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The nine scrapbooks of newspaper clippings in this series provide very thorough coverage of Simpson's role in New York politics from 1937-1940. They focus on the "Fusion" candidates in the New York City mayoral election of 1937, Fiorello LaGuardia and Thomas Dewey, the growing power struggle within the New York State Republican Party, and Simpson's split with the party's majority over Dewey's candidacy for the presidential nomination in 1940. The scrapbooks also document the Wilkie campaign and Simpson's own election to Congress in 1940. The original scrapbooks were microfilmed in 1981 and 2002 and the fragile originals discarded.