John H. Chafee Senatorial Papers, Washington Office I (MsG. 115.2)

The Senatorial Papers of John H. Chafee (1976-1999) are divided into three sub-groups: Providence Office, Washington Office, and Multi-Media. The records of the Providence Office subgroup were transferred to the University of Rhode Island from Senator Chafee’s offices in Providence, RI. The records from the Washington Office sub-group were sent from his Washington, D.C. office. The first shipments of the Chafee Senatorial Papers were transferred to the University of Rhode Island in the Spring of 1993 and continued to arrive periodically through March of 2001. Chafee’s papers as Governor, Secretary of Navy, and for his campaigns are in Manuscript Group 114, Gubernatorial and Secretary of the Navy Papers, 1962-1975.

The senatorial papers contain 1,929 boxes of records and occupy approximately 1,088 linear feet of shelf space. The Providence Office, sub-group 1, contains 220 boxes of records and occupies 155 linear feet of shelf space. The Washington Office, sub-group 2, contains 1,642 boxes of records and occupies 873 linear feet of shelf space. Multi-Media, sub-group 3, contains 67 boxes of records and occupies 60 linear feet of shelf space.

The Washington Office, sub-group 2, records consist of memoranda, speeches, notes, bills, correspondence, publications, news articles, maps, charts, and photographs. Records also include artifacts such as campaign bumper stickers, buttons, as well as an American flag, and his office flag as Secretary of the Navy.