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John D. Dingell, Jr. papers, 1922-2017 (majority within 1955-2014)

511 linear feet (in 511 boxes) — 136.4 GB (online) — 2 oversize items (framed)

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John Dingell, Jr. was Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan and longest-serving member in congressional history, 1955-2015. Dingell was the son of John Dingell, Sr. (Democratic congressman from Michigan's 15th district, 1933-1955), and husband of Debbie Dingell, who succeeded him as Representative of Michigan's 12th district in 2015. The collection documents John Dingell, Jr.'s election campaigns and his 59-year tenure in Congress. Records include legislative files, correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, press clippings, photographs, and audiovisual materials.

The collection documents John D. Dingell, Jr.'s political career including his 59 years in the United States House of Representatives (1955-2015). The papers include campaign materials documenting Dingell's 29 elections, Democratic National Committee and Michigan Democratic Party materials, and redistricting in Michigan.

The bulk of the papers document Dingell's tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives including legislative files on topics such as civil rights, healthcare, insurance, Social Security, Medicare, environmental issues, endangered species, the auto industry, agriculture, taxes, and trade; administrative office files including correspondence, schedules, voting records, and legislative planning; and photographs, press clippings, scrapbooks, and speeches.

The collection includes born-digital records, as well as 254 pieces of audiovisual material, described in the Container Listing at the item level. Dingell's member website, campaign website, as well as his personal Twitter account are cataloged separately.

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Politics and Campaigns, 1955-2012

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The Politics and Campaigns series is organized into four subseries: Campaigns and Elections, State and National Democratic Party Materials, Press, and Redistricting.

Materials are organized chronologically and documents John Dingell, Jr.'s 29 national political campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives and his work related to the state and national Democratic Party. Campaign files include correspondence, constituent research, candidate research, certificates of election, news clippings, press releases, financial records, questionnaires, speeches, photographs, and Dingell's YouTube channel videos.

Materials documenting Dingell's involvement with the Democratic National Committee and Michigan Democratic Party include meeting materials, party platforms, committee assignments, party organizational documents, and news article. Redistricting materials include court proceedings, hearing materials, legal and strategic plans, background research, delegation meetings, news clippings, and correspondence.

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Congressional Papers, 1950-2017

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This Congressional Papers series is organized chronologically by congressional term. Terms are further organized by sub-subseries and include: Administrative and office files, Legislative, Legislative-personal, Press, Photographs, Speeches, and Travel and events. Not all sub-subseries are present in each congressional term. This arrangement reflects the original filing system of Dingell's office. The primary distinction between Legislative and Legislative-personal is that the latter identifies legislation Dingell sponsored, co-sponsored, or was heavily involved in drafting.

The Congressional Papers series comprises the bulk of the collection and documents John Dingell's 59-year career in Congress. Materials document Dingell's leadership roles including Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce (formerly Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee), Dean of the House (1995-2015), service on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and the Small Business Committee (formerly Select Committee on Small Business). Materials include correspondence with colleagues, schedules, reports, legislative accomplishments, honors and awards, biographical materials, call logs, voting records, speeches, floor statements, writings, files of various state and national trips and events, press clippings, press releases, 110 scrapbooks, 27 magnetic data tape reels, and Dingell's member website and Twitter account.

John Dingell, Jr. is the longest-serving member of Congress (1955-2015). As such, his papers cover major political, social, industrial, and technological movements and events of the 20th century including the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the Great Society including the passage of Medicare and creation of Social Security, major environmental legislation such as the passage of the Water Pollution Control Act, National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and other legislative achievements Dingell was involved in such as the Endangered Species Act, Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), among many others.

The bulk of John Dingell's committee files are restricted in accordance with federal statute (Boxes 307-308, 452-496). Restrictions are indicated at the file level in the Container List that follows.