Anne M. Whalen (#340)

An Inventory of Her Personal Papers, 1960-1968
In the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
List of Series
Collection Description

Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers 1960-1968
Political activist. Democratic political campaigns, Syracuse, N.Y., area, 1960-1968. Letters, campaign materials, newspapers, and magazines relating to the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

Access
Open.

Usage Restrictions
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Provenance
Received from Denise Dunbar of Liverpool, New York, and Patrice E. Thomas of Syracuse, New York, in April 2005 (Acc. 2005-147).

Extent
About 150 items (5 linear inches; 0.5 cubic feet).

Items Separated
Items separated include audiovisual material (AV-340), oversize material (OVZ-340), and oversized printed material (PM-340).

Date Opened
November 2005.

Finding Aid Prepared by
Hugh K. Truslow.

Related Collections
Ralph H. Horton Oral History Interview, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

The Personal Papers of Anne M. Whalen

Biographical Note
Anne M. Whalen was involved in local Democratic political campaigns in the Syracuse, New York area from 1960 to 1968. She worked on John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1960, and received a note of thanks from then-candidate Kennedy in October 1960 for her work on the Telephone Campaign Committee. By 1964, she was president of the Town of Salina Women’s Democratic Club, and staff director of Citizens for Johnson-Humphrey-Kennedy in Syracuse. In 1967, she helped arrange an event for Robert F. Kennedy at the Hotel Syracuse for which she received a letter of thanks from him. She was married to John P. Whalen, a vice president at the Syracuse Savings Bank, who died in 1990 at age 64. They had three daughters, Kathleen, Patrice, and Denise, and a son, John. She was an acquaintance of Ralph H. Horton, a former Syracuse resident and former classmate of John F. Kennedy’s at Choate and Princeton, who ran Kennedy’s presidential campaign in Nebraska and then worked for the Secretary of the Army from 1961 to 1969.

Collection Overview
This collection of Anne M. Whalen papers primarily relate to her involvement with the 1960 presidential campaign and the 1964 Senate campaign of Robert F. Kennedy. The material includes letters, campaign material, newspapers, and magazines, and other ephemera. The collection consists of one series, Political Subject Files, 1960-1968.

List of Series
Series 1. Political Subject Files, 1960-1968

Collection Description

Series 1. Political Subject Files, 1960-1968.
About 150 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject, thereunder chronological by year.

This series consists of letters, campaign material, and newspapers and magazines, mainly from the 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy and the 1964 New York Senate campaign of Robert F. Kennedy. The campaign materials provide insight into the activities of local campaign organizers. Items of particular interest include guides to setting up a democratic club, internal letters on local party work, suggestions on how to find and organize volunteers for voter registration drives, and a paper ballot from the 1960 election with handwritten notations.