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 1964
The Great Silver Rush, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Silver Dollar - vanishing Americana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1963
Aid to Federally Affected Area - Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Big Hole Battlefield National Monument, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
CAB Hearings in Billings - 'Use it or Lose it' Air Service Case, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Chinese Russian Convergence in Asia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Commencement Address at Hellgate High School - Missoula County, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Committee Meeting - Senator Pastore and Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Page 18217 - Campaign 164 - Baker Case, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Page 19508 - Campaign 164 U.S. Foreign Policy in the World Today, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Sale of Wheat to Russia -, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The Railroad Rules Dispute, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Water and Air Pollution - The Problems Nationally and in Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Convention of Montana Educational Association Compromise in a Democracy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Death of Pope John XXIII, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Dedication of East Coast Memorial - New York, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Dedicatory Address of Mike Mansfield - Tower Junction Bridge Yellowstone National Park, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Defense and Mr. McNamara, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Federal Aid Primary Highways, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Glasgow Air Force Base Road and Bureau of Reclamation Transmission Line, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Glendive - Marsh - Baker Road, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Going But Not Well Enough, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Helena, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Miles City - Fort Keogh Livestock Experiment Station, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Miles City Livestock and Beef Imports, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Missoula Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Missouri River Studies, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Montana School of Mines, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
New Crisis in Indochina, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Power Generation and Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Present and Future Legislative Goals, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Readers Digest Testimonial Dinner for Harry Byrd, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Rocky Mountain College - U.S. Foreign Policy in the World Today, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Sidney - Soil and Water Research Center, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Soil and Water Research Center - Sidney, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speech - August 2 - Test Ban Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speech by Mike Mansfield - Graduation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speech by President Kennedy at Great Falls, Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Chinese-Russian Convergence in Asia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Defense and Mr. McNamara, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The Senate and Its Leadership, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Test Ban Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Test Ban Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Test Ban Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Senate and its Leadership, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Timber Industry - Capital Gains Tax, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
West Yellowstone Airport Groundbreaking, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1962
Address of Mike Mansfield in Las Vegas, Nevada, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Changing Europe and U.S. Policies, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Commencement Exercises - Stonehill College, Latin America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Correction of the Record - Mt. Dams and Power Projects, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Cuban Situation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Women - Washington, D.C., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Great Falls - Going But Not Well Enough, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Interests and Policies in Southeast Asia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Interfaith and Tolerance - New York City, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Jefferson - Jackson Day Dinner - Denver, Colorado, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike Mansfield Foreign Policy Mission, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Montana Power Preference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Press Release from Senators Mike Mansfield and Lee Metcalf re: Election of Democratic National Committee 6, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Remarks to the Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
S. 3153 - Northwest Power Preference Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speech by Mike Mansfield At Kingston Armory, Kingston, Pa., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Changing Europe and U. S. Policies, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Interests and Policies in Southeast Asia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Remarks to the Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Mike Mansfield - Bushness Memorial - Hartford, Conn., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Mike Mansfield - Campaign, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Summer Seminar of College Students, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The American Political Scene, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Northern Cheyennes Move Ahead Under Self-Help Programs, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vision Magazine - Why Young People Must be Interested in Government, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1961
A Third Way on Berlin, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Berlin and Germany, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Berlin: A Strategic Area, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Campaign Miscellaneous Statements, 1961-1962, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
College Housing Loan Program, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Page 496-504 - Rule XXII, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Questionable value of Railroad Mergers, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 2498 - Montana Railroad Mergers and Service Curtailment, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Daily Missoulian - The Lesson of Laos, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Facing the Future, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Foreign Aid, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Foreign Policy and the New Administration, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
How to Bring World Peace, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Launching of the Leahy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Legislative Proposals for Changes in the Presidential Electoral System, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Memo - Sending Troops to Vietnam - Opposed, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike's Comments on President Kennedy's Speech on Berlin, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Miscellaneous Statements - Carbon Copies of Speeches in Blk., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
News Release Interview of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Northern Great Plains Center, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001