Collection Dates: 1949 --1970
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Posted to Internet: March 2003
Acquisition
Note: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa
Libraries by Lester Kluever in 1976.
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Lester Luverne Kluever (1920 --
1991) was born on a farm near Atlantic, Iowa. He earned his B.S. degree in
business administration from the University of Iowa in 1947. In 1950, he completed
his law degree at Iowa. He entered into a legal practice, Kluever & Van
Ginkel, in his hometown. Lester L. Kluever was a Republican member of the
state legislature from 1956 to 1970. He belonged to numerous professional,
civic, and charitable organizations including the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers,
the Atlantic Chamber of Commerce, the American Legion, and the Farm Bureau.
Kluever died of a heart attack at the age of seventy.
Scope and Contents
The Lester L. Kluever collection
is arranged alphabetically by subject, and chronologically within each subject.
Materials document his political career and include correspondence, subject
files, and election materials. The correspondence is divided into categories
such as letters from constituents, letters concerning specific legislative
sessions or issues, letters requesting favors or information, etc. Notable
correspondents include Robert D. Ray, William J. Scherle, Jack Miller, and
Ben F. Jensen. Some folders are strictly political in nature, dealing with
the Republican Party, elections, and campaign issues. The vast majority of
this collection, however, is made up of subject files relating to legislative
issues ranging from apportionment to liquor laws and public utilities to pari-mutuel
betting.
Box List
Anita Lake, 1960 -- 1965
Anita Road, l963
Annual Sessions, 1968
Appropriations, 1963 -- 1965
Assessments of property tax, 1963 -- 1964
Bills introduced, 1957
Bills introduced or handled, 1965
Bills introduced or handled, 1967
Bills -- miscellaneous, 1965
Bills -- miscellaneous, 1967
Box 2
Bills -- summary, 1961
Blood test, 1961
Board of control, 1966
Board of Regents, 1960 -- 1968
Bowling Bill, 1965
Budget, 1962 -- 1966
Bus Ride Bill for Private Schools, 1963 -- 1971
Campaign, 1966, including a letter from Robert D. Ray
Check Bill, 1967
Cities and Towns (League of Iowa Municipalities), 1964 -- 1967
Civil Service, 1967
Box 3
Commerce Committee, 1965
Community College, 1967
Comptroller, 1961 -- 1965
Conservation, 1966 -- 1967
Conventions -- State and Presidential, 1962 -- 1968
Court Study Committee, 1967
Dairy Bill -- HF 203, SF 120, F 404, 1963 -- 1965
Daylight Savings Time, 1965
Deer Hunting Bill, 1965
Doves, 1963 -- 1967
Box 4
Educational TV, 1966 -- 1967
Election Contest, 1959
Election Contest, 1967
Electoral College Reform, 1961
Exira-Davids Creek Flood Control Project, 1965 -- 1968
Fair Employment Laws, 1962 -- 1963
Farm Bureau, 1966 -- 1967
Firearms, 1965
Floor Leader, 1962, including letters from William J. Scherle and Marvin W. Smith
Fraternals and Mutuals, 1963 -- 1965
Gas Tax Increase, 1964 -- 1965
Government Reorganization, 1967
Guthrie County Lake, 1963
Industrial Loan Bill
Insurance Bills, 1965
Iowa Good Roads Association, 1962 -- 1967
Iowa-Nebraska Boundary Dispute Committee, 1960 -- 1964
Box 5
Iowa State Education Association, 1964 -- 1967
Iowa Taxpayers Association, 1961 -- 1969
IPERS, 1967
Judiciary Committee, 1965
Judiciary Committee, 1967, including a letter from Clyde E. Herring
Labor, 1962 -- 1969 (2 folders)
Legalizing Acts, 1965
Legislation, 1957 -- 1959
Legislation, 1961 -- 1963
Box 6
Legislation, 1969
Letters -- Cass County, 1970
Letters from constituents, 1959 -- 1960, including a letter from T. J. Frey
Letters from constituents, 1961
Letters from constituents, 1960 -- 1967, including letters from Harold E. Hughes,
Melvin D. Synhorst, B. B. Hicklenlooper, Jack Miller, John R. Hansen, and
Norman A. Erbe
Letters from constituents, 1963 -- 1964
Box 7
Letters from constituents, 1967 (3 folders)
Letters from constituents, 1969 (2 folders), including a letter from Donald E.
Johnson
Letters from constituents -- Liquor, 1959
Letters from constituents -- Liquor, 1963
Box 8
Letters from others, 1959 -- 1964, including letters from Jack Miller, Ben F.
Jensen, and Lew Warren (3 folders)
Letters, 1965 Session (2 folders)
Letters, 1967 Session, including a letter from William J. Scherle
Letters, 1969 Session
Letters, 1970, including a letter from Robert D. Ray
Letters -- Seeking office -- speakers, etc., 1963 -- 1966, including two letters
from William J. Scherle
Letters to be answered, 1963, including a letter from Ben F. Jensen
Box 9
Letters to be answered and information for constituents, 1965 -- 1966, including
a letter from Charles E. Grassley
Liquor by drink, 1963
Lobbyists
Meat Imports, 1964
Mentally Retarded, 1966
Nursing Homes, 1965
Obituary, 1991
Opticians Bill, 1967
Optometrists, 1960 -- 1967
Outdoor Advertising, 1961 -- 1965
Parimutuel Horse Racing, 1965 -- 1967 (2 folders)
Personal Property Tax, 1967
Platforms, 1964 -- 1968, Republican Party
Polls, 1967
Primary Law in Iowa, 1969
Box 10
Probate Code
Proportionate Sharing -- Education, 1965 -- 1967
Public Instruction, 1960 -- 1963
Public Safety, 1966 -- 1967
Public Utilities, 1964
Questionnaires, 1965 -- 1967
Rabies Control Bill, 1963 -- 1964
Reapportionment (3 folders)
Box 11
Reapportionment
Reapportionment, 1969
Redistricting -- Senate and Congressional, 1958 -- 1961
Republican Party, 1949 -- 1966
Savings and Loan, 1965
Schools, 1968 -- 1969
Session, 1961
Session, 1969
Sex Education, 1969
Box 12
Shoplifting Bill, 1961
Shoppers Guide Bill, 1967
Sifting Committee, 1967
Sunday Closing Law, 1963 -- 1965
Tax Bills, 1965 -- 1966
Tax Study Committee, 1966 -- 1967
Tire Studs, 1965 -- 1967
Utilities Bill, 1961 -- 1967 (2 folders)
Vocational Rehabilitation, 1960 -- 1965
Vocational Rehabilitation, 1967
Water Pollution, 1966
Ways and Means, 1961 -- 1965
Webster City Gas Bill, 1965
Western Iowa State College, 1970
