United States. Congress. Senate
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview
A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates:
1914-1919
William Hereford McGinnis Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0855
Overview
The personal business papers of William Hereford McGinnis (1855-1930), a Beckley lawyer who was prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County, 1892-1896, a senator in 1902, judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 1922-1924, chairman for a number of years of the executive committee of the Democratic Party in Raleigh County, and delegate to the national convention in 1920. There are case papers, correspondence and other records of the Hatcher-McGinnis Law Firm, 1834-1930; family photographs; and...
Dates:
1834-1954
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- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Beckley (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1 + ∧ less
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