OVERACKER-HEARD CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA ARCHIVE
July 2003
Institute of Governmental Studies
University of California
109 Moses Hall #2370
Berkeley, CA 94720-2370
510-642-1472 (voice)
510-643-0866 (fax)
OVERACKER-HEARD CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA ARCHIVEJuly 2003 |
LIBRARY Institute of Governmental Studies University of California 109 Moses Hall #2370 Berkeley, CA 94720-2370 510-642-1472 (voice) 510-643-0866 (fax) |
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Title:
Overacker-Heard Campaign Finance Data Archive
Creator:
Louise Overacker and Alexander Heard
Extent:
66 boxes
Repository:
Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Shelf Location:
The collection is housed in closed stacks at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library. Materials may be paged 11am - 5pm, Monday through Friday.
Provenance:
The Overacker-Heard Collection was acquired by the Institute of Governmental Studies Library in 1999. The library inherited the collection from the Citizen's Research Foundation, a now defunct organization dedicated to the study of political finance in the United States.
Access:
The collection is open for research. Materials may be paged from closed stacks and are available for use in the library reading room.
Publication Rights:
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library as the owner of the physical items.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], Overacker-Heard Campaign Finance Data Archive, Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The Overacker-Heard collection consists of 66 boxes of index cards which contain lists of individual contributors to presidential campaigns and party committees from 1904 to 1952. The cards formed the data bases for Louise Overacker's Money in Elections (1932), her accounts of financing the 1936, 1940 and 1944 presidential elections and Alexander Heard's The Costs of Democracy (1960). Approximately one third of the data pertains to the 1936 election. The 1952 data is collected in a different form than the earlier data, and is intended to be a comprehensive coding of candidates, groups and individuals, whereas the earlier data is not.
The earlier data focuses on individual contributions to Republican candidates beginning in 1904; contributions to Democrats began in 1912. Also included are contributors to the third party candidacies of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and Robert LaFollette in 1924. Contributions of $1000 or more are listed alphabetically by party and may include contributor's geographical location and business affiliation. Contributions to the parties' national committees, state and local committees, and presidential candidates are separated from on another. Beginning with the 1936 election, contributors to both Democratic and Republican candidates and national committees are combined in one extensive alphabetically arranged file. Generally, contributions of $100 or more are included, although smaller contributions are recorded in some file boxes. The 1940 boxes are similar to boxes from 1936 but include only contributions of $1,000 or more. For 1944, the limit is $500. For the later data, contributions are not listed, but rather coded. The threshold is $500.
The following are books and articles by Louise Overacker and Alexander Heard that utilize data in the archive.
| Box # | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Contributions to Republican
candidates 1904, 1908, 1912, 1915 Contributions to Progressive candidates 1912, 1924 Alphabetical by party. |
| 2 | Contributions to Democratic candidates 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924 |
| 3 | Contributions to Republican candidates 1920 (Baker-Zimmerman) |
| 4 | Contributions to Republican candidates 1924 Alphabetical by name. |
| 5 | Contributions to Republican candidates 1928 (Adams-Zukor) |
| 6 | Contributions to Democratic candidates (state
and local party committees) 1928-32 Contributions to Republican candidates 1932 Alphabetical by name. |
| 7 | Contributions to Democratic candidates 1928-29 Contributions to Republican National Committee 1944 (Astor-Walter) |
| 8 | Contributions to Republican National Committee 1933-42 (Ames-Coe) |
| 9 | Contributions to Democratic National Committee 1933-42 (Golding-North) |
| 10 | Contributions to Republican National Committee 1933-42 (Mellon-Robinson) |
| 11 | Contributions to Republican National Committee 1933-42 (Ford-Hunt) |
| 12 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Abato-Briggs) |
| 13 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Bright-Crispin) |
| 14 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Crissman-Eytinge) |
| 15 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Faber-Gwinn) |
| 16 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Haas-Johnson) |
| 17 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Johnson-Love) |
| 18 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Love-Morris) |
| 19 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Morris-Quish) |
| 20 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Robinson-Silver) |
| 21 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Silver-Tobias) |
| 22 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Tobin-Williams) |
| 23 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936 (Williams-Zane) |
| 24 | Democratic and Republican committee transfers 1936-1944 |
| 25 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936-1944 |
| 26 | Democratic and Republican party transfers 1936 |
| 27 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1940 (Abercrombie-Ryerson) |
| 28 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1940 (Reynolds-Wiggins) |
| 29 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1944 (Aarons-Cutting) |
| 30 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1944 (Dahlberg-Gwinn) |
| 31 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1936-48 |
| 32 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1944 (La Bayteaux-Pursell) |
| 33 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1944 (Quckenbush-Swigert) |
| 34 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1944 (Tabui-Wyner) |
| 35 | Democratic Committee transfers 1944-1955 |
| 36 | Republican Committee transfers 1944- 1950 |
| 37 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1948 (Angel-Guggenheim) |
| 38 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1948 (Haas-Owens) |
| 39 | Contributions to Democratic and Republican
parties 1948 (Pabst-Zweitel) |
| 40 | Republican committee transfers 1951-54 |
| 41 | Democratic, Republican, Labor party committee
transfers 1952 |
| 42 | Democratic and Labor party committee transfers 1952 |
| 43 | Republican party committee transfers Minor parties and misc. groups: transfers |
| 44 | Transfers: Assorted 1952 |
| 45 | Transfers: Assorted 1952 |
| 46 | Democratic and Republican party committee
transfers 1952 |
| 47 | Candidate and group codes by state 1952 (Alaska-Connecticut) |
| 48 | Candidate and group codes by state 1952 (Florida-Massachusetts) |
| 49 | Candidate and group codes by state 1952 (Michigan-North Dakota) |
| 50 | Candidate and group codes by state 1952 (Ohio-Wisconsin) |
| 51 | Split ticket contributors 1952 Democrats and Republicans |
| 52 | Political contributions 1952 (Aaron-Bernstein) |
| 53 | Political contributions 1952 (Bernuth-Caine) |
| 54 | Political contributions 1952 (Callahan-Crocker) |
| 55 | Political contributions 1952 (Croft-Dunlap) |
| 56 | Political contributions 1952 (Dunn-Gale) |
| 57 | Political contributions 1952 (Gallagher-Hanes) |
| 58 | Political contributions 1952 (Hanley-Houghton) |
| 59 | Political contributions 1952 (Houlihand-Kennedy) |
| 60 | Political contributions 1952 (Kump-Lucas) |
| 61 | Political contributions 1952 (Luce-Migel) |
| 62 | Political contributions 1952 (Milibank-Oliver) |
| 63 | Political contributions 1952 (Oilman-Redstone) |
| 64 | Political contributions 1952 (Reynolds-Schumacher) |
| 65 | Political contributions 1952 (Toffer-Warren) |
| 66 | Political contributions 1952 (Miscellaneous) |