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Title: Fax from Mark White to Jack Brooks and Richard Crawford White, August 3, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001972
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012, White, Richard Crawford, 1923-1998
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The fax was sent from Texas Secretary of State Mark White to Representatives Richard Crawford White and Jack Brooks. It comments on the success of voter registration by mail in Texas. White proposed an amendment to the Voter Registration Act that would make Texas exempt from the Act, while receiving federal funds for their own program. The Act was intended to create a federally mandated system that would allow voters to register by mail. Texas already had a similiar program in place at the time.

Title: Letter from a Texas legislator to Jack Brooks, February 8, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001401
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1965-02-08
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Gus F. Mustcher, a Texas State Representative who presided over the committee in charge of redistricting, writes a letter encouraging Jack Brooks to share any suggestions or concerns he has about the 1965 congressional redistricting.

Title: Letter from a Texas state legislator, June 16, 1960
Identifier: camh-dob-001067
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Elections
Dates: 1960-06-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Texas state legislator John Allen regarding proposed redistricting in H.R. 73.

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
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 Lyndon B. Johnson's executive secretary to Jack Brooks, February 12, 1960
Identifier: camh-dob-001073
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Political Campaigns, Elections
Dates: 1960-02-12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Larry Blackmon, executive secretary of Lyndon B. Johnson for President, inviting Brooks to share insights and advice.

Title: Letter from Texas legislator to Jack Brooks, June 2, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001391
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1965-06-02
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Cameron Hightower, a Texas State Representative whose district resides in the same area as Jack Brooks, writes to Brooks in order to alert him of the controversial redistricting of Texas in 1965.

Title: Letter from Texas legislator to Jack Brooks, June 23, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001392
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1965-06-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: D. Roy Harrington, a Texas State Senator, writes to Jack Brooks in order to alert him of the final map of the dedistricting of Texas.

Title: Photograph of Jack Brooks, Charlotte Brooks, Dolph Briscoe, and Janey Briscoe, June 3, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002523
Topic: Elections
Dates: 1972-06-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Color photograph of Jack Brooks with his wife Charlotte Brooks, Dolph Briscoe, and Janey Briscoe on election night in Austin. Briscoe won a primary race against Frances "Sissy" Farenthold and went on to win the general election for Governor of Texas.

Title: Telegram from Mark White to Jack Brooks, July 30, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001976
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-07-30
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Texas Secretary of State Mark White proposes an amendment to the Voter Registration Act that would extend free postage to official voter registration information and absentee ballots.