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319.5 linear feet — 2 oversize volumes — 12.4 GB (online)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, businessman and attorney, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party State Central Committee, U. S. Congressman-at-large, 1963-1964, gubernatorial candidate in 1964, member of the U. S. Federal Election Commission, 1975-1978. Chronological, congressional and topical files relating to political and personal activities; include political files detailing state election campaigns 1948-1964, particularly the campaigns of G. Mennen Williams and John B. Swainson; also photographs and transcript of oral interview, 1979.

Neil Staebler first began donating his files to the Michigan Historical Collections of the University of Michigan in 1961 following his eleven year tenure as chairman of the Democratic Party State Central Committee. Periodically thereafter and continuing into the 1970s, Staebler continued to add to his collection with Congressional papers (1963-1964), campaign files when he ran for governor in 1964, topical records created from his years of service with the Democratic National Committee (see attached vita), and records from his term as commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (1975-1978).

This collection comprised of twelve series documents Staebler's career and the course of Democratic politics since World War II. Since Staebler was principally an organizer of campaigns, a behind-the-scenes manager who preferred to handle the details of an election rather than to step into the candidate's spotlight himself, the collection concerns all phases of a successful campaign not just the posturings of the party's candidates. There is, for example, much information relating to the day-to-day operations of the party, i.e. fund-raising activities, the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, the formulation of the party's platform and related resolutions at the Spring and Fall conventions, and the activities of party-related special interest organizations.

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Political Files, 1950-1975

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Political Files detail Staebler work as chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee (1950-1961) and his work with the Democratic National Committee notably as national committeeman (1961-1964, 1965-1968, and 1972-1975). This series has been subdivided into various subseries. Among these are: Forms (chronologically arranged copies of the materials mailed out of the State Central Committee office); Convention files which concern local, state, and national Democratic Party conventions; Directories and Platform files; State Central Committee files relating to the work and divisions of the state's Democratic organization; Democratic National Committee records; files concerning the relationship between the SCC and state Democratic leaders, primarily G. Mennen Williams, John Swainson, and Senators Hart and McNamara; Calendars/Invitations files; Federal agencies and departments files concerning the relationship of the state party to the federal government; and Miscellaneous files.