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West Virginia - Governors.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

F.B. Voegele, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1088
Scope and Contents

This book contains articles primarily of a historical nature; much of it dealing with the history of Virginia, West Virginia, and the Southern Seaboard. There are a few contemporary articles and obituary notices of several West Virginians.

Dates: 1925-1940

F.B. Voegele, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1102
Scope and Contents

These items include an autograph letter of Governor J.B. Jackson, 1884; and embossed state seal with the autograph signature of Governor Henry M. Mathews, ca. 1877-1861; and a picture of Joseph H. Diss Debar, designer of the W. Va. State seal.

Dates: ca. 1878-1884

Governor Gaston Caperton Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3106
Overview

Routine correspondence from the thirty-first governor of West Virginia, Gaston Caperton, about suggestions for government reorganization and changes in finance.

Dates: 1989-1991

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

Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962), Papers and Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1955
Scope and Contents

Three carbon copies of letters, 1951-1952, by H.D. Hatfield to Everett Dirksen and John L. Lewis, includes carbon typescript copy of a summary of Hatfield's career.

Dates: 1913-1958

Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates: 1913-1958

Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1609
Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal papers, speeches, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a Randolph County prosecuting attorney, mayor of Elkins, judge of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, Democratic politician, and state governor, 1933-1937.Subjects include John T. McGraw's senate contest, 1911; Canadian Reciprocity Agreement, 1911; women suffrage; State Prohibition Amendment, 1911-1912; VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA; Joseph Brown lynch case; New Deal operations and agencies in the...
Dates: 1883-1960

Homer Adams Holt (1898-1975) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1450
Scope and Contents Correspondence, messages, and state papers of West Virginia's twentieth governor, 1937-1941, and manuscript drafts of "West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State (1941)," the Works Project Administration's Federal Writer's Project's work on West Virginia. Also included are assorted speeches and addresses given by Holt, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Holt's successor as Governor of West Virginia, Matthew Neely, and other political figures, and correspondence with governors from...
Dates: 1937-1944

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