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Interviewee
Billings, Claude January 8, 1971 

Call Number
71-002

Physical Description

56 pages; 2 tapes, 3 3/4 ips, 135 minutes; index

Interviewer
Tudor, David F.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Claude Billings, born 1904 and died 1985, owned and operated the Republican Akron News in Akron, Indiana from 1932 until 1962. During that time he served in several positions in the Republican state committee and the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. He speaks about Indiana politics during that time, particularly Senator William Jenner's run for governor in 1948. He discusses several other election years during that period and gives insights into his own involvement. After he sold the newspaper in 1962, he worked for several papers and ends the interview describing his duties as advisor to the Indiana State University student paper.

• Keywords
• • Corporation Names
  • Akron News
  • Indiana Republican Editorial Association
  • Indiana State University
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Republican Party
• • Occupation Names
  • journalist
  • state committee secretary
• • Personal Names
  • Capehart, Homer Earl, Jr.
  • Creighton, Hobart W.
  • Eisenhower, Dwight David
  • Gates, Ralph F.
  • Hillis, Glenn
  • Lyons, Robert W.
  • Morris, Ernest
  • Schricker, Henry F.
  • Willkie, Wendell L.
• • Place Names
  • Akron, Indiana
  • Fulton County, Indiana
  • Terre Haute, Indiana
• • Subjects
  • 1940 Republican National Convention
  • 1948 Indiana gubernatorial election