This digital collection consists of speeches by, statements of and interviews with Mike Mansfield (1903-2001) drawn from the extensive Mike Mansfield Papers held at the University of Montana’s Mansfield Library. Mansfield was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1942 and served five terms as representative of Montana’s 1st District. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952 and reelected in 1958, 1964 and 1970. He became Assistant Majority Leader (Majority Whip) of the Senate in January 1957, and served in that capacity until 1961 when he was elected Majority Leader of the Senate. He held that position until he retired from the Senate in 1977 - longer than any other Majority Leader in the history of the U.S. Senate. He served as Ambassador to Japan from 1977-1988, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989.
The digitized content in this online collection spans Mansfield’s career as a candidate, legislator and ambassador. The majority of the content is from the 1940s to the 1970s. The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center partnered to make this digital collection available. You may search or browse this collection.
Submissions from 1966
Press Release Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Sec. 14 of National Labor Relations Act - Congressional Record, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Viet Nam and China- Shadow of War-The Substance of Peace, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield - Athletic Director Retires - Butte, Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The John Foster Dulles Oral History Project - Transcript of a Recorded Interview with MM, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Shadow of War - The Substance of Peace - Yeshiva University, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Unveiling of Statue of Senator Dennis Chavez in U.S. Capitol, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
U.S. Forces - Reduction in Western Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vietnam and the United Nations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1965
Achievements of the 89th Congress, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Closing Veterans Administration Hospitals (Miles City), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Commencement Address - St. Mary College Xavier, Kansas, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Closing of Glasgow AFB, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Page 25527-28 on 14 b, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record re: Draft Dodgers and Demonstrations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional re: President's Message on Federal Pay Increases, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Futures for Children, Inc., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Jefferson - Jackson Day Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Pan American Congress on Soil Conservation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Release of Copper from National Stockpile, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Repeal of 14 b of the National Labor Relations Act - Congressional Record, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Rural Water Supply Program, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Silver Dollars, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Viet Nam: Narrowing the Issues, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Vote on Motion to Table H.R. 77, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Women's Journey, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement by Mike Mansfield on the Vote for Cloture, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Mike Mansfield in Response to Inquiries from students Interested in a Political Career, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
St. Patrick's Day - The Irish Fellowship Club, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Summary of 89th Congress, 1st Session, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Situation in Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Young Democratic Clubs of America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vietnam: Narrowing the Issues, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Voting Rights Bill, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Women's Journey, USA, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1964
15th Annual Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Awards Luncheon, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Address by MM - Sheraton Park Hotel - Centennial Dinner - Washington D.C., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Address by Senator Mansfield given at the Appreciation Dinner for Democratic Members -Mass., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Agricultural Conservation Program, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Amendment to Restrict Imports of Beef, Veal and Lamb - No. 456, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
American Good Government Society, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Annual Editorial Conference of the Lee Newspapers, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Beef Import Agreement, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Beef Import Agreement - Correction of the Record, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Billings, Montana Chamber of Commerce, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Cattle and Beef Imports, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Cattle and Beef Imports, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Civil Rights, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Civil Rights Bill H.R. 7152, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Cloture, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Columbia River Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Legislation - Veterans H.R. 1927, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Meat Imports - Wild Animals and Wild Birds, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reprint - Silver Dollars, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reprint - Silver Dollars, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The Cattle Industry Bill S. 2525, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The Situation in Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Coup d'etat against Souvanna Phouma - Laos, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Dedication of John F. Kennedy Elementary School, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Committee, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
File Copies of Congressional Record in 15A - Montana Floods, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
File Copies of Mimeographed Statement, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Fluorspar - An Important Montana Industry, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Fraternity System in Colleges, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Free Importation of Wild Animals and Wild Birds, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Ideals of the Democratic Party, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Javits Debate, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Merger of the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Montana Agriculture Publication, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Montana State Democratic Convention, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
On-The-Record Interview of Senator Mansfield The Detroit News, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Paradoxes of our Times, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
President's Conference of Independent Grocers Alliance, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Relations Between U.S. and Panama, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Senate Committee of Finance, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Senator Mansfield and Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Social Security Amendments of 1964, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement before Subcommittee on Treasury Appropriations Committee, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement by Mike Mansfield - Beef Imports, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement for the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield - Press Release, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement re: Presidential Safety, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Canal Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Civil Rights Bill and Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001