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Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609
 

Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609

Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.

Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the state; Kump's legal practice; Red House Resettlement Project; Five-Year Plan for West Virginia; state and national elections, and state politics, 1908-1936.

Correspondents include T. Coleman Andrews, Newton D. Baker, Alben W. Barkley, Harry F. Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, John J. Cornwell, John J. Davis, John W. Davis, James A. Farley, John Nance Garner, William E. Glasscock, Henry D. Hatfield, J. Edgar Hoover, Harold L. Ickes, Douglas MacArthur, John T. McGraw, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Sly, Howard Sutherland, and Clarence Wayland Watson. See control folder for box level contents list.

Conditions Governing Access

No special access restriction applies.

Dates
Creation: 1883-1960
Extent
36.25 Linear Feet (36 ft. 3 in. (86 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each))
Related Name
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Red House Resettlement Project
Andrews, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1899-1983
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956
Brown, Joseph.
Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966
Byrd, Richard E.
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976
Garner, John Nance, 1868-1967
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
McGraw, John T.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Sly, John F. (John Fairfield), 1893-1965
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950
Watson, C. W.
Language
English
Language
English
Dates
Creation: 1904–1960
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Creation: 1904 November–1908 December
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Creation: 1909 January–1909 July
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Creation: 1909 August–1910 May
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Creation: 1910 June–1911 February
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Creation: 1911 March–1911 October
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Creation: 1911 November–1912 May
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Creation: 1912 May–1912 December
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Creation: 1913 January–1913 August
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Creation: 1913 September–1914 January
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Creation: 1914 February–1914 June
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Creation: 1914 July–1914 December
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Creation: 1915 January–1915 June
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Creation: 1915 August–1916 January
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Creation: 1916 February–1916 June
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Creation: 1916 June–1917 January
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Creation: 1917 January–1917 July
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Creation: 1917 April–1918 January
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Creation: 1918 January–1918 June