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 1969
Congressional Record S. 13650 - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 13973 - 'Drug, Gun and Obscenity', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 14011 - Fort Harrison Veterans Administration Hospital, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 14636 - Draft, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 14641 - Strengthening the Penalty Provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 14689 - Gun Ammunition, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 1540 - Gun Control Legislation - Additional Co-Sponsors of Bill, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 16447 - Tax Reform, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 3409-12 - Meet the Press, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 3823 - The Gap Between Generations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 4999 - Additional Co-Sponsors of Bills and Joint Resolution (Obscene Mail), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 535-36, Electoral Reform Aiken - Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 5804 - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 7117 - Proposed Extension of Surtax, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 849 - Introduction of Bill - Guns and Criminals, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 8571 - Gun Control and Pornography, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 8573 - Surtax and Tax Reform, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 8841-44 - Extension of Surtax, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. Res. 292 - Page 15162-64 Reduction of U.S. Forces Stationed in Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Veterans Day, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Vietnam re: Supporting the President, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - 'Washington Window' - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Withdrawal from Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Congressional Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Dinner in Honor of Senator Lister Hill, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Extension of Surtax, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Face the Nation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Five Young Montanans Disappear, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Fort Harrison Veterans Administration Hospital, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
George Aiken - Model Gardener, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Gun Control and Obscene Literature, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Intrastate Sale of Ammunition and Gun Under the Gun Control Act of 1968, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Kansas State University - A Pacific Perspective, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mansfield on Haynsworth Appointment, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Marjorie Hunter - President - Women's National Press Club, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mike's Bill - S. 412 - Lincoln Back Country Congressional Record, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Moss Appreciation Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Nomination of Judge Haynsworth, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Opportunities, Inc. and Office of Economic Opportunity, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Pollution in Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Proposed Extension of Surtax, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Remarks of Senator Mansfield in Honor of Senator Albert Gore at Democratic Rally, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Senator Robert C. Byrd - Poca, West Virginia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
S.J. Res. 166 - Relating to a Foreign Policy Reappraisal Vietnam and Beyond, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, ABM and Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, A Hold-Fast on Missile Deployment, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, A Pacific Perspective, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Gun Control and Pornography Testimony, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Mike Mansfield for The Georgetown Voice, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield - Great Falls - Browning Transmission Line, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield on S. 849, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield - Public Works Appropriation Bill - 1970, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statues of Father Damien and King Kamehameha, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Suggested Comment to be Recorded for Radio Station KSEN by Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Generation Gap and the Campus, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Horse is Still Kicking, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Legislative Record of the 91st Congress to Date, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Trip to Cambodia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vietnam - 'Senator Mansfield Answers Questions of Montanans', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1968
ABM System, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Acceptance of the Distinguished Congressional Service Award, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Appearance on Issues and Answers, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
A Time of Trouble - St. John's University - N.Y., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
A Time of Violence, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
A Time to be Stalwart, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
China: Retrospect and Prospect (publication), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
China: Retrospect and Prospect (speech), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Civil Rights, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - National Shoe Fair - New York - S. 3669-73, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record re: Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reprint S. 527-28 - The Pueblo Affair, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 1225 - Korea, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 1668-71 - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Tax Increase and Budget Reduction Proposals - Page S. 5185-86, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Death of Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Electoral Reform, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Electoral Reform, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Electoral Reform, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Establishment of Wild Horse Range in Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Explanation of Gun Laws, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Firearms Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Firearms Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Foreign Policy Association D.C. - Foreign Policy in the Coming Campaign, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Gun Control Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Gun Control Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Gun Control Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Jefferson-Whitehall Unit - Reichle Dam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Letter to President - Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Lowering the Voting Age, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Northwest Regional Services Corporation Act, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Potato Chip Institute International Conference, Two Faces of Violence, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Prediction about the 1968 Convention, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Pueblo, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001