Democratic Party (U.S.)
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Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
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
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1028
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and other papers of politician and industrialist Henry Gassaway Davis (November 16, 1823 - March 11, 1916), a Democrat who served in the West Virginia Legislature, 1866-1871, and the U.S. Senate, 1871-1883. Davis was also the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1904. A reel of microfilm includes two private account books (1867-1915) and a letter book (1898-1916), which mentions several state and national Democratic leaders including Stephen B. Elkins and John T. McGraw....
Dates:
1867-1916
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
Hulett C. Smith, Governor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2170
Scope and Contents
Official papers of Gov. Hulett C. Smith's administration covering budgetary, state agency and institutional matters, recommendations and proposed legislation. Prominent topics dealt with are crime, federal aid, locks and dams, mental health and pollution. There is correspondence with: Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, Office of Economic Opportunity of the United States government; the Democratic party on the county and national level; the National Governors...
Dates:
1964-1969
Izetta Jewel Brown Miller (b.1883), Clippings and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2316
Overview
Originals and copies of clippings and photographs concerning the life and career of Izetta Jewel Kenny Brown Miller. Her career included work in the theater, Women's Suffrage Movement, radio, agriculture, television, and politics. Her first husband was William Gay Brown, Sr., West Virginia Congressman from Kingwood, and her second marriage was to Dr. Hugh Miller of the faculties of George Washington University and Union College. In 1922 and 1924, Mrs. Brown ran for the nomination as the...
Dates:
ca. 1908-1973
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
John W. Davis (1873-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2080
Overview
Correspondence of the 1924 Democratic presidential nominee; draft of a speech on legislative power; tickets to the Democratic National Convention in New York; and a poem concerning Davis' candidacy for president in 1924. Correspondence is between Davis and his nephew, John J.D. Preston, of Charleston. Subjects mentioned include politics, World War II, Davis' law practice, and family matters.
Dates:
1924-1943, 1953
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
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1228
Scope and Contents
Two business letters of Senator Camden concerning the Stewart Brick Company, Parkersburg, and a Democratic Electoral ticket for Virginia in 1852.
Dates:
1852; 1894
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- Coal mining. 6
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- Lumber trade 5
- Marion County (W. Va.) 5
- Petroleum industry and trade 5
- West Virginia - Governors. 5
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Editors - letters and papers. 4
- Fairmont. 4
- Judges - letters and papers. 4
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- West Virginia - Politics and government. 4
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- World War, 1939-1945 4
- Academies (Private schools) 3
- Account books 3
- Banks and banking 3
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Politicians 3
- Taxation 3
- Unions. 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- West Virginia - politics. 3
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
- Agriculture 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Democratic National Convention 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
- Pennsylvania 2
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 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
- Camden-Davis ring 1
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- Canadian Reciprocity Agreement 1
- Charleston Gazette 1
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- 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
- Colombia 1
- Communism 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Congressional Election of 1862 1
- Court records 1
- Democratic National Convention of 1956. 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Depression. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Educational law and legislation 1
- Election of 1844. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Election of 1924. 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Epidemics 1
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- Europe 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
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