West Virginia. Legislature
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Samuel Young Letters (photocopies)
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2737
Overview
Photostatic copies of two letters from Samuel Young to John Sharp, written in 1863 at Wheeling, West Virginia, where Mr. Young was representing Pocahontas County in the West Virginia legislature. The letters deal mostly with the appointment of Sharp as Adjutant of the 127th Reg., West Virginia Militia (Pocahontas County), and with West Virginia senatorial elections.
Dates:
1863
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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- Politics and government. 6
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Education 2
- Taxation 2
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 2
- West Virginia - politics. 2
- Account books 1
- Advertising 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 127th Militia. 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
- Elkins (W. Va.) 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
- Land. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas County - West Virginia legislators. 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
- Universities and colleges 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
- West Virginia legislators - Pocahontas County. 1
- West Virginia senatorial elections. 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.) 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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