Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Organization
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Gordon B. Gibbens Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2816
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Gordon B. Gibbens of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Subjects discussed include personal and family business, West Virginia Republican Party affairs, and Gibbens' political appointments. Correspondents include Senators Stephen B. Elkins, Nathan B. Scott, and James A. Hughes, as well as numerous Ohio Valley politicians. One letter (1896 December 21) is an endorsement by a group of "colored" voters of Wood County for Gibbens' appointment to political office, and another letter...
Dates:
1878-1902
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
Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates:
1842-1961
Helen Holt Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1858
Overview
Papers of Helen Louise (Froelich) Holt (1913-2015) relating to her personal, educational, and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into five series: Personal and Political Papers (1912-2015 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1937-2008 and undated), State Government Papers (1955-1960), Federal Government Papers (1960-1984 and undated), and Rush Dew Holt, Jr. Papers...
Dates:
1912-2015 and undated
Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview
Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates:
1838-1899
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. 28
- Elections 18
- Politicians -- United States 9
- United States -- Politics and government 9
- Taxation 7
- West Virginia - Governors. 7
- Politicians 6
- Railroads 6
- Account books 5
- Coal mining -- Strikes 5
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 5
- Universities and colleges 5
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 5
- Coal mining. 4
- Land. 4
- Transportation 4
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 4
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 4
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 4
- Banks and banking 3
- Churches -- Methodist 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Education 3
- Elkins (W. Va.) 3
- Farms and farming. 3
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
- India 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 3
- Schools 3
- Steamboats 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- Women -- Suffrage 3
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 2
- America First Day 2
- China 2
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 2
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 2
- Churches -- Methodist missions 2
- Churches -- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
- Coal mines and mining 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
- Covered bridges 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Election of 1908. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Grafton. 2
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 2
- Harrison County Fair. 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 2
- Korea 2
- Korean Conflict. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mason-Dixon Line 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Missouri 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
- Parkersburg. 2
- Philippines 2
- Physicians - letters and papers. 2
- Political campaigns 2
- Preston County (W. Va.) 2
- Progressive Union Movement. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Shinnston (W. Va.) 2
- Teachers 2
- Temperance 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Washington (D.C.) 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia - politics. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women -- Societies and clubs 2
- Women -- United States -- History 2
- Abolition of slavery 1
- Academies 1
- Advertising 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1 + ∧ less
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