Republican senator John Kyl has announced that he will be donating his entire congressional documents of 26 years to University of Arizona.

Kyl has served in the U.S. Senate for 18 years and is currently serving his third and final term at the Senate.

The documents acquired by the university are Kyl's congressional papers which documented his career spanning over two decades. They include biographical material, speeches, committee files, hearings and reports, press releases, photographs and correspondence.

Along with these official documents, Kyl is also donating the documents which he used to prepare for a campaign debate, Hispanic Business.com reports.

Special Collections at the University Libraries, which maintains collections of rare books and unique archival materials that make possible in-depth research on selected topics, will be housing the documents.

"It is an honor for us to host this historic collection, which will be a vital resource to historians and students of American politics for years to come," said Andrew C. Comrie, UA's senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.

Kyl, a UA alumnus, earned a bachelor's degree in 1964 and went on to graduate from the UA's James E. Rogers College of Law in 1966. His wife too is an alumnus of the university, earning a nursing degree.

"Both of us have really desired to do more for the University than we have been able to," he said, referring to his wife.

"It seemed to me as a UA alum that one of the best things I could do for my University was to provide the public documents, papers, records, memorabilia and other things gathered over a 46-year history of service to the University of Arizona to be archived here," he said.

The documents will come from Kyl's offices in Washington, D.C. and Arizona, adding to the UA's new Congressional Archives Room. According to Hispanic Business, the first part of the collection will arrive in December and include documents that have already been made public. The second part will arrive sometime in the future and feature more sensitive information.