Dan Rostenkowski papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Dan Rostenkowski papers
- Identifier
- BMRC.LOYOLA.ROSTENKOWSKI
- Repository
- Loyola University Chicago, University Archives and Special Collections
- Language
- English
- Size
- 900.0 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1958-1995
- Creator
- Rostenkowski, Dan
Biiographical note
Dan Rostenkowski (1928-2010) was elected as a Democrat to the Illinois State General Assembly where he served as a representative in the sixty-eighth general assembly (1952) prior to being elected to the Illinois state senate, where he served from 1954 to 1956. Rostenkowski was first elected to the eighty-sixth United States Congress in 1959 and served in seventeen succeeding Congresses until he was defeated for re-election in 1995. While in Congress he served as the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from the 97th through the 103rd Congresses, and of the Joint Committee on Taxation from the 97th through 101st Congresses.
Conditions Governing Access note
The Administrative Assistant/Staff, Campaign Materials, Speeches, Academies, and Publications series are open for research. Contact the University Archivist or Political Papers Archivist for information.
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2011 March 7 by Lisa Calahan and Andrew Steadham.