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Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Hugh Ike Shott Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0908
Scope and Contents The papers of Hugh Ike Shott of Bluefield, W.Va. Mr. Shott was owner and publisher of The Blue Field Telegraph and the Sunset News. He was also owner of radio stations WHIS of Bluefield, and served as postmaster in Bluefield by appointments of Presidents T. Roosevelt and Taft. He was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1928 and 1930, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. Senate for the unexpired term of M. M. Neely. Mr. Shott was also a member of the W.Va. Semi-Centennial...
Dates: 1858-1954

Izetta Jewel Brown Miller (b.1883), Clippings and Photographs

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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

James and Elizabeth Kee Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2287
Overview

Correspondence of Elizabeth Kee, who served in the House of Representatives from 1951 to 1964, and her son James, who served from 1965 to 1972. The correspondence deals entirely with welfare cases, Social Security, and veterans' problems.

Dates: 1963-1966

John M. Wolverton Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2667
Overview

Two scrapbooks kept by Congressman John M. Wolverton's Washington office, documenting his activities as West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1925-30. Subjects covered include the Republican Party and Congressional elections.

Dates: 1925-1930

John W. Davis (1873-1955) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2080
Overview

Correspondence of the 1924 Democratic presidential nominee; draft of a speech on legislative power; tickets to the Democratic National Convention in New York; and a poem concerning Davis' candidacy for president in 1924. Correspondence is between Davis and his nephew, John J.D. Preston, of Charleston. Subjects mentioned include politics, World War II, Davis' law practice, and family matters.

Dates: 1924-1943, 1953

Julia C. Polsley Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1509
Overview

Scrapbook of Julia C. Polsley, "Sunny Side," Point Pleasant, containing clippings on the career and death of her father, Daniel W. Polsley, editor of the Wellsburg TRANSCRIPT, lieutenant governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, judge of the Seventh Judicial District, and member of the Fortieth Congress.

Dates: 1879

Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates: 1828-1890, 1901, 1935

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 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), 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

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Politics and government. 17
Elections 12
Lawyers - letters and papers. 7
United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 5
Universities and colleges 5
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Judges - letters and papers. 4
United States -- Politics and government 4
West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
Diaries and journals. 3
Marion County (W. Va.) 3
Politicians -- United States 3
Railroads 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Washington (D.C.) 3
West Virginia - Governors. 3
Charleston. 2
Churches -- Methodist 2
Coal mining. 2
Democratic National Convention 2
Election of 1924. 2
Fairmont. 2
Kingwood (W. Va.) 2
Land. 2
Lumber trade 2
Maps. 2
Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
Prohibition -- United States -- History 2
Taxation 2
Transportation 2
Travel accounts. 2
Agriculture 1
Alien Property Custodian. 1
Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Baltimore Sun 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Buckhannon (W. Va.) 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Calendars 1
Camden-Davis ring 1
Canals 1
Charlottesville (Va.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Church buildings 1
Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
Churches -- West Virginia -- Upshur County 1
Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal mines and mining 1
Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Devil's Bake Oven. 1
Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
Editors - letters and papers. 1
Election of 1840. 1
Election of 1860. 1
Election of 1876. 1
Election of 1934. 1
Election of 1936. 1
Elkins (W. Va.) 1
Environmentalism. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Genealogy 1
Glass manufacture 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Harper's Weekly 1
Harrisburg (Pa.) 1
Immigration. 1
India 1
Indians of North America 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Falls. 1
Lewis County. 1
Logan County. 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missionaries 1
Missouri 1
Montana Territory 1
Monticello (Va.) 1
Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
Natural Bridge (Va.) 1
Naturalization -- United States 1
New Deal, 1933-1939 1
New York (State) 1
New York Tribune 1
Newspapers. 1
Nullification (States' rights) 1
Ohio 1
Pennsylvania 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Photography 1
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