found: NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for Sierra Club. Northwest Office. Records, 1967-1978(Thomas S. Foley; named among correspondents)
found: LC data base, 9-20-88(hdg.: Foley, Thomas S.)
found: Biggs, J.R. Honor in the House, 1999:CIP t.p. (Thomas S. Foley, Tom Foley) data sheet (b. Mar. 6, 1929)
found: Biographical directory of the United States Congress online, viewed August 3, 2012(Foley, Thomas Stephen, a Representative from Washington; born in Spokane, Wash., March 6, 1929; lawyer; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1995); Ambassador to Japan, 1997-2001)
found: New York times (online), viewed Oct. 21, 2013(in obituary published Oct. 18: Thomas S. Foley; b. Thomas Stephen Foley, Mar. 6, 1929, Spokane; d. Friday [Oct. 18, 2013], Washington, D.C., aged 84; courtly congressman from Washington State who as speaker of the House sought to still the chamber's rising tide of partisan combat before it swept the Democratic majority, and Mr. Foley himself, out of office in 1994)
