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Interviewee
Gray, Hugh May 19, 1973 

Call Number
73-007

Physical Description

29 pages; 2 tapes, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; no index

Interviewer
Tudor, David F.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Hugh Gray, born 1904, served as Martin County, Indiana Republican chairman from 1950 until 1964. William E. Jenner was also from the area, and Gray speaks about their close ties, including partnership in a log cabin retreat. He describes political patronage through the state and briefly discusses the 1940 gubernatorial campaign and the 1948 Republican convention. As county chairman, he knew and speaks about the local politics in Loogootee and the surrounding locales.

• Keywords
• • Corporation Names
  • Indiana University
  • Loogootee School Board
• • Occupation Names
  • Republican county chairperson
• • Personal Names
  • Capehart, Homer Earl, Jr.
  • Craig, George N.
  • Emmert, James
  • Fenton, Harry C.
  • McNutt, Paul V.
  • Schricker, Henry F.
  • Tucker, James M.
• • Place Names
  • Bloomington, Indiana
  • Loogootee, Indiana
  • Paoli, Indiana
  • Shoals, Indiana
• • Subjects
  • 1940 Indiana gubernatorial campaign
  • 1948 Republican National Convention
  • Catholicism
  • Democrats
  • local politics
  • political patronage