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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
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
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- Subject: United States -- Politics and government X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 21
- United States -- Politics and government 21
- Politicians -- United States 20
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 14
- Politicians 9
- Elections 7
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 7
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 6
- Judges -- West Virginia 5
- West Virginia - Governors. 5
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
- 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
- Camden-Davis ring 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
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 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
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