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West Virginia - Governors.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

U.S. Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Historic Records Survey, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0046
Overview Copies of records from each county in West Virginia gathered by the depression-era public records survey funded by the Works Progress Administration. Included are registers of births, marriages, deaths, wills, estate settlements, and land records. Transcriptions of county and circuit court minute and order books are included as well as cemetery readings and registers; church record surveys; mimeographed calendars of the papers of West Virginia governors; and American Imprint Inventory slips...
Dates: ca. 1930-1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia, Executive Department, Journals

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1487
Overview

Executive and Board of Public Works records of the early state government. Included are oaths of office, appointments, executive orders, extraditions, pardons, election certifications, accounts, tax assessments, proclamations and addresses. Subjects covered include militia and political activities during the early statehood period.

Dates: 1863-1904
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia, Governor's Office, Press Releases for Barron and Smith Administrations

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3843
Scope and Contents

Press releases from the Governor's Office of the State of West Virginia for the administrations of William Wallace Barron (1961-1965) and Hulett C. Smith (1965-1969).

Dates: 1962-1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Governors' Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1977
Scope and Contents General correspondence and papers, ca. 1929-1964, of Governors William G. Conley (18th Governor, in office 1929-1933), Herman G. Kump (19th Governor, in office 1933-1937), Homer A. Holt (20th Governor, in office 1937-1941), Matthew M. Neely (21st Governor, in office 1941-1945), Clarence W. Meadows (22nd Governor, in office 1945-1949), Okey Patteson (23rd Governor, in office 1949-1953), William C. Marland (24th Governor, in office 1953-1957), Cecil H. Underwood (25th Governor, in office...
Dates: ca. 1929-1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Governors Speeches, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2577
Overview

Speeches, news releases, and other papers of Governors William C. Marland, Cecil H. Underwood, William W. Barron, and Hulett C. Smith, during their terms of office.

Dates: 1953-1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), Governor, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0006
Scope and Contents Papers documenting the governorship of William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), who served West Virginia in the period 1909-1913. These papers include series of general correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. General correspondence includes many letters regarding employee unrest in the mining regions of the Great Kanawha Valley in 1912-1913, commonly known as the Cabin Creek-Paint Creek strike. Subject files include telegrams, photographs, etc. Newspaper...
Dates: 1905-1913
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), Governor, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1447
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, and public papers of West Virginia's 13th governor. Papers deal primarily with the presidential election of 1904 in West Virginia; West Virginia Republican politics, 1904-1905; and Glasscock's role as Collector of Internal Revenues for West Virginia.Correspondents include William M.O. Dawson, Stephen B. Elkins, Elliott Northcott, Nathan B. Scott, and Harry C. Woodyard.Collection contains the papers of William L. Russell, general manager, and...
Dates: 1904-1925
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William M.O. Dawson (1853-1916) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1697
Overview

Newspaper clippings, notes, biographies, correspondence, and proclamaiton compiled by Blagg for a study of the life of a Preston County editor, Republican politician, and the state's twelfth governor (1905-1909), and Blagg's unpublished manuscript on Dawson's career.

Dates: 1873-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center