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Fargo (N.D.) -- Politics and government.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Burleigh F. Spalding Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 8
Abstract Reminiscences (73 p., 1924) chiefly relating to North Dakota politics and Spalding's activities as U.S. representative (1899-1901, 1903-1905), with the state Republican Party, and as North Dakota Supreme Court judge (1907-1914), as dictated to Mary Nowatski; donor correspondence; and newspaper clippings. No papers dated 1935-1959.
Dates: 1924-1975

Eben G. Guthrie Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 819
Abstract Correspondence; family history concerning the Guthrie name; historical sketch of Alice Rutledge, early North Dakota teacher; poetry; pamphlets, chiefly tributes on the death of Guthrie; and clippings. Includes information relating to Guthrie's career as deputy Cass County, N.D., auditor and secretary of Fargo Board of Education; and Brig. Gen. Maxon S. Lough, prisoner of war in the Philippines during World War II, originally of Fargo, and son-in-law of Guthrie.
Dates: 1886-1945

Fargo Citizens for City Management Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 174
Abstract Organization started in 1953 by a small group of citizens concerned about keeping the city manager position in city government.
Dates: 1953

Fargo (N.D.) Auditor’s Office Records, 1878-1904

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 114
Abstract The collection consists of records dealing with the construction of early bridges between the cities of Fargo and Moorhead.
Dates: 1878-1904

Fargo (N.D.) Auditor’s Office Records, 1883-1955

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 84
Abstract Financial records of the City of Fargo as well as license registers, contract record, sidewalk assessments, and record of ordinances.
Dates: 1883-1955

Fargo (N.D.) Board of City Commissioners Meeting Minutes Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 42
Abstract The collection consists of official meeting minutes and other documenting over one hundred years of city government in Fargo, N.D.
Dates: 1875-2002

Fargo, North Dakota Board of Adjustment Papers

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Identifier: Mss 86
Abstract The Fargo, North Dakota Board of Adjustment Papers contains the minutes of the Board, 1928-1933. The Board of Adjustment was an administrative agency that served to consider variances and special exceptions to ordinances, and heard appeals of interpretation of zoning ordinances.
Dates: 1928-1933

Gib Bromenschenkel Papers

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Identifier: Mss 342
Abstract The Gib Bromenschenkel Papers include materials related exclusively to Bromenschenkel's thirty-two year tenure on the Fargo City Commission. During his tenure, Gib was involved with the reorganization of the bus system, the controversial Model Cities Project, the Sheyenne Diversion Project, the Broadway Mall Project, the West Acres Mall development, the Metropolitan Council of Governments, redevelopment of the city water plant, the Torfin Teigen controversy, the Women's Health Clinic...
Dates: 1949, 1964-2002

Herschel Lashkowitz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 343-MSS 1596.16

League of Women Voters of Fargo Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 83
Abstract The purpose of the league, organized in 1951 at Fargo, N.D. is to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government. The records document the activities of the organization during the 1950s including minutes, correspondence, reports, budgets, clippings and a scrapbook. The collection includes its newsletter as well as various issues from the leagues in Mandan and Williston and the state-wide organization.
Dates: 1951-2001.