(Photo by U.S. Senate Photographic Studio-Rebecca Hammel)
The UNM Libraries Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) received the congressional records and documents of New Mexico Senator Tom Udall who retired from Congress in January 2021.
Udall began serving as New Mexico’s 17th United States Senator in 2009, after 20 years of public service as New Mexico’s State Attorney General and U.S. Representative. As New Mexico's senior senator, he has served on the Senate Committees for Appropriations, Foreign Relations, Commerce, Indian Affairs, and Rules and Administration.
Tom Udall’s papers document his political legacy and will allow scholars and researchers to gain unique insights into U.S policy development on many critical issues such as government reform, conservation of public lands and environmentalism, and addressing the needs of underserved communities. His dedicated service is recorded through legislative research materials, introduced and passed bills, speeches, manuscripts, and audio-visual media. As with all congressional papers of recently retired members, much of his collection will remain restricted for 10 years.
This collection marks a significant addition to an already robust collection of resources for political scholarship. Senator Udall’s collection will join the Congressional papers of U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman, Harrison Schmitt, Joseph Montoya, Dennis Chávez and Clinton P. Anderson, and U.S. Representatives Manuel Lujan and Steven Schiff, among others, which are also curated by the UNM Libraries Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.
