United States. Congress. Senate
Organization
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous Coal Strike Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1383
Scope and Contents
Records of the U.S. Senate, Record Group 46, consisting of documents from hearings before the Committee on Education and Labor relating to conditions in the Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia, June 2-September 13, 1913. Includes microfilm and paper facsimiles.
Dates:
1912-1913
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
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
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
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
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
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
President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), Typescript Copies of Letters to Senator Stephen B. Elkins
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0157
Overview
Typescript copies of forty letters from U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to Senator Stephen B. Elkins from 1886 to 1900. Topics are primarily personal in nature and include trips, family news, weather, and social activities. Harrison also comments briefly on Elkins' election to the Senate in 1894, political appointments, and Indiana politics in the late 1890s.
Dates:
1886-1900
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
Samuel Price, Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3239
Overview
Includes both transcriptions and photocopies of original manuscripts of Samuel Price's 1828 law license and an 1879 life history from his birth through 1866. Also included are transcriptions of newspaper articles and letters concerning Price's life and death, and his funeral service. Samuel Price was born July 28, 1805. He served as Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was president of the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in 1872, which framed the present day...
Dates:
1828, 1874, 1879, 1884
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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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