Rusk County Democrat Newsletter Collection

File

Identifier: B-0162

Staff Only

Content Description

The newsletter contains a political calendar of Rusk County Democratic Party events, informational items, exhortations to vote, humor, and editorials. Many of the editorials are written by Mr. Jones, who regularly extolled the working class virtues of Democrats and his perceived shortcomings of Republicans. --Excerpted from a letter accompanying the donation of the collection.

Dates

Event: Donated 9/20/2021

Language of Materials

The collection is in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Jo Anne Glossbrenner Jones was the chair of the Rusk County Democratic Club, an organization to promote the election of Democratic candidates in Rusk County and in the State of Texas, from 1990 to the Spring of 2000. In her capacity as chair, she and her husband, Malcolm Maurice Jones, regularly published a newsletter called the Rusk County Democrat. The newsletter was published 11 times per year, monthly except for December. The Jones' edited their last issue of the newsletter in March 2000. It is not known if someone else continued to publish the newsletter thereafter. --Excerpted from a letter accompanying the donation of the collection.

Extent

0.40 Cubic Feet (One clamshell box.)

Additional Description

Arrangement

There are 102 issues of the Rusk County Democrat newsletter in this collection. The collection is organized chronologically by year (1990-2000). It is described in 11 folders (one for each year) and housed in a clamshell box.