Whig Party (U.S.)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
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
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- Canals 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads - Parkersburg-Wheeling railroad struggle. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Secession 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taxes - Tariff of 1846. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1 + ∧ less
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