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Summary Information
Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland Records
1878-1974
(bulk 1938-1947)
- Wisconsin. Governor (1943-1947: Goodland)
Series 2; Disc 57A; PH 4557-PH 4558
27.6 cubic feet (67 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize folder), 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 1 disc recording, and 39 photographs (1 archives box, 1 folder, and 1 oversize folder)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records, mainly 1938-1947, of the Walter S. Goodland administration (1943-1947), including indexed official correspondence, press releases and scrapbooks (some on microfilm only); proclamations; bulletins; memoranda; invitations; appointments; files relating to the World War II Wisconsin homefront and communications with state agencies such as the Aeronautics Commission, the Deep Waterways Commission, the Veterans Recognition Board, and the Wisconsin Council of Defense and with federal agencies such as the Office of Civilian Defense, the Office of Defense Transportation, the Office of Price Administration, the War Production Board, the War Manpower Commission, and the War Department. Well documented administrative topics include the Allis-Chalmers strike, Bangs Disease, the Battleship Wisconsin , deer hunting, gambling, the Gentile League, highway funding, the Integrated Bar Bill, lake pollution, legislative and elective politics, the Mississippi Water Use Council, old age pensions, postwar conversion, rationing and rent control, school consolidation, taxes, veterans' problems, and the Womens Army Corps. Personal material included with the official papers consists of pre-gubernatorial family correspondence; microfilmed newspaper columns written by Goodland for the Racine Times-Call (1922-1932) some of which concern his years in the Wisconsin legislature; correspondence, speeches and press releases as lieutenant governor (1939-1943); personal and family correspondence dating from his years as governor including extensive exchanges with William J. Campbell, Martin J. Gillen, George M. Sheldon, and the Goodland family; an unpublished biography (ca. 1974) by Goodland's granddaughter, Dorothy Hackler; and an unpublished Goodland family genealogy. There are scattered letters from correspondents prominent in Wisconsin and in national politics and other areas such as William J. P. Aberg, A.W. Bayley, J. Henry Bennett, Fred Bassett Blair, David Bogue, John L. Bohn, Chester Bowles, John Bricker, H.C. Brockel, Herbert Brownell, Jr., William George Bruce, Gustave Buchen, James Byrnes, John Byrnes, John Callahan, John B. Chapple, Noble Clark, Thomas Coleman, R.S. Cowie, Leo T. Crowley, Thomas E. Dewey, John E. Dickinson, LaVern R. Dilweg, Edgar G. Doudna, C.A. Dykstra, William T. Evjue, H.J. Fitzgerald, John E. Fitzgibbon, E.B. Fred. William A. Freehoff, August Frey, Bernhard Gettelman, John Goodland, Frank Graass, Howard T. Greene, George A. Haberman, Charles A. Halbert, Julius P. Heil, Daniel Hoan, Kenneth Hones, Merlin Hull, Harold Ickes, Adolph Kanneberg, Frank B. Keefe, D.J. Kenny, Robert S. Kerr, James J. Kerwin, Warren P. Knowles, Roy E. Kubista, and A.A. Kuechenmeister. Also Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., James R. Law, Arthur A. Lenroot, Aldo Leopold, B.L. Marcus, John E. Martin, Paul V. McNutt, Jess Miller, Reid F. Murray, Carl N. Neupert, Alvin E. O'Konski, A.J. Opstedal, Cyrus L. Philipp, R.L. Pierce, Milton Polland, Louis Radke, Rudolph M. Schlabach, Frank J. Sensenbrenner, Conrad Shearer, Lawrence H. Smith, Harold E. Stassen, Roy R. Stauff, William H. Stevenson, Arthur F. Stofen, Milo K. Swanton, M.W. Torkelson, Dwight Warner, Thad F. Wasielewski, A.E. Wegner, Lawrence C. Whittet, Alexander Wiley, Wendell Willkie, Voyta Wrabetz, F.M. Young, and Fred R. Zimmerman.
English
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