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Containing over two million pages, the Claude Pepper Papers includes his official correspondence, speeches, legislative, committee, and campaign files. In addition, there are files of his personal correspondence, speeches, photographs, recordings, and memorabilia. Also included are the personal papers, photographs, recordings, and memorabilia of his wife, Mildred Irene Webster Pepper. Mrs. Pepper always took a deep interest in public affairs and in helping her husband in his political career. She vigorously supported medical research, urban beautification, conservation, and actively participated in charitable and humanitarian organizations. There are also personal papers of the Pepper/Webster family, largely consisting of correspondence from parents, brothers, sisters, and other family members.

The collection was given by Reubin O'Donovan Askew in 2008. It contains materials related to his time serving in the Florida House of Representatives, Florida State Senate, and as Governor of Florida.  Included in the collection are campaign files, correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs, audiovisual materials, memorabilia, and copies of speeches. Additionally, there are records documenting his 1988 Presidential bid, as well as other materials relating to his life after his service as a Florida public official. Also included in the collection are the personal papers of his wife, Donna Lou Harper Askew.

The Rogers Family Papers contain correspondence, speeches, ephemera, photographs, newspaper clippings and publications from 1930 to 1992 documenting Dwight L. Rogers, his family, and his career in the Florida House of Representatives as well as the United States Congress. Ephemera include political promotional flyers for the election of Paul Grant Rogers, son of Dwight L. Rogers, to the United States Congress. Correspondence includes a letter to Florence Roberts Rogers, wife of Dwight L. Rogers, from the Fort Lauderdale Park Methodist church. Publications include pamphlets from Broward County social clubs.

The Thomas LeRoy Collins Papers, 1903-1991, largely document this Florida statesman's post-Gubernatorial career (1961-1991). While these materials are predominantly from this period, there are also files from his earlier years as Florida Representative, Florida Senator, and Florida Governor.