Margaret Hance Papers

The Margaret Hance Papers contain notes, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, speeches, reports, articles, press releases, rosters, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter dating from 1971 to 1990 describing Hance's career as a public servant and political organizer.

Series I: City of Phoenix contains notes, correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, rosters, photographs and printed matter dating from Hance's tenure in city government. These materials date from 1972 to 1983 and are divided into three subseries: Sub-Series A: Parks and Recreation, Sub-Series B: City Council, and Sub-Series C: Office of the Mayor.

Sub-Series A: Parks and Recreation contains Margaret Hance's board correspondence from the year 1972. Sub-Series B: City Council dates from 1973 to 1976 and contains correspondence, speeches, rosters, photographs, printed matter, and subject files documenting Hance's Council membership prior to her tenure as acting mayor. Sub-Series C: Office of the Mayor contains notes, correspondence, memoranda, articles, rosters, photographs, and printed matter showing Hance's tenure as Acting Mayor and her elective terms as Mayor. The information in this subseries dates from 1973 to 1983. It is divided into two parts, Sub-Sub-Series i: Mayoral Records and Sub-Sub-Series ii: National League of Cities.

Of particular interest are Box 2, Folder 13 (which houses Mayor Hance's analysis of her major accomplishments while in office); Public Appearance Correspondence (a grouping of folders, composed monthly, documenting Mayor Hance's attendance at ceremonies and visits to organization meetings); Box 10, Folder 7 (which contains Hance's testimony before a federal Task Force on State and Local Government); and Box 12, Folder 9 (which houses speeches delivered before the National League of Cities).

Series II: Republican Politics contains correspondence, memoranda, speeches, photographs, and printed matter documenting Hance's state party activities and presidential campaign management. These materials date from 1983 to 1990 and are divided into two subseries: Sub-Series A: Arizona Republican Party and Sub-Series B: Reagan and Bush Presidential Campaigns. Of particular interest is Box 13, Folder 2, which contains correspondence with Richard S. Williamson, President Reagan's special assistant on intergovernmental affairs.

Series III: Miscellaneous Subjects contains personal and unofficial correspondence, speeches, press releases, drawings, and photographs dating from 1971 to 1989. Of particular interest are Box 4, Folder 11 (which houses material about a guest on one of Hance's radio travelogue productions) and Box 24, Folders 1-34 (which contain political cartoons by Reg Manning and Bert Whitman).

Series IV: Scrapbooks and Plaques documents Hance's Mayoral Office in 1979 and a religious meeting in 1976.