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Political campaigns are crucial to all governments elected by voters. Whether the campaign is for public office, an initiative or a referendum, the focus of campaigners is to persuade voters to make decisions and cast votes.

Some key historical questions:
What tools do campaigns use to persuade voters? What role do political parties play in campaigns? How are debates, pamphlets, commercials, websites and yard signs used in political campaigns? How can a single campaign, political organization or candidate be used to interpret the role and development of political campaigns in history? What is the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission? What role does Public Disclosure Commission play in Washington state political campaigns? Who was Richard A. C. Greene and how was his campaign different from those run by other candidates for public office?

Be sure to consider other possibilities for historical questions as you analyze and interpret your topic.


Primary Sources:
  • Secretary of State Political Campaigns Collection
  • Election Abstracts
  • Governor Evans Papers/Public Disclosure Commission Files
  • Public Disclosure Commission Reports of Commercial Advertising


  • Election Abstracts
  • Goldmark/Canwell Libel Trial Case File (Okanogan County Cause No. 16010)

  • Election Abstracts
  • Election Abstracts
  • Election Abstracts

  • Election Abstracts
  • R. Frank Atwood Papers
  • Jack Metcalf Papers
  • Al Swift Papers
  • Robert W. Teshera Collection


  • Austin Mires Papers
  • Northwest Worker Newspaper (Socialist Party Publication)
  • RG 21 U.S. District Court case files ca. 1860-1965
  • ARC Online Collections “Civil Rights” Digital photographs under “Campaign”

  • Fred E. Balwin Papers
  • Lewis B. Schwellenbach Papers
  • Certificates of Nomination 1802-B1
  • Fair Campaign Practices Ordinance Development File
  • Mayor Clinton's Election Campaigns, Electrion Scrapbooks 5219-05

  • League of Women Voters Papers
  • Seattle Campaign Material Scrapbooks
  • State Campaigns of Yesterday Scrapbook
  • Political Pamphlets Collection
  • Washington and King County Campaign Literature Scrapbooks


  • Voting and Politics Collection
  • James E. Bradford Papers
  • Alice F. Bryant Papers
  • Stephen F. Chadwick papers
  • George F. Christiensen Papers
  • Arthur D. Comfort Papers
  • Marvin Durning Papers
  • Fair T. and Nels Ekroth Papers
  • Ambrose B. Ernst Papers
  • Mary Farquharson Papers
  • John B. Fink Papers
  • Lady Willie Forbus Papers
  • James M. Geraghty Papers
  • Joseph Gluck Papers
  • Richard A. C. Greene Papers
  • Saul Haas Papers
  • William S. Holt Papers
  • Peter Iverson Papers
  • Henry Jackson Papers
  • Warren G. Magnussen Papers
  • Nixon For President Records
  • Edward A. Pitter papers
  • Mildred Powell Papers
  • Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index
  • Edith D. Riley Papers
  • Socialist Works Party Collection
  • Joan Thomas Papers
  • Carl Ulonska Papers
  • Clayton Van Lydegraf Papers
  • Ferdinand G. Whitaker Papers
  • Andrew Winberg Papers
  • Melba Windoffer Papers
  • Young Men’s Republican Club of King County Records
















  • Lincoln Republican Club Records (MS 146)
  • Washington State Voter's Guides (online and on-site)
  • Publications of the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission
  • Albert Johnson Campaign papers (MS 144)


  • Fred C. Ashley Papers
  • A.B. Baker Papers
  • Homer M. Hill Papers
  • Austin Mires Papers
  • Joseph Wicks Papers




Secondary Sources:
Seattle, 1900-1920: From Boom Town, Urban Turbulance, To Restoration by Richard C. Berner
Seattle, 1921-1940: From Boom to Bust by Richard C. Berner
Seattle Transformed: World War II to the Cold War by Richard C. Berner
Washington: A Centennial History by Robert E. Ficken and Charles LeWarne
Empire of the Columbia: A History of the Pacific Northwest by Dorothy Johansen
The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History by Carlos Schwantes
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era by Quintard Taylor
“It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own:” A New History of the American West by Richard White



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