and clipping files, and photographs.

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Congressional files, 1952-1960

Congressional Files (38 linear ft.; 1952-1960) consists of correspondence with constituents, other concerned citizens, and his colleagues in the House. This series is arranged into four subseries: Yearly Files, Speeches, Post Office Patronage Files, and Miscellaneous. The Yearly Files subseries, maintained each year from 1952 to 1960 by Bentley and his staff, consists of chronologically arranged correspondence, and an alphabetically arranged topical file on matters of legislation, politics, foreign affairs, and other issues of the day.