West Virginia. Legislature
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Charles W. Osenton (b.1865) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1215
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers, of a state senate minority leader, 1899-1901, prominent Fayette County lawyer, and Democratic committeeman. Subjects include Osenton's early life; his law training at Georgetown University; his election to the state senate as a "silver" Democrat; William Jennings Bryan's tour of West Virginia, 1908; the presidential election of 1908; and Champ Clark's battle for the Democratic nomination, 1912. The papers also include a collection of...
Dates:
ca. 1847-1920
Francis Marion Reynolds (1843-1931) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0050
Overview
Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.
Dates:
1845-1931
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
Gray Silver (1870-1935), Agriculturalist and Banker, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0164
Overview
Personal and business papers of the Martinsburg agriculturalist and banker who was a representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington and a member of the West Virginia Senate, 1907-1913. Much of the material relates to fruit growing and marketing and other business activities of Silver, as well as Democrat politics. Subjects covered include: requests and discussions of the merits of political appointments; lobbying within and through the Democrat Party for agricultural...
Dates:
1903-1935
Gustavus Friend Taylor (1843-1915) Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1303
Overview
Scrapbook of the editor of the Sutton MOUNTAINEER, member of the Wheeling Convention, 1861, and the state legislature, 1867. Clippings pertain to election returns for Braxton County and the nation; Taylor's editorials; letters to the editor; population statistics; and politics. A section of the volume consists of Taylor's record of visits to the county schools as County Superintendent of Free Schools, 1869, and a record of personal accounts.
Dates:
1862-1878
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
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview
Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates:
1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
Septimius Hall (1847-1926) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1634
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Septimius Hall (1847- 1926), a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1872 and a state legislator. Letters concern state politics, 1881-1886, and the Virginia Debt Commission, 1913-1916. Correspondents include: J. J. Woods, Johnson N. Camden, E. D. Talbott, & W. E. Chilton. The papers include an autograph volume with signatures of the members of the State Legislature, 1881-1882. ...
Dates:
1881-1919
Septimius Hall Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0561
Scope and Contents
A letter regarding Mr. Hall's commission as notary public in Wetzel County; bills from the West Virginia Penitentiary, and Sweeneys & Co., Wheeling; and a typed copy of the democratic state platform in West Virginia for 1912.Addendum: A letter from Clarence M. Hall of San Jose, California, to Septimius Hall dated December 12, 1912; two copies of messages of Governor Wilson and W. F. McCombs to C. M. Hall dated May 13, 1911; and two copies of each of the following three...
Dates:
1871-1912
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
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- Coal mining. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Education 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Taxation 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 2
- West Virginia - politics. 2
- Account books 1
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Braxton 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 mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Martinsburg. 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Sutton (W. Va.) 1
- Sutton Mountaineer. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - Wheeling Conventions of 1861-1863. 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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