Democratic Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates:
1842-1927, 1948
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
Lewis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview
Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates:
1825-1936
Robert G. Kelly Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1959
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper clippings, reports, and speeches of a Democratic Party official; correspondence and minutes of Democratic State Executive Committee meetings. Subjects include West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1932, political patronage, federal relief programs in West Virginia, Rush Holt's senatorial campaign of 1934, the Holt-Kelly feud, and the miners' strike of 1939 Correspondents include Robert G. Kelly, Herman Guy Kump, M.M. Neely, Joe L. Smith, Homer A. Holt,...
Dates:
1932-1941
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
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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- Subject: Coal mining. X
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- Coal mining. 11
- Politics and government. 11
- Railroads 9
- Elections 8
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 8
- Editors - letters and papers. 6
- World War, 1914-1918 6
- Lumber trade 5
- New Deal, 1933-1939 5
- Petroleum industry and trade 5
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Land. 4
- Academies (Private schools) 3
- Account books 3
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 3
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- General stores 3
- Judges - letters and papers. 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Mills and mill-work 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- Unions. 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Banks and banking 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Education 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Gas industry 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Lewis County. 2
- Pennsylvania 2
- Taxation 2
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 2
- Transportation 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Banks - Bank of Bramwell. 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Church buildings 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 mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Colombia 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Europe 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- France 1
- Genealogy 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Grafton. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Huntington. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- Maps. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Missionaries 1 + ∧ less
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