Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Organization
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Armistead Abraham Lilly (1878-1956) Speeches
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1095
Overview
Three speeches of A.A. Lilly, including the welcome address delivered at the Lilly reunion, 1949; Lincoln Day dinner speech delivered at Sutton, 1936; a speech delivered before the Republican convention in Charleston, presenting Senator Guy D. Goff for nomination as a candidate for president of the United States; and a memorial of the Kanawha County circuit court on the death of A.A. Lilly in 1956.
Dates:
1928, 1936, 1949, 1956
E.C. and H.B. Eagle Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0721
Overview
The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.
Dates:
ca. 1910-1980
George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview
Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates:
1895-1920
George H. McGrew Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1622
Overview
Correspondence, sermons, religious writings, and accounts of a graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School, Methodist missionary to India (ca.1876-1885), and son of Representative James Clark McGrew of Kingwood. Subjects include West Virginia politics; social activities in Kingwood; conditions in the Indian mission field; nautical improvements tested at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1879; Northwestern University; and the Republican National Convention of 1880.
Dates:
1865-1885
Harry C. Woodyard (1867-1929) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2458
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal, and financial, and miscellaneous papers of a businessman and politician from Roane County, West Virginia, who was elected to the state Senate in 1898 and to the U.S. Congress as a Republican for several terms: 1902-11, 1916-23, 1925-27. His early business activity was in wholesale groceries and the lumber industry. He later engaged in newspaper publishing and owned an estimated eighteen weekly papers. Woodyard's sons continued in their father's business after his...
Dates:
ca. 1910-1929
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview
A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates:
1914-1919
Hugh Ike Shott Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0908
Scope and Contents
The papers of Hugh Ike Shott of Bluefield, W.Va. Mr. Shott was owner and publisher of The Blue Field Telegraph and the Sunset News. He was also owner of radio stations WHIS of Bluefield, and served as postmaster in Bluefield by appointments of Presidents T. Roosevelt and Taft. He was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1928 and 1930, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. Senate for the unexpired term of M. M. Neely. Mr. Shott was also a member of the W.Va. Semi-Centennial...
Dates:
1858-1954
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (1912-1962), Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1580
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia Republican chairman, U.S. senator (serving in 1958), and member of the 1960 Republican National Convention platform committee.Subjects include: West Virginia and national Republican politics, 1956-1961; the 1958 Congressional election; the 1960 presidential campaign; the State Chamber of Commerce; State Economic Development Agency; Ohio Valley Improvement Association; and West Virginia University....
Dates:
1956-1962
John M. Wolverton Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2667
Overview
Two scrapbooks kept by Congressman John M. Wolverton's Washington office, documenting his activities as West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1925-30. Subjects covered include the Republican Party and Congressional elections.
Dates:
1925-1930
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- Politics and government. 15
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Land. 3
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 3
- Taxation 3
- Banks and banking 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
- Farms and farming. 2
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Physicians - letters and papers. 2
- Schools 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Washington (D.C.) 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies 1
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Americanism. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Banks - Ritchie County Bank. 1
- Bible 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Hancock County 1
- Civil War -- Illinois 28th Infantry 1
- Clergy 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 industry. 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Dawson, M.O. 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Election of 1924. 1
- Election of 1932. 1
- Election of 1944. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fluoridation. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Hinton (W. Va.) 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Illinois 1
- Immigration. 1
- India 1
- Jane Lew (W. Va.) 1
- Jews & Judaism. 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Livestock 1
- Logan County. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Maps. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marshall County. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Missionaries 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Railroads 1 + ∧ less
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