United States. Congress
Organization
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Phyllis Temple Stealey Williams Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3202
Overview
Four scrapbooks of Phyllis Temple Williams nee Stealey of Clarksburg who was an administrative assistant and secretary to nine term U.S. Congressman Cleveland M. Bailey (Democrat, West Virginia) from 1955 to 1963. Includes photographs, postcards, programs, invitations, news clippings and newspapers about: political conventions; elections; inaugurations; World War II; the Stealey family; charitable and campaign fundraisers; and a trip to Italy, Switzerland, France and Great Britain. Three of...
Dates:
1925-1962
Robert L. Ramsay (1877-1956) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0969
Overview
Bound volumes of speeches, bills, and correspondence, 1941-1952, of Robert L. Ramsay while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the first congressional district of West Virginia.
Dates:
1932-1952
Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgiss Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1899
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and other material of Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgis(s) and her son, George C. Sturgiss, a Morgantown businessman and politician. There are 130 letters, 6 WVU literary society and commencement announcements (1870-77), and an engagement book used by George C. and Charlotte Kent Sturgiss for 1907-1909.Subjects include the activities of Alfred Gallentin Sturgiss, a Methodist Episcopal minister in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1845 (towns...
Dates:
1838-1896, 1907-1909
Thomas Beall Davis, Businessman and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3197
Overview
Correspondence of businessman and politician Thomas Beall Davis (1828-1911), brother of Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916). Most of the letters and telegrams concern the lobbying efforts of individuals and organizations to influence Davis when he filled an unexpired term in the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress (June 6, 1905-March 3, 1907). There are many requests for appointments, discharges, and pensions. Also lobbying requests for interstate commerce requiring subsidies or...
Dates:
1896-1913
West Virginia Congressmen, Biographical Sketches
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2295
Overview
A collection of biographical sketches written by West Virginia Representatives and Senators for inclusion in the 1859 and 1869 editions of Charles Lanman's "Dictionary of the United States Congress", as well as correspondence and photographs. Congressmen represented in this collection include William Armstrong, Jacob Blair, Arthur I. Boreman, Alexander Boteler, William Gay Brown, John S. Carlile, Sherrard Clemens, Isaac Duval, C.D. Hubbard, A. G. Jenkins, Zedekiah Kidwell, B.M. Kitchen,...
Dates:
1835-1869, 1971
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates:
1862-1900
William Reynolds Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0048
Overview
Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and...
Dates:
May-July, 1841
William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates:
ca. 1830-1950
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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
- 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
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