HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG3746.AM: Wallace (Wally) M. Barnett, Jr., 1931-2016
Papers: 1971-1975
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Neb.: State Senator (26th District)
Size: 4.5 cu.ft.; 5 boxes
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Wallace (Wally) M. Barnett, Jr., was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1931 to Wallace M. and Rosemarie (Varous) Barnett. He graduated form Lincoln High School and attended the University of Nebraska and various continuing education schools in Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. He served as an officer in the Lincoln Fire Department and was appointed Assistant State Fire Marshall. He was elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970 and again in 1974, serving the 26th District, Lincoln, Nebraska. During his tenure in the State Legislature, Barnett’s main concerns were juvenile justice procedures, women’s rights, improved highway safety efforts, and improved state mental institutions. After his retirement from the legislature, Barnett accepted the position of State Fire Marshall. Wallace M. Barnett, Jr., died in Lincoln on March 18, 2016. He is buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Lincoln, Nebraska.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection consists of five boxes of manuscript material arranged in three subgroups: (1) Legislative files: 82nd Legislature, 1971-1972; (2) Legislative files: 83rd Legislature, 1973-1974 and (3) Legislative files: 84th Legislature, 1975-1976. The records of the 82nd Legislature include topical files and legislative bill and resolution files. The records of the 83rd Legislature include topical files, legislative bill and resolution files, and general correspondence. The only single series for the 84th Legislature contains correspondence, 1975. This material relates to part of Wallace (Wally) M. Barnett’s tenure in the Nebraska State Legislature, covering the years, 1971-1975.
INVENTORY
Subgroup 1: 82nd Legislature, 1971-1972
Series 1 – Topical Files
Box 1
Folder
- Abortions
- Appointments (Yes)
- Appointments (No)
- Attorney General’s Opinions
- Birth Control Legislation
- Budget Committee Rule Change
- Line Organization Resulting from Sen. Barnett’s Amendment to Budget Com.
- Listing of Candidates for the Primary Election and Delegates
- Cigarette Tax Information
- The City – County Merger
- Crime Commission
- Revision of the Criminal Code
- Council of State Governments and National Legislative Conference
- Education
- Twelve Month School Program (45-15) Plan – Education
- General Fund Appropriations for Nebraska Colleges
- Educational Accountability
- Fire Marshal
- Film – A Day in the Life of a Fireman
- Gun Laws – Statutes and Laws
- Hruska and Barnett Pictures
- Irrigation Bills – Nebraska State Irrigation Assoc.
- L.E.A.A. — Ferrara is the nominee for this
- Lincoln Flood Plain Regulation
- Lincoln Public Schools & Education Programs
- Mental Retardation
Box 2
Folder
- Miscellaneous
- Motor Vehicle Board & Highway Safety
- Lynne Webster – Population Ins.
- Population
- Department of Roads-Doyle
- Rules and Regulations Comm.
- S-U-N Project
- Guidelines for Student Press – Daily Nebraskan
- Welfare
- Women Under the Law Subcommittee
Series 2 – Legislative Bills and Resolutions
- LB 1196 Mini-bikes (Licensing)
- LB 1216 Orange Law – Hunters
- LB 1271 Student Fees
- LB 1326 Education Accountability Bill
- LB 1093 Merit System for Sheriffs
- LB 1094 Exempting First Hitch Servicemen
- LB 1096 Venereal Disease
- LB 1095 Breath Tests for Drivers
- LB 1097 Real Estate – Security Dept.
- LB 1098 Prohibit Administering Narcotics, Etc.
- LB 1129 Redistricting Proposal
- LB 1377 State Aid to Education
- Bill Testimonies
- Resolution #10
- LR 56 DeCamp’s Bribe
- Resolution 58
- Resolution – Railroad Crossing
- 1972 Resolutions – City Council Resolutions – Railway Comm.
- Future Legislation
- 1972 Interim Study Reports
- Other Bill Correspondence
Subgroup 2: 83rd Legislature, 1973-1974
Series 1 – Topical Files
Box 3
Folder
- Abortion
- Committee on Committees
- Attorney General Opinions
- Banking
- Budget
- Budget Amendment
- Child Labor Laws
- City of Lincoln, Nebr.
- Committee on Committees
- Contraception Law
- Criminal Code Provision
- D.C. Trip
- Doctors File
- Drugs
- Drunk Driving Penalties
- EHA Advisory Committee Members
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Future Legislation
- Fire Related
- Gateway Manor
- Governor’s Highway Safety Conference
- Housing
- Information
- Lincoln Technical College
- Majority Age
- Mental Retardation
- Miscellaneous
- No-Fault
- Ombudsman Form Letters
- Ombudsman
- Ombudsman Return Answers
- Pay Plan
- Penal Reform
- Personal
- Pollution
- RR Crossing – 56th & X Streets
- Railroad Transportation District
- Sex Education
- State Employees Conditions
- State Troopers
- State Patrol
- Sun Newspaper File
- Traffic Fatalities
- Traffic Fire Safety
- Trailer File
- Transportation & Commerce Committee
- University of Nebraska
- Veterans Affairs
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Voter Lists
Series 2 – Legislative Bills and Resolutions
Box 4
Folder
- LB 9 Partisan Legislature
- LB 45 Rules of the Road Resolution – Resolution 30
- LB 45 Rule of the Road
- LB 65 Public School
- LB 96
- LB 67 Anatomical Gifts
- LB 100 State Institutions
- LB 114
- LB 144 Grade Crossing Protection Fund
- LB 147 State Patrolman
- LB 149 Ag College
- LB 162 Court Reporters Salaries
- LB 185
- LB 194
- LB 220 Service Officers
- LB 249 Insurance Fireman’s Bill
- LB 255
- LB 262 Fire Discrimination Act
- LB 275
- LB 293 Tenant Act
- LB 294 Revenue and Taxation
- LB 305
- LB 437 Financial Responsibility
- LB 448 Lincoln CC Election
- LB 514 Mandatory Use of Seat Belts
- LB 820 No-Fault Divorce
- Other Bill Correspondence
Series 3 – General Correspondence
- A-Z Correspondence
- General Correspondence, 1973
Box 5
Folder
- Schoolchildren’s Correspondence, 1974
Subgroup 3: 84th Legislature, 1975-1976
Series 1 – General Correspondence
- Correspondence, 1975, Jan.-Mar.
- Correspondence, 1975, Apr.-Dec.
Subject headings:
Barnett, Wallace M., Jr., 1931-2016
Legislation — Nebraska
Nebraska — Politics and government
Nebraska. Legislature, 1971-1976
Politics — Nebraska
Revised TMM 04-04-2008; 05-07-2018
