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Conventions

USJB General Conventions, also known as, Congresses.

Materials include reports of officers, programs for social events during the convention, minutes of meetings, etc.
The Preliminary Congress was held in 1899 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the First Congress or General Convention was also held in
Woonsocket one year later in 1900.

The conventions continued on a biennial basis through 1986, and occasional Special Convention being held in off years.
French is the language for the majority of these materials.

Names	Date	Location
Preliminary General Convention	1899	Woonsocket, Rhode Island
First General Convention	1900	Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Second General Convention	1902	Southbridge, Massachusetts
Third General Convention	1904	Willimantic, Connecticut
Fourth General Convention	1906	Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Fifth General Convention	1908	Holyoke, Massachusetts
Sixth General Convention	1910	Manchester, New Hampshire
Eleventh General Convention	1925	Holyoke, Massachusetts
Thirteenth General Convention	1933	Hartford, Connecticut
Fourteenth General Convention	1937	Salem, Massachusetts
Fifteenth General Convention	1941	Boston, Massachusetts
Sixteenth General Convention	1946	Worcester, Massachusetts
Seventeenth General Convention and Golden Jubilee	1950	Boston, Massachusetts
Eighteenth General Convention	1954	Springfield, Massachusetts
Nineteenth General Convention	1958	Hartford, Connecticut
Twentieth General Convention	1962	Portland, Maine
Special Convention to Reorganize the Insurance System	1963	Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Twenty-first General Convention	1966	Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts
Twenty-second General Convention	1968	Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Twenty-third General Convention	1970	Providence, Rhode Island
Special Convention, The Challenge of Tomorrow	1971	Auburn, Massachusetts
Twenty-fourth General Convention	1972	Chicopee, Massachusetts
Twenty-fifth General Convention	1974	Chicopee, Massachusetts
Twenty-seventh General Convention	1978	Burlington, Vermont
Twenty-eighth General Convention	1982	Providence, Rhode Island
Twenty-ninth General Convention	1986	Nashua, New Hampshire