III. Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, 1974-1990
- Extent:
- 14 boxes, including 17 scrapbooks and 6 cartoons
- Scope and content:
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Series III. Lieutenant Governor documents Miller's service as Georgia's longest serving Lieutenant Governor, including promotional material from campaigns, speeches, clippings, correspondence, news releases, memoranda, political cartoons and scrapbooks. The series is divided into the following subseries: A. Campaign, B. General Files, and C. Messer Files. Campaign files include information about fundraising events as well as the campaign handbook for the 1978 race, clippings, and promotional materials, including the Miller Messenger newspaper and the Zellmobile. General Files include clippings and magazine articles as well as personal files involving trade missions to China and Greece in 1986 and research on courthouses around the state of Georgia. There are also personal notes and correspondence as well as copies of memoranda from the office of lieutenant governor and speeches made while Miller was in office. Six original political cartoons with personalized inscriptions by Clifford Baldowski of the Atlanta Journal Constitution are located in this series as are seventeen scrapbooks of clippings dating from 1975 to 1989. The Messer Files are those of Shirley Miller's executive assistant, Beverly Messer. They contain correspondence and news releases from Mrs. Miller's office as well as speeches that she gave and information regarding events she attended.
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