Hechler, Ken
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1909
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...
Dates:
1935-1965
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (1912-1962), Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1580
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia Republican chairman, U.S. senator (serving in 1958), and member of the 1960 Republican National Convention platform committee.Subjects include: West Virginia and national Republican politics, 1956-1961; the 1958 Congressional election; the 1960 presidential campaign; the State Chamber of Commerce; State Economic Development Agency; Ohio Valley Improvement Association; and West Virginia University....
Dates:
1956-1962
Ken Hechler Interview Transcript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1164
Overview
Transcription of an oral history interview by Niel M. Johnson of the Harry S. Truman Library with Ken Hechler. Hechler, born 1914 in Roslyn, NY, received A.B., Swarthmore 1935; M.A., Columbia 1936; Ph.D., Columbia 1940 in Political Science which he later taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Marshall Universities. He served as a U. S. Army combat historian in Europe during World War II. Hechler was a research assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was special assistant to President...
Dates:
1985
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
Samuel T. Mallison Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1913
Overview
Correspondence, speeches, reminiscences, and newspaper clippings of a West Virginia newspaperman, state auditor, 1927-1929, and businessman. Subjects covered include the West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1924, Rush D. Holt's decision to run for the U.S. Senate in 1934, oil wildcatting ventures of Michael Benedum and J.C. Trees, the economy, oil imports, depletion allowances on the production of oil and gas, and labor legislation. Correspondents include Holmes Alexander, Robert C. Byrd,...
Dates:
1915-1964 ca.
West Virginia Human Rights Commission Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1887
Overview
Papers of Thomas W. Gavett, Chairman of the Commission. Subjects covered include: surveys of equal employment opportunities, newspaper clippings, material from the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, correspondence regarding non-discriminatory college applications for West Virginia institutions of higher learning, memoranda from the executive director to commission members, minutes of meetings, hearings, West Virginia Interracial Commission created by Governor M.M. Neely, West Virginia...
Dates:
1961-1966
West Virginia Square Dance Convention
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2620
Overview
A history of the West Virginia Square & Round Dance Convention and of America's distinct folk dance tradition including clogging, contra and flat-foot, and round and square dancing. Also includes documentation regarding efforts by the Convention to acquire passage of a state bill authorizing the square dance as the officially recognized dance of West Virginia. Included in this lobbying endeavor are petitions from local square dance clubs and correspondence from Gerald Ash, Percy...
Dates:
1970-88
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- Banks - Bank of Bramwell. 1
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- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Gubernatorial election campaigns - 1968. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Huntington. 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railroad. 1
- Square dancing 1
- Sweeney, Tom - Senate campaign. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- United States Congressmen - West Virginia. 1
- West Virginia - First Governors Conference on Human Rights. 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia Square Dance Convention. 1
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