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 1952
Speech of Congressman Mike Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement by Senator Mike Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1951
Aid to Western Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Bar Association - The Foreign Policy of U.S., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Buffalo Foreign Policy Association Union of Buffalo, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Insert, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reports on Project Developments in Western Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 1 - The Proposed Aluminum Industry for Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike Mansfield - Delegate in Committee II on Economic Development of Underdeveloped Countries, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike Mansfield - U.S. Representative in Committee on the New Soviet Item, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Panama, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Mike Mansfield on the Far East and Pacific Ocean Area - Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statements by Mike Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
St. Patrick's in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1950
American Policy in the Far East, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Campaign Speech, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Collective Security Through the United Nations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reports on Project Developments in Western Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The New Social Security Law, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic State Convention, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Foreign Affairs Committee - Atlantic Treaty, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Hearings Before Foreign Affairs on H.R. 7378, EC, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
International Policy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike Mansfield - Hungry Horse Bill H.R. 3570, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Our China Policy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Radio Script, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Socialized Medicine - Campaign, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Summary of Foreign Aid Policies, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Technical Assistance - Egypt, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Technical Assistance - Peru, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Answers to the Fourteen Unanswered Questions, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Time is Now, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
War in Korea, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1949
Brannan Farm Plan, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Information, Please, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Decline Offer of Assistant Secretary of State, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike's Report on Europe - A Survey of Political Economic Developments During 1949 in Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1948
Campaign, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic National Convention at Philadelphia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Income Tax Reduction Bill, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike Mansfield - Campaign Speech for Reelection, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Radio Script, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Radio Script, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speech, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
St. Patrick's Day - Pittsburgh, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1947
Speech before the Montana State University Alumni Association - The Dem6cratzation of Japan, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speech on Japan for Members of the Foreign Policy Association, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement by Senator Mike Mansfield - Far East and Japanese Mandates in Pacific, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Taft-Hartley Act, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Chinese Policy of the United States, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The United States and the United Nations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1946
Campaign Speeches, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Hungry Horse Dam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Knowles Plan, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike Mansfield - Speech for Re-election, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
South Korea, Brilliant Campaign, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1945
China and Her Problems, Military and-Political, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reprint - My Views on the Present Discharge Policies of the Army and Navy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressman Mike Mansfield - Far East Trip, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Japan after Surrender, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Japan and Russia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Radio Script, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Resignation of General Patrick Hurley, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Japanese Mandated Islands, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Pacific and the Far East, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Philippines, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Soviet Union and China, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The United States and China, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1944
Great Falls, Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Pacific Danger, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Talk over NBC by Congressman Mike Mansfield: China: A Key to Victory, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1943
Beaver Creek Park, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
China and the Far East, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
KGIR Radio Script, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
What are we going to do about the Pacific, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1942
Butte - Democracy and the War, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Campaign Speech, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Filing for Congressional Seat, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Japan's Economy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Testimony of Major Speigelberg before Foreign Affairs Committee, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1941
Our Bill of Rights, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1940
Democratic Dinner re: Democracy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Honoring Deceased Members of Fraternal Order of Elks Lodge, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Northwestern Montana - Foreign Affairs, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Radio Script, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Future of Democracy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1939
Address of Welcome to State Commander Jack Boorman - V.F.W. - Missoula, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democracy and Peace, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Jefferson Dinner Democratic Party, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Kalispell - Disabled Veterans in America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Kalispell - Pioneer Picnic, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Labor - Collective Bargaining, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Labor Day - Professor Mansfield Stresses Labor-Business Cooperation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Labor Day Speech in Butte, Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Libby re: Organized Labor, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
New Citizens Day Address - KGVO, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Silver Bow Council - Butte, Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
VFW and Auxiliary 25th Anniversary of the Auxiliary, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001