Manuscript Group 449
HARRY SEYLER PAPERS
1946-1980
60 cubic feet
Harry Seyler was a noted York area politician, serving as a member of the Pennsylvania
General Assembly from 1948 to 1962. Born in York in 1908, Seyler earned an M.A.
at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He taught social
studies in York City schools before becoming principal and later assistant superintendent.
Seyler served in the army in World War II. He was elected to the State House of
Representatives in 1948, and served three terms (1948-54). In 1954, he took over
George Leader's vacant seat in the State Senate, serving from 1954 to 1962. While
a member of the General Assembly, Seyler served on various committees including
the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth, the Governor's Committee on Education,
the Commission on Public Libraries, the DPI Planning Committee for Public School
Adult Education, and the Advisory Committee on Standards to the State Council
of Education. He was also appointed a delegate to the White House Conference on
Education in 1956 and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1956.
The high point in his political career was fighting a bill requiring citizens
to swear a loyalty oath. Later, Seyler was employed in the Philadelphia office
of the OEO, and then as Sunday managing editor of the York Gazette and Daily.
He was also a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and an actor at York
Little Theatre where he performed in more than fifty plays. Seyler died on January
23,1994, in York.
The papers contain legislative and miscellaneous files of Harry E. Seyler. Materials include:
Annual Reports
Committee Files
Correspondence
Constituent Information Card Files
Loyalty Oath Files, 1951-1961
Miscellaneous Senate Files
Miscellaneous Legislative Files and Senate Materials
Newsletters
Newspaper Clippings, 1954-1957
Pamphlets
Pictures
Presidential Election and Political Campaign Materials
Press Releases
Publications
Reports of State Departments
Reports to and from State Agencies
Senate and House Bills, 1960s
Subject files
Travel Materials
University Term Papers, 1946-1956
As of October 2009, this collection remains unprocessed.
Political and Related Papers, 1946-1980. (60 cartons) {#449m.1}
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