Research

Scope and Content Note

The records in this series were compiled by Secretary to the Governor, Jonathan Bingham, and Executive Assistant to the Counsel, Milton D. Stewart, who worked in the administration of Governor W. Averell Harriman. The series documents the work of the Governor's staff to assess and gain support for the proposed Constitutional Convention. It contains reports, studies, hearing notes, and meeting minutes of the Temporary State Commission on the Constitutional Convention as well as fact sheets, newspaper clippings, copies of Democratic and Republican policy statements, bibliographies, pamphlets and brochures, correspondence, memoranda, copies of radio broadcast scripts, proposed legislation and printed materials. Also included are press releases of the New York State Committee for a Constitutional Convention.