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 1961
Peace and Berlin, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Personal Opinion, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Planning Funds for Libby Dam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Private or Public Power Development re: Hungry Horse News, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Remarks of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Senator Mansfield's Column as per Request of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Copper Production, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Foreign Aid, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Foreign Policy and the New Administration, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Legislative Proposals for Changes in the Presidential Electoral System, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The Present Crisis in International Relations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Basic Problem of Latin America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Dominican Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Place of Books and Libraries in the Present World, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Present Crisis in International Relations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Wheat Referendum, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Yellowtail Dam Ground Breaking Ceremony, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1960
America's Lost People, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
British Blue Streak Cancellation: A New Opportunity for Free Nations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Castro and Cuba - Sugar Quota, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record re: Summit Meeting, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Conventions and Campaigns, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic National Convention 2nd Nominating Johnson, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Senatorial Primary, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Depletion Allowance (No. 1), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Depletion Allowance (No. 2), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Ending the Beachhead of Societies of Latin America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Federal Expenditures in Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Interview with Senator Saltonstall on Report to Massachusetts, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Krushchev Name Calling, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Miscellaneous Statements - Carbon Copies of Speeches in Blk., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
National Security and International Peace, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
New Approach to Latin America's Old Problems, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
New Horizons for the Americas, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
New Insights, New Insights, New Policies, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
On Summit Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
On the Eve of the President's Departure, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Outer Mongolia and Newsmen to China, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Pan American Day, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Presentation of the Foreign Minister of Canada, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Presentation to Senator Jennings Randolph as West Virginias' Son of the Year, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
President's Address on the Summit Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
President's Eisenhower's Speech, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Press Release Concerning Election, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Press Release Cuban Sugar Quota, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Press Release Election, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Press Release from Mike Mansfield Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Questions of Mike Mansfield from the Mainichi Newspaper (Japanese), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Remarks at American Mining Congress in N.Y., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Remarks Civil Rights Cloture, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Remarks of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Shooting Down of the U.S. Plane over Russia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, British Blue Streak Cancellation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Conventions and Campaigns, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, National Security and International Peace, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, New Horizons for the Americas, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Outer Mongolia and Newsmen in China, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The 2nd German Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The Congo and Policy Towards the New Africa`, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The Deadlock at Geneva, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The Deepening Disquiet, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The State of Our Foreign Relations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Thoughts on the President's Impending Voyage to Latin America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement by Mike Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement 'Giving Kennedy What He Wants', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Mike Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement on Lee Metcalf for the Senate, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Strike in Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Congo and Policy Towards the New Africa, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Deepening Disquiet, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The President's Trip to Far East, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Reports of Rioting and Repression from Korea, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Second German Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The State of Our Foreign Relations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Summit Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Thoughts on the President's Impending Voyage to Latin America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1959
Agricultural Surpluses: Poverty in the Midst of Plenty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
American Foreign Policy - Annual Meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
A New Approach to Foreign Aid, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Annual Dinner of Alumni Association of Law School - New York - Prospects in Germany, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Budget, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Commencement - Gonzaga University - Spokane, Wash. - The German Conferences and Peace, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Committee to Study the Development and Coordination of Water Resources, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Conclusion of Khrushchev Visit, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Executive Communications, etc., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record page 12730-32 - Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The Situation in Laos, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Federal Indian Policy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Flathead Lake, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Foreign Relations: Late Summer, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Four Year Term for Congressman, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Hydroelectric Power - The Key to Montana's Future, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Ireland and the Freedom of the Americas, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Laos and Cambodia refers to UN, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Legislation to Accelerate Reforestation Program, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Memo Comments on the State of the Union Address, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Memo (dated 1959), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Memo on the President's Speech, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001