Democratic Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1199
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, and papers of his grandson Wilson Lee Camden (1870-1958). Gideon D. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). His papers include correspondence, legal and business papers, surveys and plats, and printed material. Subjects include Virginia, West Virginia, and national politics; the railroad, oil, timber, and...
Dates:
1784-1958, undated
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
William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content
Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates:
1917, 1928-1939
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- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Land. 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- Temperance and prohibition. 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia Geological Survey 1 + ∧ less
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