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West Virginia - Governors.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates: 1888-1929

Governor Howard M. Gore, Two Invitations to Inauguration Events

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4070
Overview

Two invitations to events in connection with the inauguration of West Virginia Governor Howard M. Gore on Wednesday, 4 March 1925. Includes invitation to Inauguration (at noon) and Reception (at 8:30 PM), and separate invitation to the Inaugural Ball (at 10:30 PM).

Dates: 1925

Howard M. Gore (1877-1947) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0193
Scope and Contents

A typed letter signed from Howard M. Gore, Secretary of Agriculture to Congressman Ernest R. Ackerman justifying the work of the USDA representatives in foreign countries to study agriculture conditions, to further research in pest control, and to determine the product standards of other nations to be met by U.S. exporters of raw and processed agricultural products.

Dates: 1924

Howard M. Gore (1877-1947) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0198
Scope and Contents The official papers of the 17th governor of West Virginia. Gore's career began in World War I when he was assistant food administrator in West Virginia; and in 1921 he went to Washington as a livestock appraiser and specialist in marketing livestock in the Department of Agriculture; he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and upon the Death of Henry C. Wallace, was made Secretary of Agriculture (November 22, 1924- March 4, 1925). In addition to his papers as Governor, other...
Dates: 1908-1947