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Title: Beaumont Enterprise, June 25, 1970 -- Editorial, Congressmen Back Bentsen
Identifier: camh-dob-001684
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Political Campaigns
Dates: 1970-06-25
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 190.63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: An editorial that ran in the Beaumont Enterprise announcing that a majority of the Texas Democratic Delegation endorsed candidate Lloyd Bentsen for U.S. Senate. Only Congressman Bob Eckhardt of Houston declined to sign the statement. The editorial notes that Jack Brooks was the Whip of the Texas delegation and his support would be key.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to Lloyd Bentsen, June 30, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001683
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Bentsen, Lloyd, 1921-2006
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Political Campaigns
Dates: 1970-06-30
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 190.63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter sent by Jack Brooks with an attached editorial submitted to the Beaumont Enterprise announcing that a majority of the Texas Democratic Delegation endorsed Lloyd Bentsen for Senate [camh-dob-001684].

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to Lloyd Bentsen, November 4, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001686
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Contributor: Bentsen, Lloyd, 1921-2006
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Elections
Dates: 1970-11-04
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 190.63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A short letter from Jack Brooks congratulating Senator-elect Lloyd Bentsen on his victory. Brooks informs him that Bentsen carried Brooks's Ninth District by 8,062 votes. Attached to this letter is the vote count of the Ninth District [camh-dob-001687].

Title: Letter from Lloyd Bentsen to Jack Brooks, June 23, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001685
Creator: Bentsen, Lloyd, 1921-2006
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Political Campaigns
Dates: 1970-06-23
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 190.63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from Senate candidate Lloyd Bentsen thanking Jack Brooks for securing the endorsement of the Texas Democratic Delegation.

Title: Letter from Lloyd Bentsen to Jack Brooks, June 5, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001682
Creator: Bentsen, Lloyd, 1921-2006
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Democratic party (U.S.), Political Campaigns
Dates: 1970-06-05
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 190.63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from Senate candidate Lloyd Bentsen following the 1970 primary election telling Jack Brooks he looks forward to being on the ticket together in November. He offers to be helpful to the other Democratic nominees and says he welcomes Brooks's advice and counsel for his Senate race.

Title: Letter from Lloyd Bentsen to Jack Brooks, November 12, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001761
Creator: Bentsen, Lloyd, 1921-2006
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Political Campaigns
Dates: 1970-11-12
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 190.63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A letter from Senator-elect Lloyd Bentsen thanking Jack Brooks for his help securing Betnsen's victory in the 1970 midterm election.

Title: Letter from Lloyd Bentsen to Jack Brooks regarding his departure from Congress, June 5, 1954
Identifier: camh-dob-000925
Creator: Bentsen, Lloyd, 1921-2006
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1954-06-05
Box: 2007-255/12
Folder: 7.4
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Lloyd Bentsen would go on to defeat incumbent Senator Ralph Yarborough in the 1970 election and then as the Vice Presidential nominee on the Michael Dukakis ticket in 1988.

Title: Typewritten note from Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen to Jack Brooks, December 1, 1994
Identifier: camh-dob-000979
Creator: Bentsen, Lloyd, 1921-2006
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1994-12-01
Box: 2007-255/746
Folder: 1
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Best wishes from Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury, to Jack Brooks after the 1994 election.

Title: Vote count of the Ninth Congressional District of Texas, 1970 U.S. Senate race between Lloyd Bentsen and George H.W. Bush, undated [November 1970]
Identifier: camh-dob-001687
Topic: Elections
Dates: 1970-11
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 190.63
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The vote count of Jack Brooks's Ninth Congressional District in the midterm election for U.S. Senate on November 3, 1970, attached to his congratulatory letter to Bentsen [camh-dob-001686]. Democratic candidate Lloyd Bentsen beat Republican candidate George H.W. Bush by 8,062 votes. Brooks endorsed Bentsen for Senate.