Election, 1840-1972 and undated

Correspondence, sample ballots, broadsides, publications, constitutions, and certificates documenting or discussing party polities and platforms; national and state political conventions; election results and expenses; candidate endorsements; political campaigns, in particular the presidential campaign of Wendell Wilkie; election district boundaries; Communist Party activities in Maryland and the District of Columbia; and the certification of the election of various officials. Among the political figures mentioned in the documents are John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Wendell Wilkie, Morris Soper, Benjamin C. Howard, Phillips Lee Goldsborough, and Reverdy Johnson.