Special Collections & Archives
Manuscript Group 119
Robert E. Hosack
Papers, 1947-1982
3 l.f.
The descriptive inventory of the papers of Robert E. Hosack in the University of Idaho Library was prepared by Judith Nielsen in October 1983.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The material in this archival group was donated to the University of Idaho Library by Robert Hosack in March 1983. It is contained in three archival file boxes and consists of material dealing with the Idaho Legislature, special interest areas, and the United World Federalists.
Material relating to the legislature includes committee minutes,, directories, and miscellaneous publications. The special interest area series consists of file folders of newspaper clippings and articles. Items in the United World Federalists series include correspondence, several different newsletters, and a variety of publications.
Items in each series are described in more detail in the following Description of Series.
PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION
Items in the Idaho Legislature series are divided by type of material, i.e., directories, minutes, publications. The special interest area material is arranged alphabetically by subject, and the United World Federalist material is arranged by type of material.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
I. Idaho Legislature Box 1
II. Special Interest Areas Boxes 2-3
III. Local Planning & Zoning Box 3
IV. United World Federalists Box 3
VI. League of Women Voters of Idaho Box 3
DESCRIPTION OF SERIES
I. Idaho Legislature
Robert Ewing Hosack was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on May 15, 1911. In 1943 he joined the faculty of the University of Idaho where he taught for thirty-one years, retiring in 1974. He served as 5th district representative in the 43rd and 44th Idaho Legislatures (1975/76 & 1977/78); the following materials relate to this aspect of his career.
Directories
Directory of Idaho Information Sources. June 1975
State of Idaho Telephone Directory. 1976
Legislative Directory. 1975, 19761, 19779, 1978
Minutes of Meetings
House Printing & Legislative Expense Committee, 44th Legislature lst Session. 1977
House Printing & Legislative Expense Committee. 44th Legislature, 2nd Session. 1978
Judiciary, Rules & Administration Committee. 44th Legislature, 2nd Session. 1978
State Affairs Committee. 44th Legislature, 2nd Session. 1978
Publications
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Improving Urban America: a Challenge to Federalism. Washington, D.C., 1976.
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. In Respect to Realities: a Report on Federalism in 1975. Washington, D.C., 1976.
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Pragmatic Federalism: The Reassignment of Functional Responsibility. Washington, D.C., 1979.
Arthur Andersen & Co. Sound Fiscal Judgment in the Public Sector. 1976.
Duncombe, Sydney and Michael S. Vollmer. The Use of Revenue Sharing Funds by Local. Government in Idaho. Moscow, University of Idaho Bureau of Public Affairs Research. 1974.
Legislative Data - 43rd Legislature
Standing Committees of the House and Senate
Pamphlet: "A brief introduction to your legislature."
Map of state legislative members
Voting records compiled by the Idaho Conservation League
Voting records compiled by the Idaho Employees Association
Legislative Data - 44th -Legislature
Map of State Legislative members
Voting records of members contained in Idaho Challenge, May 1977
Final disposition of bills in the House and Senate
Legislative programs of several organizations
Legislative Expenses
Telephone bills, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978
Travel expenses, 1976
Legislative Process
Chart: "Passage of a Bill"
Seating charts for the House and Senate
Articles "Legislative bill drafting.," by Albert R. Menard
Newspaper clippings
85 pages of mounted clippings
II. Special Interest Areas
This series consists of file folders containing newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other publications. The folders, which are in alphabetical order by topic, contain some material which deals with legislative committees, some which concerns bills in the legislature, and also material which is not connected with politics at all.
Administrative Rules and Regulation
Agriculture
Association for the Humanities in Idaho
Association of Idaho Cities
Bad Checks
Budget
Business Committee
Carter (Jimmy)
Common Cause
Conservation
County
Criminal Justice Planning Agency
Death Penalty
Death with Dignity
Democratic Caucus
Economy
Education
Election Procedure
Election - Presidential Primary
Energy
Gambling
Governor
Health & Welfare Committee
Heyburn State Park
Highways
Human Rights Commission
Idaho Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Indian Affairs
Inflation
Judiciary & Rules Committee
Land use Planning
Lien Laws Committee
Litter Law
Loyalty Oath Case
Nursing Homes
Older Citizens & Welfare
Optometry
Personnel System
Public Employees
Public Utilities Commission
Purchasing
Resources & Conservation
Retirement System
Right to Life
Right to Work
State Affairs Committee
State Governments, Council of
State Legislatures, National Conference of
Sunshine Law
Taxes
Trading Stamps
Travel
University of Idaho
Water
III. Local Planning & Zoning
As in the previous series, this series consists of file folders of newspaper clippings. The clippings in this series relate to city planning and zoning ordinances in the city of Moscow and Latah County. Listed below are the folder headings and the inclusive dates of the clippings.
Latah County 1971-1980
Moscow - Publications, 1970-1978
Moscow - newspaper clippings, 1958-1982
Moscow - Landfill, 1965-1972
Moscow - Student housing, 1965-1973
IV. United World Federalists
The United World Federalists was formed at Asheville, North Carolina, in Feb. 1947. Robert Hosack was involved with the organization almost from its beginning and served as president of the Moscow, Idaho, chapter.
Newsletters
Political Action Letter (13 issues, 1949-50)
Branch and Chapter Letters (5 issues, 1948-50)
FYI (For Your Information) (4 issues,, 1951; 3 issues, 1970)
Local Chapter Material
Three membership lists
Minutes from meetings (1 in 1948; 2 in 1950)
Three newspaper clippings
Undated financial statement
Three month budget, February - April 1948
Correspondence
19 items, 1947-1950
7 items, 1969-1971
2 items, 1979
Circular Letters, etc.
Bylaws
"Chapter Organization and Activity"
"Political Action for United World Federalists "
"A Guide for Federalist Activity"
Balance Sheets, December 1969 - March 1970
Circular letters, 1969-1970
Publications (Partial list)
Eichelberger, Clark M. "Time has come for action." New York, Commission to Study the Organization of Peace. August 1944.
Einstein, Albert. "Atomic war or peace." Reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly, n. d.
Holliday, W.T. "Our final choice.'' Reprinted from Reader's Digest, January 1948.
Kornhauser, Samuel J. "World government under law: American experience with federal union." Reprinted from American bar Association Journal, June 1947.
Levering, Samuel R. "World government the path to peace." Reprinted from University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin, October 1946.
"Preliminary draft of a world constitution as proposed and signed by Robert M. Hutchins, ...." Common Cause, March 1948.
Taylor, Glen H. "Creation of a world republic." Speech to the US Senate, October 24, 1945. Reprinted from Congressional Record.
Taylor, Glen H. "Need for Strengthening United Nations." Speech to the US Senate, July 9. 1947.
Warburg, James P. "Let's take the tough ones." Address to the second national assembly of the United World Federalists, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 13, 1948.
Wofford, Harris L. "The Case for the campaign." Published for the Foundation for World Government. n.d.
"World Government Highlights." Abridged edition. New York, United World Federalists. 1949.
World Government News. October 1949, February 1950.
V. Photograph
A119-l. Photograph of Robert E. Hosack with Norma Dobler and Frank Church taken in 1978.
VI. League of Women Voters of Idaho
In January 1984 Nancy Hosack added to this archival group some material from the Moscow branch of the League of Women Voters. The material is dated between 1955 and 1974 and is mainly comprised of copies of correspondence from league presidents to state legislators. Much of the material is related to the proposed revision of the state constitution.
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