Barratt O'Hara papers, 1948-1968

Old resource ID was Ohara

Barratt O'Hara (1882-1969) enjoyed one of Illinois' longest legislative careers. He represented the Second Congressional District of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1948 until 1968. Prior to his election to Congress, he was the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, 1913-1917, and a partner in the law firm of William H. Sexton, 1939-1948, representing the city of Chicago in traction litigation and subway construction cases. Barratt O'Hara was elected to Congress as a Democrat and sat on the House Banking and Currency Committee, the House Sub-Committee on Housing, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the House Sub-Committee on Africa.

The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, legal records, congressional resolutions, agendas and minutes, maps, building plans, press releases, poll sheets, poems, sheet music, programs, bibliographies, and photographs. The materials pertain to such issues as public housing, medical insurance, the Indiana Dunes, veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Peace Corps, new independent nations in Africa, Israel-U.S. relations, the United Nations, the war in Vietnam, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Soviet Union, and the extension of the draft.

Barratt O'Hara papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Names
  • O'Hara, Barratt, 1882-1969 -- Archives
  • Peace Corps (U.S.).
  • United Nations.
  • United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
• Geographic Coverage
  • Africa.
  • Illinois.
  • Indiana--Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
  • Soviet Union.
  • United States.
• Subject
  • Chicago Political and Civic Life.
  • Diplomatic relations.
  • Draft.
  • Health insurance.
  • Legislators.
  • Newly independent states.
  • Public housing.
  • Relations with Israel.
  • Spanish-American War (1898).
  • Veterans.
  • Vietnam War (1961-1975).