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Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

E.C. and H.B. Eagle Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0721
Overview

The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.

Dates: ca. 1910-1980

George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates: 1898-1963

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

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

Vause W. Marshall Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1198
Scope and Contents Papers of a Williamsport rare book and manuscripts dealer include correspondence relating to the book trade, dealer book lists and catalogues, and correspondence on West Virginia and national politics, 1880-1946; the Garner for President Committee; the Rush D. Holt campaign of 1940; the National Jeffersonian Democrats; and the state Democratic Executive Committee. There is one folder of John T. McGraw papers. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, Roy Bird Cook, W.E.B. Du Bois, P.S....
Dates: 1880-1948

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

William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1652
Scope and Content Papers of William Edwin Chilton (1858-1939), a lawyer, Democratic politician, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, and U.S. Senator (1911-1917); also includes correspondence of his son William E. Chilton, Jr., editor of the Gazette. The Chiltons were a prominent Charleston family who were long-time owners of the Gazette. There are series of correspondence, legal papers, speeches and writings, and other...
Dates: 1917, 1928-1939

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Elections 6
Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
Coal mining -- Strikes 2
Coal mining. 2
New Deal, 1933-1939 2
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Prohibition -- United States -- History 2
West Virginia - Governors. 2
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
Banks and banking 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Charleston Gazette 1
Charleston. 1
Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
Coal mining - Medical care. 1
Coal mining - coal companies. 1
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
Court records 1
Depression. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Editors - letters and papers. 1
Election of 1912. 1
Epidemics 1
Farms and farming. 1
France 1
Genealogy 1
Hinton (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Huntington. 1
Kentucky - coal lands. 1
Korean Conflict. 1
Land. 1
London Naval Conference 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
New River coalfields. 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Pocahontas Mines 2. 1
Pocahontas Mines 6. 1
Politicians -- United States 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Republican National Convention - 1952. 1
Roads 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Summers County (W. Va.) 1
Transportation 1
Union names. 1
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
United States - Federal Reserve Act. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- Politics and government 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
West Virginia - coal lands. 1
Williamsport (W. Va.) 1
Women -- Suffrage 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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