Skip to main content

United States. Congress. Senate

 Organization

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0213
Overview Correspondence, letter books, newspapers, pamphlets, and papers on suits that were tried before Judge Nathan Goff (1843-1920) while he was serving as a U.S. District Attorney and a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court. Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919). The majority of the...
Dates: ca. 1866-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0953
Overview

Negative photostats of letters of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920), as Secretary of the Navy, to President Rutherford B. Hayes. Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919).

Dates: 1880-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1940
Overview Professional correspondence, newspaper clipping, manuscript notes, and speech of West Virginia politician Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919). The letters and telegram are in a series written in August, 1876; correspondents are Nathan Goff...
Dates: 1876-1891, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872) Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0018
Overview Letter from 1842 authored by Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872) regarding business and political matters. Van Winkle was a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862, legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises. Contains original manuscript and typescript copy of a...
Dates: 1842
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872), Letter and Receipt for Stock

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0142
Overview Four page letter, and receipt for stock, of Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872), a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862, legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises. The four page manuscript letter with envelope is from Van Winkle, Baltimore, Maryland, to George O....
Dates: 1854-1855
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0136
Overview Personal papers and scrapbooks of Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872), a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862, legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises. Includes manuscripts speeches, essays, correspondence, and three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings....
Dates: 1827-1902, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates: 1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1361
Overview

Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), one of the founders of West Virginia. This collection includes letters to Harrison Hagans outlining the varied nature of opposition to the New State in Congress and Willey's position on slavery; letter from the Quartermaster General requesting support of a reorganization bill; cards and social invitations; and obituary clippings.

Dates: 1862-1900
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Willey Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates: 1820-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Filtered By

  • Subject: Politicians X

Additional filters:

Subject
West Virginia -- Politics and government 12
Politicians 9
Elections 7
West Virginia - Politics and government. 7
United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 6
∨ more
Judges -- West Virginia 5
West Virginia - Governors. 5
Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
Marion County (W. Va.) 3
New Deal, 1933-1939 3
Railroads 3
Secession 3
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Account books 2
Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
Coal mining. 2
Diaries 2
Fairmont. 2
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 2
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
Coal mines and mining 1
Coal mining - Medical care. 1
Coal mining - coal companies. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
Economics 1
Education 1
Farms and farming. 1
Flags 1
Guffey Coal Act. 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
Lewis County. 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Northwestern Turnpike. 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Political campaigns 1
Public utilities 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Scrapbooks 1
Social Security -- United States 1
Steamboats 1
Taxation 1
Temperance 1
Union names. 1
Unions. 1
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
United States - Social Security. 1
United States -- National Guard 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
West Virginia - Semi-Centennial. 1
West Virginia - politics. 1
Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
+ ∧ less