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Title: Letter from Ben Ramsey to Jack Brooks, October 4, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-002271
Creator: Ramsey, Benjamin Turner
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Elections
Dates: 1965-10-04
Box: 2007-255/133
Folder: Public Works Committee, Legislation -- 89th Congress
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Ben Ramsey, Chairman, Texas Railroad Commission, requesting a copy of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and lamenting that Jack Brooks is no longer his congressman.

Title: Letter from Bob Eckhardt to Barbara Jordan, March 4, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-002396
Creator: Eckhardt, Bob
Contributor: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1974-03-04
Box: 2007-255/298
Folder: 250.9
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Congressman Bob Eckhardt invites Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, along with the rest of the Texas Delegation, to a luncheon at the request of Jack Brooks, who was hosting the event. The luncheon was planned for the Texas Delegation to connect with Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, who was visiting Washington D.C.

Title: Letter from constituent to Jack Brooks, August 9, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001397
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1965-08-09
Box: 2007-255/129
Folder: 122.33
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from constituent V.T. Mason of Jasper County, which was cut out of Jack Brooks's district in redistricting legislation in 1965. Mason thanks Brooks for all his work as Congressman and laments that Brooks will no longer represent their county. Brooks's family farm was in Jasper County.

Title: Letter from Constituent to Jack Brooks, November 7, 1956.
Identifier: camh-dob-001083
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1956-11-07
Box: 2007-255/27
Folder: 24.2
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from constituent, W.D. Richardson, Sr. to Jack Brooks asking for his influence in getting the McGee Bend Dam built to bring water to farmers in the region.

Title: Letter from constituents to Jack Brooks, February 27, 1957
Identifier: camh-dob-002279
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1957-02-27
Box: 2007-255/35
Folder: McGee Bend Dam, Projects (All corres. from Sept. 1956)
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from constituents Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Thomas to Jack Brooks expressing support for the McGee Bend Dam project and disappointment in the pollution of the Angelina River.

Title: Letter from constituents to Jack Brooks, February 9, 1957
Identifier: camh-dob-002281
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1957-02-09
Box: 2007-255/35
Folder: McGee Bend Dam, Projects (All corres. from Sept. 1956)
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from constituents Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Feagin asking about compensation for Angelina County residents whose land may be lost to the proposed McGee Bend Dam project.

Title: Letter from constituents to Jack Brooks, January 16, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001772
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Dates: 1970-01-16
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 191.15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A petition sent by constituents from Port Arthur, TX asking Jack Brooks and his colleagues to call for the care of South Vietnamese children orphaned during the course of the Vietnam War. Brooks responded to each signee individually.

Title: Letter from constituents to Jack Brooks, March 21, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001825
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, African Americans--Civil Rights
Dates: 1964-03-21
Box: 2007-255/112
Folder: 88.18
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Three children, Reba, Tommy, and Jimmy Davis write to Jack Brooks about their opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

Title: Letter from constituents to Richard Nixon and Jack Brooks, May 17, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001777
Contributor: Nixon, Richard M. Richard Milhous, 1913-1994, Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Protest movements
Dates: 1970-05-17
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 191.22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of a letter from Elton and Helen Eubanks of Port Arthur, TX sent to President Richard Nixon and copied to Jack Brooks. The Eubanks' express their disapproval of campus protests and resultant opposition to the lowering of the voting age to eighteen. The 26th amendment to the Constitution, lowering the voting age to eighteen, was ratified the following year.

Title: Letter from Dolph Briscoe to Jack Brooks, April 2, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-001377
Creator: Briscoe, Dolph
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress, Thank-you notes
Dates: 1973-04-02
Box: 2007-255/267
Folder: 231.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe thanks Jack Brooks for helping him with congressional issues, describing Brooks's finesse in getting Briscoe past "sticky" situations.

Title: Letter from Dolph Briscoe to Jack Brooks, July 9, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001407
Creator: Briscoe, Dolph
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Cattle, Screwworm--Control
Dates: 1965-07-09
Box: 2007-255/129
Folder: 123.14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Dolph Briscoe discusses a joint meeting between the Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation and the National Livestock Confederation of Mexico about the possibility of working together on a screwworm eradication program.

Title: Letter from Edward T. McFarland to Jack Brooks, April 19, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-002288
Creator: McFarland, Edward T.
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1956-04-19
Box: 2007-255/35
Folder: McGee Bend Dam, E.L. Kurth, Sr. - Oct. 55- Projects
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Edward T. McFarland, Angelina County Judge, to Jack Brooks regarding E.L. Kurth, Sr. and the McGee Bend Dam project.

Title: Letter from E.L. Kurth, Jr. to Jack Brooks, April 12, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-002287
Creator: Kurth, Ernest L., Jr.
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1956-04-12
Box: 2007-255/35
Folder: McGee Bend Dam, E.L. Kurth, Sr. - Oct. 55- Projects
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from E.L. Kurth, Jr. of the Angelina County Lumber Company to Jack Brooks regarding the McGee Bend Dam project and timber operators in Texas.

Title: Letter from E.L. Kurth, Sr. to east Texans, July 15, 1952
Identifier: camh-dob-002298
Creator: Kurth, Ernest L. (Ernest Lynn), 1885-1960
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1952-07-15
Box: 2007-255/35
Folder: McGee Bend Dam, July 1952 thru Dec 1953, Projects
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Ernest L. Kurth, Sr., owner of two timber operations near the proposed McGee Bend Dam, laying out his reasons for opposing the project.

Title: Letter from E.L. Kurth, Sr. to Jack Brooks, February 13, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-002289
Creator: Kurth, Ernest L. (Ernest Lynn), 1885-1960
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1956-02-13
Box: 2007-255/35
Folder: McGee Bend Dam, E.L. Kurth, Sr. - Oct. 55- Projects
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Ernest L. Kurth, Sr. of Southland Paper Mills, Inc. to Jack Brooks detailing his opposition to the McGee Bend Dam project.

Title: Letter from executive director of the Edna Gladney Home to Charlotte Brooks, March 12, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001770
Contributor: Brooks, Charlotte Collins, 1935-2014
Topic: Moody Foundation (Galveston, Tex.)
Dates: 1970-03-20
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 191.12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Ruby Lee Piester, executive director of the Edna Gladney Home, thanking Charlotte Brooks for welcoming Piester during a recent home visit with the Brooks family. Piester asks Mrs. Brooks to pass on her thanks to Jack Brooks for his advice regarding the Moody Foundation.

Title: Letter from Frances "Sissy" Farenthold to Jack Brooks, April 11, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001720
Creator: Farenthold, Frances (Frances Tarlton), 1926-
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1968-04-11
Box: 2007-255/176
Folder: 160.1o
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Frances "Sissy" Farenthold praising Jack Brooks for voting for the 1968 Civil Rights Act. Farenthold ran for Governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974 losing to Dolph Briscoe both times. Brooks received many constituent letters urging him to vote against the bill because of its so-called "Open Housing" provision.

Title: Letter from George Mahon to Jack Brooks, November 15, 1961
Identifier: camh-dob-001340
Creator: Mahon, George Herman, 1900-1985
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1961-11-15
Box: 2007-255/92
Folder: 77.8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Congressman George Mahon to Jack Brooks clearing up Mahon's comments quoted in a Robert Allen column regarding Sam Rayburn and his potential successor. Rayburn died November 16, 1961.

Title: Letter from Governor Allan Shivers to Jack Brooks, September 17, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-001063
Creator: Shivers, Allan, 1907-1985
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Records and Correspondence
Dates: 1956-09-17
Box: 2007-255/27
Folder: 24.9
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Allan Shivers thanks Jack Brooks for his note and for sending a copy of the Agriculture Yearbook.

Title: Letter from Homer Angell to Jack Brooks, June 28, 1954
Identifier: camh-dob-002292
Creator: Angell, Homer D.
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1954-06-28
Box: 2007-255/35
Folder: McGee Bend Dam, Jan 1954 thru Dec 1954, Projects
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Congressman Homer Angell, Chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Subcommittee, thanking Jack Brooks for sending along a fact sheet about the McGee Bend Dam project.

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