West Virginia. Legislature
Organization
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
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
Jonathan M. Bennett (1816-1887) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0032
Overview
Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include...
Dates:
1785-1899
Monongalia County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents
The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates:
1774-1933
Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1940
Overview
Professional correspondence, newspaper clipping, manuscript notes, and speech of West Virginia politician Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919). The letters and telegram are in a series written in August, 1876; correspondents are Nathan Goff...
Dates:
1876-1891, undated
Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0213
Overview
Correspondence, letter books, newspapers, pamphlets, and papers on suits that were tried before Judge Nathan Goff (1843-1920) while he was serving as a U.S. District Attorney and a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court. Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919). The majority of the...
Dates:
ca. 1866-1899
Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0953
Overview
Negative photostats of letters of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920), as Secretary of the Navy, to President Rutherford B. Hayes. Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919).
Dates:
1880-1883
Roy L. McCulty Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2129
Overview
Papers of a Roane County businessman who served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1943 to 1956 and in the state senate from 1957 to 1961. The collection includes letters, photographs, a scrapbook, clippings pertaining to McCulty's career, and two notebooks containing digests of bills introduced during the 1960 session of the state legislature.
Dates:
1918-1961
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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- Account books 4
- Education 4
- Taxation 4
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 4
- Judges - letters and papers. 3
- Judges -- West Virginia 3
- Land. 3
- Railroads 3
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 3
- Transportation 3
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 3
- West Virginia - politics. 3
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Genealogy 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Political campaigns 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Civil War -- letters 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 companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Court records 1
- Democratic Party 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 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
- General stores 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kentucky 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Martinsburg. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Nursing Homes -- United States 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Sutton (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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