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
Collection
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
Collection
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
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.