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Governor's Budget Hearing

Date: 12 02 1960
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson, with aides and legislators, listens during a governor's budget hearing to a presentation by State Tax Commissioner John A. Gronous...
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Inaugural Ceremonies at the Wisconsin Capitol

Date: 01 02 1961
Description: A line of well-wishers waiting in the State Capitol to greet Governor and Mrs. Gaylord Nelson after the inauguration ceremonies.
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Inaugural Ceremonies at the Wisconsin Capitol

Date: 01 02 1961
Description: Supreme Court Chief Justice John E. Martin administers the oath of office to newly elected Governor Gaylord A. Nelson during the inaugural ceremonies in th...
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Lyndon Johnson Greeted at Airport

Date: 10 30 1964
Description: President Lyndon Johnson accompanied by Governor John Reynolds and Senator Gaylord Nelson is greeted at Mitchell International Airport by girls dressed in ...
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Governors Freeman and Nelson Chat

Date: 03 31 1960
Description: Governor Orville Freeman of Minnesota (left) chats with Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson before a Freeman press conference in Nelson's office. Freeman is ...
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Inauguration Day for Governor Nelson and the First Lady

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: People lining up in the governor's conference room at the Wisconsin State Capitol to congratulate Governor and Mrs. Gaylord (Carrie) Nelson after his inaug...
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Menominee Tribal Restoration

Date: 04 22 1975
Description: Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton signing the documents that restored tribal status to the Menominee Indians. Watching the ceremony are Senator Gaylo...
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In La Follette's Shadow

Date: 07 1972
Description: Congressman David R. Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson posed talking in front of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in the National Statuary Hall in th...
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Governor Nelson Receives a Purple Heart Viola

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Six-year-old Deborah McCann presents a purple heart viola to Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson. The Madison chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Hea...
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Obey and Nelson Shake Hands

Date: 1962
Description: Congressman David Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson shake hands as Joan Obey looks on. The occasion was a dinner, and a man and woman sit at a table with foo...
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Earth Day 1970

Date: 04 1970
Description: Acting on the suggestion of his mentor Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin congressman David R. Obey participated (here at a gym) at the first Earth Day even...
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Wisconsin Savings Bond Drive

Date: 03 14 1961
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson (right) receives his commission as honorary state chairman of the 1961 Savings Bond Drive from Harold F. Dickens, Milwaukee, who is...
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Eleven-Month University School Year Proposal Reaction

Date: 03 03 1959
Description: This photograph accompanied a story about the student reaction to a proposal by Governor Gaylord Nelson for an 11-month school year at the University of Wi...
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Inauguration Day and Supporters Greet Wisconsin's New First Family

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: Sixteen-month old Dave Watts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Watts, riding on his father's shoulders to greet Governor-elect Gaylord Nelson and Mrs. (Carrie) Nels...
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Governor Nelson Heading Home After His First Day of Work

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson is shown entering the governor's official state car on Tuesday at the end of his first full day of service as Wisconsin's chief exe...
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A Commemoration of Conservation: The Story of Earth Day

Article exploring the history of Earth Day and its creation by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson.
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Eleven-Month University School Year Proposal Reaction

Date: 03 03 1959
Description: This photograph accompanied a story about the student reaction to a proposal by Governor Gaylord Nelson for an 11-month school year at the University of Wi...
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Eleven-Month University School Year Proposal Reaction

Date: 03 03 1959
Description: This photograph accompanied a story about the student reaction to a proposal by Governor Gaylord Nelson for an 11-month school year at the University of Wi...
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Governor Starts State Poppy Drive

Date: 05 12 1959
Description: Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson receives a poppy in his office from Selma Mepham, chairman of the 1959 state poppy drive. Looking on are Florence Wooleve...
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United States Naval Reserve Party

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Carl Syvertsen explains the surface search radar apparatus to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Timothy Brown and Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson at the Uni...

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