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Frank Hereford (1825-1891) Correspondence
Correspondence of Congressman and U.S. Senator, Frank Hereford. Papers deal with the machinations of the Camden-Davis ring, Hereford's election to the Senate, and West Virginia politics. Most of the letters involve the attempts of Johnson Camden and John E. Kenna to secure Hereford a seat on the Utah Commission in 1886.
Correspondents include: J. Ogden Murray, John E. Kenna, Johnson N. Camden, Lewis Baker, John Brannon, John Echds, and J. W. McCreery.
Frank Hereford (1825-1891) Correspondence
George Cookman Sturgiss (1842-1925) Papers
Correspondence and newspaper clippings of a Morgantown judge, railroad promoter, and U.S. Congressman. Papers deal with Sturgiss' political troubles in his bid for re-nomination in 1910 and the unveiling of the Francis H. Pierpont statue in Statuary Hall, Washington.
George Jackson (1757-1831) Letter
Letter from a Clarksburg attorney, justice of the peace, delegate to the Virginia General Assembly, 1785-1791, 1794, and U.S. congressman, 1795-1797, 1799-1803, "To the Freeholders of the Northwestern Congressional District of Virginia." Jackson expresses his intention not to run for reelection and comments on the political situation and the issues of the day.
Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers
John M. Wolverton Scrapbooks
Two scrapbooks kept by Congressman John M. Wolverton's Washington office, documenting his activities as West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1925-30. Subjects covered include the Republican Party and Congressional elections.
Julia C. Polsley Scrapbook
Scrapbook of Julia C. Polsley, "Sunny Side," Point Pleasant, containing clippings on the career and death of her father, Daniel W. Polsley, editor of the Wellsburg TRANSCRIPT, lieutenant governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, judge of the Seventh Judicial District, and member of the Fortieth Congress.
Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks
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.