Political Affairs

Collection area

Black and white photo depicting buses carrying evacuees of Japanese ancestry arriving at the Colorado River Relocation Center in Poston, Arizona — Buses arrive at Poston, AZ in 1942 from the United States War Relocation Authority Papers collection (MS 042).

About this collection area

Special Collections is the repository for a number of major congressional and political affairs collections of regional and national significance.

Our collection of political papers available for public research includes: Henry Ashurst, Lewis W. Douglas, George W.P. Hunt, Jesse A. Udall, Morris K. Udall, Stewart L. Udall, James McNulty, Dennis DeConcini, and Jim Kolbe.

Featured collections

Black & white photo of Governor Castro with President Jimmy Carter, the two men are smiling at one another

Raul H. Castro papers

MS 417

Material documenting the life and career of educator, attorney, judge, diplomat, and political figure Raul H. Castro.

Certificate of Life Membership in the Morse Telegraph Club of America, undated

Levi Stewart Udall collection

MS 293

Levi S. Udall (1891-1960) was a lawyer and judge, and the son of David K. and Ella Udall, Mormon pioneers to Arizona in 1880.

Papers of Morris K. Udall

MS 325

Composed of Morris K. Udall's professional and public papers that document his thirty years as a Representative from Arizona's 2nd Congressional District, his tenure as Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, and his campaign for the 1976 Democratic Presidential nomination.