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Hulett C. Smith, Governor, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2170
Scope and Contents Official papers of Gov. Hulett C. Smith's administration covering budgetary, state agency and institutional matters, recommendations and proposed legislation. Prominent topics dealt with are crime, federal aid, locks and dams, mental health and pollution. There is correspondence with: Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, Office of Economic Opportunity of the United States government; the Democratic party on the county and national level; the National Governors...
Dates: 1964-1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John J. Cornwell (1867-1953) Speech

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Collection Number: A&M 1813
Overview

Speech by governor John J. Cornwall on the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918. There is a brief report on demobilization orders.

Dates: 1918
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Jacob Cornwell (1867-1953), Governor, Papers and Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0952
Scope and Contents Papers of the fifteenth governor of West Virginia who was a newspaper publisher in Romney, an orchardman, lawyer, and counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. There are a few papers of W.B. Cornwell. The collection includes: personal and business correspondence, 1896-1953; correspondence as governor, 1916-1922; legal papers, ca.1843-1916; and material relating to "Cornwell Day," 1931; Baltimore and Ohio and other railroads; Romney Orchard Company, ca. 1916-1919; South Branch Development...
Dates: ca. 1843, 1896-1953
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1414
Scope and Contents Papers of Matthew Neely, a politician who had a long career as senator, congressman, governor, and Democratic political boss. Collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, legal papers, photographs, and copies of the Congressional Record . There are also newspaper clipping scrapbooks covering the years 1928-1954 (on five reels of microfilm). Neely had a long career, including law student at West Virginia University, Marion County lawyer, mayor of Fairmont, congressman, 1913-1921,...
Dates: 1900-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks

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Collection Number: A&M 1353
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings on Neely's controversy as a law student at WVU, and his subsequent career as a lawyer, Mayor of Fairmont, Congressman, and United States Senator.

Dates: 1900-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks

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Collection Number: A&M 1384
Scope and Contents

The two volumes of newspaper clippings cover the years 1913-1916, and 1922-1927 and are concerned with Neely's activities as Congressman and Senator, including his abortive attempt to have Judge A. G. Dayton impeached. There are also two volumes of speeches (clippings from the Congressional Record) for years 1926-1928, and 1931-1932.

Dates: 1913-1932
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958) Vest

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Collection Number: A&M 3753
Overview

Vest owned by West Virginia politician Matthew M. Neely around the age of 22 years.

Dates: 1896
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0213
Overview Correspondence, letter books, newspapers, pamphlets, and papers on suits that were tried before Judge Nathan Goff (1843-1920) while he was serving as a U.S. District Attorney and a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court. Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919). The majority of the...
Dates: ca. 1866-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0953
Overview

Negative photostats of letters of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920), as Secretary of the Navy, to President Rutherford B. Hayes. Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919).

Dates: 1880-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1940
Overview Professional correspondence, newspaper clipping, manuscript notes, and speech of West Virginia politician Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Goff's career included terms as West Virginia Legislator (1867-1868), U.S. district attorney for West Virginia (1868), Secretary of the Navy (1881), U.S. Congressman (1883-1889), federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit (1892-1911), and U.S. Senator (1913-1919). The letters and telegram are in a series written in August, 1876; correspondents are Nathan Goff...
Dates: 1876-1891, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 8
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Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 7
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 6
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 6
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 5
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 5
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 5
Watson, James O. 5
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 4
Dayton, Alston Gordon 4
Dayton, Spencer 4
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 4
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 4
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 4
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 4
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 3
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 3
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 3
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 3
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 3
Dawson, William M.O. 3
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 3
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 3
Gore, Howard M. 3
McGraw, John T. 3
Morgan, Ephraim Franklin, 1869-1950 3
Patteson, Okey L. 3
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 3
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 3
Society of the Army of West Virginia 3
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 3
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 3
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 3
United States. Congress 3
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Barron, W. W. 2
Battelle, Gordon. 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 2
Caperton, Gaston 2
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 2
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 2
Dirksen, Everett McKinley 2
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 2
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 2
Fleming family 2
Fleming, Benjamin. 2
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 2
Green, William. 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906 2
Holt, Helen Louise Froelich, 1913-2015 2
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 2
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 2
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 2
Johnson, Henry J. 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
Lang, Theodore F. 2
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Marland, William C. 2
McCormick, Robert R. 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Ogden, H. C. 2
Rucker, William P. 2
Siviter, Anna Pierpont, 1859-1932 2
Siviter, William Henry, 1858-1939. 2
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 2
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 2
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 2
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 2
Underwood, Cecil H., 1922-2008 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs. Subcommittee on War Mobilization. 2
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development 2
United States. Works Progress Administration 2
West Virginia University 2
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 2
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 2
4-H clubs 1
Ackerman, Ernest Robinson, 1863-1931 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adee, Alvey A. 1
Alderson, George 1
Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910 1
Allen, Si. 1
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