Thomas M. Hayes Collection of Georgia Republican Party Campaign Audiovisual Materials, 1956-1964

7 16mm films, 1 1 ¼” audio reel, 116 photographs

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Preferred Citation: Thomas M. Hayes Collection of Georgia Republican Party Campaign Audiovisual Materials, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.

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HISTORICAL NOTE

The Georgia Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the state of Georgia. The Republican Party had a brief moment of power during the Reconstruction, from 1865 to 1872. The Republican Party in Georgia was from the beginning identified with the extremes of Radical Reconstruction. Georgia's only elected Republican governor, until the election of Sonny Perdue in 2002, had been Rufus Bullock, who served from 1868 to 1871. From the late nineteenth century until the 1960s, the state party's chief functions were to dispense the federal patronage when a Republican was in the White House and to aid in the nomination of a favored candidate at the Republican national conventions.

The state Republican Party remained a grass roots effort until the 1960s, when white Southerners who were disturbed by the integrationist stance of the Democrats turned to the more conservative party. The party was actively involved with Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign of 1964, but Goldwater lost that year's election by an overwhelming landslide. In 1966, there was a split in the Georgia Democratic Party, with former Democrats declaring themselves Republicans. This same year, Howard “Bo” Calloway became the first Republican from Georgia to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. The state Republican Party almost split during the 1976 campaign over who would be the Republican presidential nominee, Gerald Ford or Ronald Reagan. By 1980, Republican Mack Mattingly defeated a long-standing Democrat, Herman Talmadge, for the office of United States Senator. Mattingly was the first Republican from Georgia elected to the U.S. Senate since the Reconstruction.

That same year, Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia in the Presidential election, though Georgia was one of seven states whose electoral votes went to Carter. Reagan's personal popularity with the voters secured his reelection in 1984. His vice president, George H. W. Bush, went on to win the presidency in 1988, maintaining the Republican hold on the allegiance of large numbers of centrist voters into the 1990s. By 1992, Congress came under control of the Republicans and a Republican from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, became Speaker of the House. Led by Newt Gingrich, the state of Georgia by 1994 was largely represented by a Republican delegation in the United States Congress including Senator Paul Coverdell and Representatives Jack Kingston, Mac Collins, John Linder, Bob Barr, Saxby Chambliss, and Charlie Norwood.

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SCOPE AND CONTENT:

Thomas M. Hayes Collection of Georgia Republican Party Campaign Audiovisual Materials consists of seven 16mm films, 116 photographs, and one audio reel. The films include commercially produced campaign advertisements and 16mm news film footage of a 1960 press conference conducted by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Democratic Representative from New York , in which he announces his campaign platform. The collection also includes an audiotape of Walter Reuther introducing John F. Kennedy at a political rally in Harlem ( New York City ). The filmed campaign advertisements include two one-minute television commercials for the 1956 presidential campaign comparing Democrats Harry S. Truman, Adlai Stevenson (the Democratic nominee for president), and Estes Kefauver (the Democratic nominee for vice president) with the Republican nominee for president and incumbent, Dwight D. Eisenhower; three twenty- to thirty-second television commercials of President Eisenhower urging voters to vote for Republican candidates in the 1956 Congressional elections; one twenty-second commercial for 1960 Presidential campaign featuring Republican nominees for president and vice president Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; a three-minute paid television advertisement for Richard Nixon for vice president, created by the National Republican Senatorial Committee; two versions of a Richard Nixon for vice president campaign commercial addressing the spread of communism.

The collection also includes 116 images of Richard Nixon and his wife on a speaking trip to Atlanta, Georgia.

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RELATED COLLECTIONS IN THIS REPOSITORY:

Georgia Republican Party Records

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RELATED COLLECTIONS IN OTHER REPOSITORIES:

Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
Lewis, John Llewellyn, 1880-1969.
Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972.
Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1930-
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
Republican Party (Ga.)
Presidents --United States --Election --1962.
Political campaigns -- Georgia.
Political parties -- Georgia.
Atlanta (Ga.) --Politics and government --1951-
Georgia --Politics and government --1951-
United States --Politics and government --1953-1961.
United States --Politics and government --1961-1963.
Sound recordings.
Photographs.
Motion pictures.

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