University of Missouri St. Louis, Millennium Student Center, Rm. 312-A
17 Arnold Grobman Dr.,
St. Louis
Senator Roy Blunt and the trustees of the State Historical Society of Missouri invite the public to a reception celebrating the 125th anniversary of the State Historical Society and the legacy of U.S. Representative and federal judge William L. Hungate. The papers of Hungate and other members of Congress are part of a new grant to improve public access to congressional papers at the State Historical Society. SHSMO trustee president Sen. Blunt and other dignitaries will make brief remarks at the reception.
Archivists at the State Historical Society have begun the first phase of a grant to organize, describe and make available four collections of Missouri congressional papers, including those of U.S. Representatives Dewey Short and Bill Emerson and U.S. Senators John Danforth and Thomas Eagleton. Archivists will process over 918 cubic feet of papers, electronic records, photographs, and audio-visual materials through this grant.
The next phase of the federally funded project will include the papers of Hungate, chronicling his career representing Missouri’s Ninth Congressional District (1964-1977) and as a federal judge on the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1979-1992). During his political career, Hungate garnered national attention as a member of the House Judiciary Committee investigation of President Richard Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal and later as one of several judges who oversaw the desegregation of St. Louis Public Schools. Hungate, who grew up in Bowling Green, died in 2007 and his papers reside at the State Historical Society of Missouri St. Louis Research Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus.