Democratic Party (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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 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
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
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
William Hereford McGinnis Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0855
Overview
The personal business papers of William Hereford McGinnis (1855-1930), a Beckley lawyer who was prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County, 1892-1896, a senator in 1902, judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 1922-1924, chairman for a number of years of the executive committee of the Democratic Party in Raleigh County, and delegate to the national convention in 1920. There are case papers, correspondence and other records of the Hatcher-McGinnis Law Firm, 1834-1930; family photographs; and...
Dates:
1834-1954
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- Subject: Lawyers - letters and papers. X
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- Politics and government. 15
- Elections 11
- Coal mining. 5
- Judges - letters and papers. 5
- Marion County (W. Va.) 5
- New Deal, 1933-1939 5
- Railroads 5
- United States -- Politics and government 5
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- Editors - letters and papers. 4
- Fairmont. 4
- Politicians -- United States 4
- West Virginia - Governors. 4
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- Academies (Private schools) 3
- Account books 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- General stores 3
- Lumber trade 3
- Petroleum industry and trade 3
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
- Banks and banking 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Land. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 2
- Transportation 2
- Unions. 2
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- Agriculture 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Beckley (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Camden-Davis ring 1
- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
- Charleston. 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Court records 1
- Democratic National Convention of 1956. 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1856. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1884. 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- France 1
- Gas industry 1
- Genealogy 1
- Grafton. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Huntington. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Kentucky - coal lands. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- London Naval Conference 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
- Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County Herald. 1
- Preston County Journal. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Five Year Plan. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - Prohibition Amendment. 1
- West Virginia - Salary Grab Act. 1
- West Virginia - coal lands. 1 + ∧ less
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