Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents
Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates:
1888-1929
Armistead Abraham Lilly (1878-1956) Speeches
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1095
Overview
Three speeches of A.A. Lilly, including the welcome address delivered at the Lilly reunion, 1949; Lincoln Day dinner speech delivered at Sutton, 1936; a speech delivered before the Republican convention in Charleston, presenting Senator Guy D. Goff for nomination as a candidate for president of the United States; and a memorial of the Kanawha County circuit court on the death of A.A. Lilly in 1956.
Dates:
1928, 1936, 1949, 1956
Guy D. Goff Library Check List
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1137
Overview
Alphabetical author and short title list of the Goff Collection of books.
Dates:
ca. 1931
Guy D. Goff Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0017
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, printed material, speeches, and essays of Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 - January 7, 1933), son of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Guy D. Goff was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin (1911-1915), assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1917, ca. 1920-1923), and a U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1925-1931), among other things. Correspondence includes letters on family matters, post-World War I Europe, and...
Dates:
1918-1931
Guy D. Goff Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0622
Overview
Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and two volumes of typed copies of correspondence written by Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 - January 7, 1933), son of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Guy D. Goff was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin (1911-1915), assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1917, ca. 1920-1923), and a U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1925-1931), among other things. One scrapbook concerns labor violence in 1911-1912,...
Dates:
1911-1920
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
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
Political Campaigns and Elections Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2818
Overview
Buttons, pins, and stickers for West Virginia and national 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.The addendum of 2024 August 12 includes a Head Start flag that hung in the Office of Economic Opportunity (created as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s...
Dates:
1948-2006
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- Politics and government. 5
- Elections 4
- Banks and banking 2
- Land. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Taxation 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Washington (D.C.) 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Alien Property Custodian. 1
- Anthony, Susan B. Amendment (19th Amendment) -- Women's suffrage 1
- Banks - Ritchie County Bank. 1
- Charleston. 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Draft resisters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Election of 1924. 1
- Elkins (W. Va.) 1
- Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Logan County. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Milwaukee (Wis.) 1
- Missouri 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg State Journal 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Primary election law - WV. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - West Virginia Central Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- San Francisco (Calif.) 1
- Sutton (W. Va.) 1
- Sweeney, Tom - Senate campaign. 1
- Unions. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - primary election law. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Women's Home Missionary Society 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Bristow-Mondell Resolution 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- Opposition 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Draft resisters 1 + ∧ less
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