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Detroit, Michigan trial attorney, Democratic Congressman, 1933-1935, and Wayne County Circuit Court Judge. Correspondence and other materials concerning his term in Congress, national and local politics, and various judicial decisions; miscellaneous diaries, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks concerning his association with the American Turners Association (German-American athletic society), Detroit, Michigan politics, and the election and recall of Detroit Mayor Charles Bowles; and photographs.

The collection consists of correspondence, primarily from the period when Weideman was a member of Congress; files relating to his election campaign and to a few of the issues of the time; and miscellaneous other materials from his career with the Wayne County Circuit Court and as a member of the American Turners. There is also an extensive series of scrapbooks detailing his professional and civic activities and several folders of photographs.

Journalist from Dowagiac, Michigan with interest in sports public relations; general manager of the Detroit Pistons. Resumes, correspondence received in 1952 in response to letter sent to college athletic directors asking the question, "What is the use of athletics for young people?"; scattered correspondence relating to his career with the Detroit Pistons; collected material about family member, Ervin Hurst; and photographs.

The Fred H. DeLano Papers contain a small amount of correspondence and publications on a wide variety of topics. The collection begins with a folder of material on Ervin Hurst, DeLano's uncle, who attended the University of Michigan (class of 1913). This one folder contains newspaper clippings about Hurst's marriage, and a leather-bound graduation program from 1913. The other files relates to Fred DeLano's activities from 1949 to 1987. Included here are copies of his resumes from 1955 to 1982, and correspondence, year books, and publications of the 50th reunions of his high school and college classes. A small portion of the material concerns DeLano's involvement with the Detroit Pistons. One set of correspondence shows the replies of about 50 college athletic directors from around the country to DeLano's question of 1952 about athletic de-emphasis, "What is the use of athletics for young people?" The collection may contain information of interest to those studying DeLano's life, sports writing, or those interested in Dowagiac High School and the University of Michigan Class of 1937.