West Virginia -- Politics and government
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Chapman Revercomb, Politician, Biography
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.
Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) 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.
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Scrapbooks
The two volumes of newspaper clippings cover the years 1913-1916, and 1922-1927 and are concerned with Neely's activities as Congressman and Senator, including his abortive attempt to have Judge A. G. Dayton impeached. There are also two volumes of speeches (clippings from the Congressional Record) for years 1926-1928, and 1931-1932.
Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958) Vest
Vest owned by West Virginia politician Matthew M. Neely around the age of 22 years.
Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920) Papers
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).