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Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2265
Overview

One common pleas book, and two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of A.B. Fleming, plus a genealogical record of the Fleming family.

Dates: ca. 1880-1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Congressman Harley O. Staggers Sr. papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0913
Overview Papers of West Virginia Congressman Harley O. Staggers. Includes legislative files, correspondence, reports, bills, speeches, resolutions, news releases, and invitations. There are records of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce which Staggers chaired. There are also copies of bills regarding banking, broadcasting, clean air, education, finance, international relations, the judiciary, public works, and trade. (Box 68, folder 22, contains legislative material pertaining to...
Dates: 1949-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Congressman Nick Joe Rahall II papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4118
Overview Nick Joe Rahall II (b.1949) represented West Virginia’s Third District in the United States House of Representatives for nineteen terms. He was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Congress and served from January 3, 1977-January 3, 2015. From 2007-2011, he was chair of the Committee on Natural Resources. From 1971-1974, he was a staff member in the United States Senate Office of the Majority Whip, and he was a delegate to both the 1972 and 1976 Democratic National Conventions. The bulk...
Dates: 1970-2015
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henry Gassaway Davis Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0717
Scope and Contents

Additional papers of Henry G. Davis, mainly cancelled checks and check tubs. There are several letters, telegrams and freight bills, 1875-1897; and bank statements; U.S. geological Survey Maps; and a picture of George R. Latham.

Dates: 1871-1904
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) 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 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

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

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