Citizens' Joint Committee on National Representation for the District of Columbia creator mixed material monographic eng 2,100 7 2.8 Correspondence and other records of the organization documenting its activities in lobbying for the passage of the 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which, in 1961, granted the citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections. Includes correspondence with members of Congress, chiefly members of the House Committee on Rules and the House Committee on the Judiciary; records of congressional hearings; publicity materials; lists of local groups backing the 23rd Amendment; and a file by state showing contacts made by the committee with leaders of the various state legislatures. Open to research. Lobbying organization formed in 1916 and composed of 30 local organizations. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011087 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules. United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. United States. 23rd Amendment. Constitutional amendments United States Presidents United States Election Suffrage Washington (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Politics and government mm 78015859 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011087 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011087.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011087 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011087.3 Open to research. DLC 790119 20260227111622.0 mm 78015859