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Title: An address on: ports and commerce, delivered by: the Honorable Jack Brooks, United States Congressman, from the 9th Congressional District of Texas, Port of the Sabine Propeller Club, 12:00 Noon, September 24, 1970, Royal Coach Inn, Beaumont, Texas
Identifier: camh-dob-002008
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Intracoastal waterways
Dates: 1970-09-24
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Remarks delivered by Jack Brooks regarding the modernization of the 9th Congressional Districts ports, shipping, channels, and water transport and navigation facilities.

Title: Handwritten notes by Congressman Jack Brooks for his letter to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, undated [approximately September 1955]
Identifier: camh-dob-001677
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1955-09
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Handwritten notes attached to Brooks's September 10, 1955 typed letter to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. The notes are an outline for the final draft of the letter and indicate Johnson is in Austin, Texas. At the time, Johnson was recovering from a heart attack.

Title: Joint Statement of the Waterways Committee and the Fresh Water Supply Committee of the Port Arthur, Texas, Chamber of Commerce to the Bureau of the Budget on Navigation Improvements Sabine-Neches Waterway, Texas and Fresh Water Supply McGee Bend Dam in Washington D.C., October 23, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001462
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-10-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A statement to Congress from the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce regarding how important two proposed infrastructure projects, the Sabine-Neches waterway and the McGee Bend Dam, are to Port Arthur and the surrounding region. Port Arthur was in Jack Brooks's district and he played an integral role working with his constituents to appropriate federal funding for the projects.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, April 13, 1961
Identifier: camh-dob-001506
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1961-04-13
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Fredda Swanson to Jack Brooks regarding the McGee Bend Dam and economic concerns in southeast Texas.

Title: Letter from Allen J. Ellender to Lyndon B. Johnson, May 22, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001465
Creator: Ellender, Allen J., 1890-1972
Contributor: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-05-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Senator Allen J. Ellender, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Works, lets Senator Lyndon B. Johnson know that he received Johnson's letter and the enclosed statements from Jack Brooks regarding the McGee Bend Dam and the Sabine-Neches Waterway. He says that the statements from Brooks will be made a part of the hearings on the Public Work Appropriations bill.

Title: Letter from Archer Fullingim to Jack Brooks, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002282
Creator: Fullingim, Archer
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Archer Fullingim, Publisher, Kountze News, taking Jack Brooks to task for seemingly thanking Martin Dies for his support of the McGee Bend Dam project. Dies was running for the United States Senate against incumbent Ralph Yarborough.

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
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 Jack Brooks to a constituent, April 26, 1961
Identifier: camh-dob-001505
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1961-04-26
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Jack Brooks to Mrs. Fredda Swanson in which he makes the case the McGee Bend Dam, later named the Sam Rayburn Dam, will be an economic engine for southeast Texas.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, February 18, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001072
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, United States. Congress
Dates: 1959-02-18
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Jack Brooks to constituent David Henderson of Jasper, TX regarding an editorial that appeared in a local Beaumont paper questioning Brooks's loyalties to his district. Brooks also mentions the McGee Bend Dam project, Lyndon Johnson, and Congressional politics.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, June 23, 1961
Identifier: camh-dob-001503
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Intracoastal waterways
Dates: 1961-06-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Jack Brooks to John F. Graham in which Brooks describes local infrastructure projects he has been involved in.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to constituent, November 14, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-001058
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1956-11-14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks responds to letter from W.D. Richardson, Sr. of Buna, TX with support for the project and bemoaning the intransigence of a local landowner, E.L. Kurth.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to Lyndon B. Johnson, September 10, 1955
Identifier: camh-dob-001007
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1955-09-10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Typewritten letter from Jack Brooks to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson wishing him a healthy recovery in reference to the heart attack Johnson suffered in July 1955. Brooks expresses gratitude for Johnson's role in passing Brooks's McGee Bend Dam legislation through the Senate, and expresses his belief that Johnson will do great things once he has physically recovered.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to the Chairman of the Waterways Committee of the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce, March 23, 1960
Identifier: camh-dob-001457
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1960-03-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks writes to Munger T. Ball, Chairman of the Waterways Committee of the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce, telling him that he will have the opportunity to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Works on the McGee Bend Dam. He mentions that written statements regarding the other projects important to the district, including the Sabine-Neches waterway, should be prepared and submitted, but that in the interest of time, the oral arguments should be saved for discussing the McGee Bend Dam only.

Title: Letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Jack Brooks, May 28, 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001464
Creator: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-05-28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Senate majority leader, writes to Jack Brooks to let him know that his statements on the McGee Bend Dam and the Sabine-Neches Waterway, which Johnson sent to the Committee on Appropriations, will be heard as part of the hearing on the Public Works Appropriations bill.

Title: Letter from the President of Gulf States Utilities Company to Jack Brooks, May 7, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001207
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1968-05-07
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A typewritten letter from the President of Gulf State Utilities, Eldon A. Werner, saying he had an enjoyable visit with Jack Brooks in Washington, D.C.. He referenced the Taylor's Bayou project [a flood-control project in Jefferson County] and that a lot of it went over his head because he was new to Beaumont and still learning about projects.

Title: Letter to constituents reporting on Congressional accomplishments, 1955
Identifier: camh-dob-001062
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1955
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks reports to his district on the McGee Bend Dam, an Air Force Radar Station in Lufkin, rice and cotton acreage, and other district issues.

Title: News Release announcing continued work on the McGee Bend Dam, November 9, 1956
Identifier: camh-dob-001045
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams
Dates: 1956-11-09
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A press release related to the building of the McGee Bend Dam with a reference to opposition from Ernest L. Kurth.

Title: News release, July 16, 1963
Identifier: camh-dob-002174
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Dams, Legislation
Dates: 1963-07-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Release announcing that Jack Brooks is introducing legislation to rename the McGee Bend Dam the Sam Rayburn Dam to honor the late Speaker of the House.

Title: Newsletter to constituents from Jack Brooks, October 1959
Identifier: camh-dob-001038
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Dams
Dates: 1959-10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A newsletter updating constituents on work Brooks was completing in the House of Representatives, including the construction of the McGee Bend Dam (later named the Sam Rayburn Dam).

Title: Newsletter to constituents from Jack Brooks, October 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001039
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Light bulbs, Dams
Dates: 1964-10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A newsletter updating constituents on work Brooks was completing in the House of Representatives, including the Sam Rayburn Dam and recreation area and his investigation of light bulbs.

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