Democratic Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur B. Koontz (1885-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1912
Overview
Photographs, correspondence, telegrams, and memorabilia of a corporation lawyer, banker, businessman, Democratic candidate for governor in 1920 and the U.S. Senate in 1934, a Democratic National Committeeman, 1940-1958, a member of West Virginia University's Board of Governors, and holder of the Order of Vandalia for service to West Virginia University. Subjects include the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Convention and campaign of 1956, and Koontz's bequests to colleges and...
Dates:
1907-1964
Charles W. Osenton (b.1865) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1215
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers, of a state senate minority leader, 1899-1901, prominent Fayette County lawyer, and Democratic committeeman. Subjects include Osenton's early life; his law training at Georgetown University; his election to the state senate as a "silver" Democrat; William Jennings Bryan's tour of West Virginia, 1908; the presidential election of 1908; and Champ Clark's battle for the Democratic nomination, 1912. The papers also include a collection of...
Dates:
ca. 1847-1920
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview
Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates:
1895-1920
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
Gray Silver (1870-1935), Agriculturalist and Banker, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0164
Overview
Personal and business papers of the Martinsburg agriculturalist and banker who was a representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington and a member of the West Virginia Senate, 1907-1913. Much of the material relates to fruit growing and marketing and other business activities of Silver, as well as Democrat politics. Subjects covered include: requests and discussions of the merits of political appointments; lobbying within and through the Democrat Party for agricultural...
Dates:
1903-1935
Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3143
Overview
Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. Includes typescripts, clippings, printed materials, and correspondence regarding U.S. Senate voting and campaigning; the Senate Judiciary Committee; correspondence with Federal government agencies, various individuals, and West Virginia state agencies; Senate legislation on a variety of topics, including appropriation, education, health, and housing; various West Virginia subjects and individuals; Kilgore's speeches, press...
Dates:
ca. 1927-1956, undated
Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0967
Scope and Contents
Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. Includes typescripts, correspondence, printed materials, clippings, broadsides, and a photograph. Topics include congressional bills and legislation on diverse subjects; committees with which Kilgore was involved, including the Senate
Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Mobilization, the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (also known as the Truman Committee), the Committee on Military Affairs, and the...
Dates:
1937-1956
Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the...
Dates:
1883-1960
Additional filters:
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- Lawyers - letters and papers. 10
- Politicians -- United States 7
- United States -- Politics and government 7
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- World War, 1914-1918 6
- Marion County (W. Va.) 5
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Fairmont. 4
- Judges - letters and papers. 4
- Railroads 4
- Universities and colleges 4
- West Virginia - Governors. 4
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 4
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- Banks and banking 3
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- Taxation 3
- Unions. 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Agriculture 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Education 2
- Fayette County (Pa.) 2
- General stores 2
- Kentucky 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Political campaigns 2
- Politicians 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 2
- West Virginia - politics. 2
- Women -- Suffrage 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Beckley (W. Va.) 1
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Clay County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Colombia 1
- Communism 1
- Court records 1
- Democratic National Convention 1
- Democratic National Convention of 1956. 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Depression. 1
- Educational law and legislation 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Europe 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- France 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Huntington. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kansas 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Land. 1
- Legislation - United States. 1 + ∧ less
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