Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
H.C. Ogden Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2315
Overview
A letter written by Herbert Hoover, then serving as Secretary of Commerce, to H.C. Ogden, thanking him for a complimentary editorial published in the Wheeling INTELLIGENCER. Also, a carbon copy of Ogden's typed reply to Hoover and a microprint copy of the editorial.
Dates:
1928
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
Ira E. Robinson Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0965
Scope and Contents
Additional papers of Ira E. Robinson, including ts. and photostat copies of papers concerning the Revolutionary War service of Col. John Gibson and Col. Archibald Lochry; a tls. From J. Wm. DeGrange with accompanying articles on army activities in the vicinity of Philippi, W. Va. during the Civil War; and a clipping and reprint of articles by I. E. Robinson. There are, also, facsimilies of ms. letters and poems by James Whitcomb Riley; tls written by Edmond Eitel for Mrs. Riley to Mr....
Dates:
1818-1822; 1875-1930
John Lewis Sheldon (1865-1947) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1895
Overview
Correspondence, mainly concerning family news and business. There is comment on prohibition, President Woodrow Wilson's reelection, World War I speculation, the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover, and the influenza outbreak of 1919-1920.
Dates:
1905-1951
Oscar Clemens Stine Interview Transcript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2194
Overview
A revised and indexed transcript copy of an interview with Dr. O.C. Stine, an expert in agricultural economics who was employed with the Department of Agriculture from the Progressive Era to that of the Fair Deal. Stine tells of his childhood on a farm in Jackson County, WV, his subsequent education in small town southeastern Ohio where his family moved, and his attendance and graduation from Ohio University with a bachelors in liberal arts and education. After teaching briefly on the...
Dates:
1884-1951
Political Campaigns and Elections Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2818
Overview
Buttons, pins, and stickers for West Virginia political campaigns, including Gubernatorial and Senatorial races. Politicians represented include William Barron, Robert Byrd, Darrell McGraw, Mollohan, Arch Moore, Okey Patteson, Charlotte Pritt, Jennings Randolph, Jay Rockefeller, Jim Spouse, and Cecil Underwood.
Dates:
1948-2002
Walter Simms Hallanan (1890-1962) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1659
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed material of the Republican national committeeman, state political leader, and president of the Plymouth Oil Company. Subjects include Republican national conventions, 1928-1960; state and local politics, 1919-1961; National Petroleum Council; Plymouth and related oil companies; Republican rejection of the League of Nations; and Hallanan's role as temporary chairman of the 1952 Republican National Convention. Correspondents include...
Dates:
1919-1961
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- Elections 4
- Politics and government. 4
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Poetry. 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Agriculture 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Arthurdale Homestead Project. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1916. 1
- Epidemics 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Germany 1
- Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Italy 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Republican National Convention - 1952. 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Soviet Union 1
- Sweeney, Tom - Senate campaign. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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