United States. Congress. Senate
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Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1028
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and other papers of politician and industrialist Henry Gassaway Davis (November 16, 1823 - March 11, 1916), a Democrat who served in the West Virginia Legislature, 1866-1871, and the U.S. Senate, 1871-1883. Davis was also the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1904. A reel of microfilm includes two private account books (1867-1915) and a letter book (1898-1916), which mentions several state and national Democratic leaders including Stephen B. Elkins and John T. McGraw....
Dates:
1867-1916
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
Izetta Jewel Brown Miller (b.1883), Clippings and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2316
Overview
Originals and copies of clippings and photographs concerning the life and career of Izetta Jewel Kenny Brown Miller. Her career included work in the theater, Women's Suffrage Movement, radio, agriculture, television, and politics. Her first husband was William Gay Brown, Sr., West Virginia Congressman from Kingwood, and her second marriage was to Dr. Hugh Miller of the faculties of George Washington University and Union College. In 1922 and 1924, Mrs. Brown ran for the nomination as the...
Dates:
ca. 1908-1973
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (1912-1962), Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1580
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia Republican chairman, U.S. senator (serving in 1958), and member of the 1960 Republican National Convention platform committee.Subjects include: West Virginia and national Republican politics, 1956-1961; the 1958 Congressional election; the 1960 presidential campaign; the State Chamber of Commerce; State Economic Development Agency; Ohio Valley Improvement Association; and West Virginia University....
Dates:
1956-1962
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1414
Scope and Contents
Papers of Matthew Neely, a politician who had a long career as senator, congressman, governor, and Democratic political boss. Collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, legal papers, photographs, and copies of the Congressional Record . There are also newspaper clipping scrapbooks covering the years 1928-1954 (on five reels of microfilm). Neely had a long career, including law student at West Virginia University, Marion County lawyer, mayor of Fairmont, congressman, 1913-1921,...
Dates:
1900-1954
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1353
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings on Neely's controversy as a law student at WVU, and his subsequent career as a lawyer, Mayor of Fairmont, Congressman, and United States Senator.
Dates:
1900-1924
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1384
Scope and Contents
The two volumes of newspaper clippings cover the years 1913-1916, and 1922-1927 and are concerned with Neely's activities as Congressman and Senator, including his abortive attempt to have Judge A. G. Dayton impeached. There are also two volumes of speeches (clippings from the Congressional Record) for years 1926-1928, and 1931-1932.
Dates:
1913-1932
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958) Vest
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3753
Overview
Vest owned by West Virginia politician Matthew M. Neely around the age of 22 years.
Dates:
1896
Miscellaneous Coal Strike Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0960
Scope and Contents
A collection of official records of the coal strikes in Kanawha, Boone, Fayette, and Raleigh counties in 1912 and 1913, including transcripts of proceedings of General Court Martial, and Military Commission; briefs of Kanawha County Circuit Court, and WV Supreme Court appeal cases, and court Record of the Provost Marshal listing prisoner's name, charge, date of trial, and remarks; witness and prisoner lists; general orders; summons, and warrants. There are also proclamations by Governor...
Dates:
1912-1914
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- Politics and government. 32
- United States -- Politics and government 21
- Politicians -- United States 20
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 14
- Elections 11
- Politicians 9
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 8
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 7
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 6
- West Virginia - Governors. 6
- Judges -- West Virginia 5
- Coal mining. 4
- New Deal, 1933-1939 4
- Railroads 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
- Account books 3
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 3
- Land. 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 3
- Secession 3
- Universities and colleges 3
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Charleston. 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - 1912 and 1913. 2
- Diaries 2
- Drugs and druggists. 2
- Education 2
- Europe 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 2
- Petroleum industry and trade 2
- Physicians - letters and papers. 2
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Transportation 2
- Unions. 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Washington (D.C.) 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Agriculture 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- American ginseng 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Beckley (W. Va.) 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Camden-Davis ring 1
- Camp of Instruction (Richmond, Va.) 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic, American missions 1
- Cincinnati (Ohio) 1
- Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Democratic National Convention 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Economics 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- England 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Flags 1
- France 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Fur trade 1
- General stores 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Health services. 1 + ∧ less
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