Summary Information

Title: Kathryn Morrison Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1974-1990

Creator:

• Morrison, Kathryn, 1942-

Call Number: Platteville Mss BE; PH Platteville Mss BE; Audio 1657A

Quantity: 8.4 cubic feet (23 archives boxes) and 34 photographs (1 folder), and 7 audio recordings

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Kathryn Morrison, the first woman elected to the Wisconsin State Senate, a Democrat who represented the 17th District (Richland, Grant, Iowa, Lafayette, and Green counties) from 1974 to 1978. The papers primarily document the 1977 and 1978 Legislature, and they consist of constituent correspondence, memoranda, clippings, extensive newsletters and weekly newspaper columns, photographs, draft legislation, and information circulated by state government agencies, other legislators, and advocacy groups. Best documented is Morrison's interest in divorce reform, the economic viability of family farms, medical malpractice, mining taxes, transportation and railroad abandonment, and controversial improvements to Highways 18-151. Also included are files on her role as a member of the Joint Finance Committee on the 1977-1978 state budget and particularly on appropriations for the Department of Health and Social Services.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pltv00be

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