Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson:

An Inventory of the Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson Papers at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, Texas State Archives, 1941-1998, bulk 1952-1968

Biographical Sketches

Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson was born in Palestine, Texas, on November 28, 1920, the daughter of Seymour Seagler Stafford and Annie English. She married Everett Hutchinson in about 1945 and they had two children, Stafford and Ann. A longtime Washington, D.C., social figure, Hutchinson attended every presidential inauguration from 1953 until her death. She was a founding member, trustee, past secretary, and vice president emerita of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Hutchinson died on December 25, 2010, and is buried in the Palestine City Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.

Everett Hutchinson was born in Hempstead, Texas, on January 2, 1915. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration and his doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas and served in the United States Navy during World War II. He represented House District 20 (Fort Bend and Waller Counties) in the Texas House of Representatives during the 47th (1941) and 48th (1943) Texas Legislative session. He was appointed assistant Texas attorney general in 1949. Hutchinson served as campaign manager for Price Daniel during Daniel's successful race for the U.S. Senate in 1952, and went on to serve in other governmental positions, including as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1955 to 1965, and as deputy Secretary of Transportation under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also president of the National Association of Motor Bus Owners in the 1960s. Everett Hutchinson died on April 6, 1994, and is buried in the Palestine City Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.

(Sources include: Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson and Everett Hutchinson, both accessed at the Find A Grave website December 29, 2016; Texas Legislators: Past & Present, web page for Everett Hutchinson, accessed February 3, 2017; and the papers themselves.)

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Scope and Contents of the Papers

Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson and her husband Everett were friends and political associates of Price Daniel, Texas governor from 1957 to 1963, and his wife Jean Baldwin Daniel. Everett Hutchinson served as Price Daniel's campaign manager for his successful 1952 United States Senate race. The Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson papers consist primarily of correspondence, clippings, and political campaign material dating from 1941 to 1998, with the bulk dating from 1952 to 1968. The correspondence is primarily to Elizabeth Hutchinson and pertains mainly to the Daniels' and Hutchinsons' personal lives and their social interactions from the 1950s to the 1990s. The majority of the letters are from Jean Daniel, but there are some letters from mutual friends of the Daniels and Hutchinsons and from Elizabeth Hutchinson's parents. The campaign material and most of the clippings pertain to Price Daniel's U.S. Senate campaign and to other political candidates and issues from 1952 to 1953. Notable items include personal correspondence between 1952 and 1998 to Elizabeth Hutchinson from Jean Daniel, a 1957 thank you letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to the Hutchinsons, and speeches from Price Daniel's 1952 U.S. Senate race. Correspondence from the late 1950s to early 1960s documents some of the Daniel family's day-to-day life during Price Daniel's governorship and social activities that took place at the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin. Other correspondence documents social activities at the Daniel home in Liberty, Texas.

To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

Materials do not circulate, but may be used in the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center search room. Materials will be retrieved from and returned to storage areas by staff members.

Restrictions on Use

Under the Copyright Law of 1976 as amended in 1998, unpublished manuscripts are protected for the life of the author plus 70 years. The term of copyright for published materials varies. Researchers are responsible for complying with the Copyright Law.

Technical Requirements

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Related Material

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

(Identify the item), Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson papers. Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Accession Information

Accession number: 2006.105

The Elizabeth Stafford Hutchinson papers were donated to the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center on July 12, 2006, by Elizabeth S. Hutchinson.

Processing Information

Processed by Lisa Meisch, December 2006

DACS compliance and EAD encoding by Angela Swift, June 2017

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Detailed Description of the Papers

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