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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Typescript and Recording of an Address before a West Virginia University Convocation

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Collection Number: A&M 1325
Overview

Manuscript and recording of an address by General Dwight D. Eisenhower before a West Virginia University convocation on 1947 September 22, at which he receives an honorary degree. In his acceptance address Eisenhower discusses World War II global politics, mountaineers, and education.

Dates: 1947

Holmes Moss Alexander (1906-1985) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1372
Overview Correspondence, literary manuscripts, photographs, and miscellaneous material of a newspaper columnist, political analyst, biographer, novelist, short story writer, and gentleman farmer. The papers are primarily concerned with Alexander's literary and publishing activities. Other subjects include Alexander's interest in livestock raising, a proposed birth control law, and motion picture censorship in Maryland. Correspondents include Styles Bridges, Richard A. Chase, Joseph S. Clark, Thomas...
Dates: 1929-1970

John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (1912-1962), Politician, Papers

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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

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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

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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

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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

West Virginia University, Honorary Degrees, Lists

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Collection Number: A&M 2583
Overview

Two lists, alphabetical and chronological, of honorary degree recipients of West Virginia University. Recipients include Newton D. Baker, Waitman Barbe, Michael Benedum, Luis Borges, Pearl Buck, Robert C. Byrd, Henry S. Commager, Roy Bird Cook, Earl Core, John J. Cornwell, Marmaduke Dent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry D. Hatfield, John L. Lewis, J.A. McBride, Jennings Randolph, Sam Rayburn, Harold E. Stassen, Cyrus Vance, I.C. White, and Charles Yeager.

Dates: 1873-1988

West Virginia University, Medical Technology Program, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1878
Overview The medical technology program at West Virginia University, now the Division of Medical Laboratory Science, is part of the university's School of Medicine. Records of the West Virginia University Medical Technology Program and other related materials document the education of medical technologists chiefly from the 1960s to the early 1980s in general and specifically at WVU. Materials related to the WVU medical technology program and School of Medicine include correspondence, financial...
Dates: 1933-1982; Majority of material found within 1960-1980

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Elections 4
Politics and government. 4
Livestock 2
West Virginia University. Medical Technology Program 2
Authors -- Letters and papers 1