Political Consultant

Materials concerning Frederick T. Steeper's work as a Michigan-based political analyst and career in survey research and analysis for Republican Presidential, senatorial, and gubernatorial candidates and campaign organizations. The collection contains materials related to Steeper's work for the Republican National Committee, George H.W. Bush's 1992 and 1996 Presidential campaigns, George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 Presidential campaigns, and various state campaigns.

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Frederick T. Steeper is a nationally recognized expert in electoral research and political behavior. He also designed testing research in the areas of polling, focus groups, and political advertisements in more than 100 U.S. Senate and gubernatorial campaigns.

Mr. Steeper directed polling programs for President Richard Nixon in 1972 and President Gerald Ford in 1976 and served as the senior polling consultant for the George H. W. Bush Presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. Most recently, he served as one of the two principal focus group and polling consultants for the George W. Bush Presidential campaign in 2000.

During his career, Mr. Steeper also worked at the University of Michigan Survey and Research Center, Market Opinion Research, and Electoral Politics Research and Consulting Group.

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41 linear feet (ca. 75,000 pages)

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Textual
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Frederick T. Steeper (accession 2009-NLF-030)

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Personal Papers
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Copyright

Frederick T. Steeper donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.

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Tim Holtz, September 2015