Collections – UHM Congressional Papers, Hiram Fong
Repository name: UH Mānoa Library, University Archives and Manuscript Collections, Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection
Address: 2550 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822
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MATERIALS
Source of records: MANUSCRIPT-HCPC00003: Senator Hiram L. Fong Papers
Subjects, events, etc. covered: Subjects that are especially well documented in the Fong papers include negotiations around the 1959-1960 Hawaii Omnibus Bill, which changed existing federal laws in order to accommodate to Hawaiʻi’s statehood status, including making Hawaiʻi part of the federal interstate and defense highway system; and part of the early- to mid-1970s discussions about whether Moanalua Valley (the proposed H-3 route at that time) was eligible to be included in the National Register of Historic Places. There is also some 1970s material relating to the Kāneʻohe-Kailua Flood Control Project that led to the development of Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Gardens, which in 1986 became the center of controversy around environmental exemptions for the freeway. Document types include correspondence with Hawaiʻi governors and federal, state, and local agencies; correspondence (for and against the H-3) with groups like the Construction Industry Legislative Organization, Moanalua Gardens Foundation, and Life of the Land; reports; and constituent letters.
Date range of records: 1959-1977, H-3 records are primarily 1960 and early 1970s
Volume/extent: 564 linear feet (this is the volume of the entire collection); there is about 1.25 linear feet of material relating to H-3
Restrictions, if any: Case files series is restricted (but no H-3 material in there)
Citation or location information (call number, collection number, record group, series, box, etc.) that would help a researcher request the materials:
Fong papers: Legislative files: Hawaii: Statehood: Omnibus bill, etc.
Fong papers: Legislative files: Hawaiʻi: State Government: Transportation
Fong papers: Legislative files: Transportation: Highways
Fong papers: Grants and projects: Hawaii: Various, 1970-1971: H-3 Freeway
Anything digitized already?
Parties mentioned:
- Construction Industry Legislative Organization [of Hawaiʻi]
- Executive Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget (prepared Hawaii Omnibus Bill, which included Hawaiʻi in Interstate and Defense System of Highways)
- Governor William F. Quinn
- Governor John A. Burns
- Hawaii Audubon Society
- Honolulu City Council
- Life of the Land
- Masonry Contractors Association of Hawaiʻi
- Moanalua Gardens Foundation
- Outdoor Circle
- State Attorney General Shiro Kashiwa
- State DOT, Fujio Matsuda, Director
- U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Public Roads
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- Windward Citizens’ Planning Conference