cover Gill's two years in Congress and four years in the Hawaii Lt. Governor's office. The collection is rich in material documenting his enthusiastic political life and his concerns about nuclear power; the environment; land development, especially on the Big Island of Hawaii; social and economic justice; and the high cost of living in Hawaii. There is a smaller amount of material from his pre- and post-Congressional life. The papers are arranged in five series: Political Offices (held by Gill), 1955–1970; Politics (Democratic Party, Hawaii and National), 1952–1972; Personal (election campaigns and biographical material), 1939–2001; Memorabilia (mostly election campaigns), 1940–2005 and bulk 1958–1980; Audiovisual (audiotapes, films, photographs; primarily election campaigns and Big Island development), 1958–1974. The papers were arranged and described from July 2005 through March 2006 by archivist Ellen Chapman, and are available to researchers in the Library's Archives & Manuscripts Department by appointment. A Finding Aid, which provides a timeline, series descriptions, and list of specific topics covered in the collection is available at The Thomas P. Gill Papers web site. Personal life Gill was the son of Thomas Gill (born in New York in 1870) and Lorin Johnston Tarr (born in Kansas in 1889), and the grandson of Dr. Charles Robert Gill (born in New York in 1821) and María Dolores Ponce de León (born in Cuba in 1834 to Cuban parents). Gill married Lois Hanawalt in 1947 and had six children, including two sons who have been involved in Hawaiian politics. His son Gary served on the Honolulu City Council and son Tony is a labor lawyer who considered seeking the governorship in 2006. Gill died in 2009 in Honolulu, aged 87. See also List of minority governors and lieutenant governors in the United States List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress References External links Honolulu Star-Bulletin article on role in 1964 Civil Rights Act |- |- 1922 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American politicians United States Army personnel of World War II American politicians of Cuban descent Hispanic and Latino American members of the United States Congress Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Hawaii Hawaii lawyers Lieutenant Governors of Hawaii Democratic Party members of the Hawaii House of Representatives Members of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature Politicians from Honolulu President Theodore Roosevelt High School alumni UC Berkeley School of Law alumni 20th-century American lawyers United States Army soldiers