Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
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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- Canals 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Elections 1
- Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Sweeney, Tom - Senate campaign. 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1 + ∧ less
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