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Elections

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph B. Lightburn Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1224
Overview

Correspondence and writings of the mayor of Jane Lew and one-time Republican nominee for Congress, pertaining to fluoridation, United Nations, foreign aid, income tax, socialism, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and Lightburn's conservative interpretation of Americanism.

Dates: 1958-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

J.V. Blair Printed Materials

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0329
Scope and Contents

A collection of printed materials relating to politics. Includes issues of The Commoner, 1902, The Working Democracy, 1900, Mountain Workman, Buckhannon, W. Va., 1897, election broadsides, and facsimile of the first issue of the Maryland Journal and the Baltimore Advertiser, August 20, 1773.

Dates: 1876-1898
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kemble White (1873-1965) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2209
Overview Correspondence and other papers of Kemble White, one-time law partner of A.B. Fleming, specialist in oil and gas law, counsel for the West Virginia subsidiaries of Standard Oil (Hope Natural Gas, South Penn Oil, and Eureka Pipeline), charter member of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, veteran of the Spanish-American War, one-time president of the West Virginia Bar Association; and the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Additional items include: White's notebooks...
Dates: 1898-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ken Hechler Interview Transcript

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1164
Overview Transcription of an oral history interview by Niel M. Johnson of the Harry S. Truman Library with Ken Hechler. Hechler, born 1914 in Roslyn, NY, received A.B., Swarthmore 1935; M.A., Columbia 1936; Ph.D., Columbia 1940 in Political Science which he later taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Marshall Universities. He served as a U. S. Army combat historian in Europe during World War II. Hechler was a research assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was special assistant to President...
Dates: 1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

League of Women Voters, Morgantown-Monongalia Branch, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2777
Overview

Records of the League of Women Voters, Morgantown-Monongalia County, West Virginia. Includes membership lists, minutes, proposals, plans for conventions and environmental projects, and guides to government officials. See the scope and content note for detail.

Dates: ca. 1947-2010
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips, Journal of an Upshur County Resident Regarding the Civil War

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1846
Overview Photocopy of typescript transcription of the manuscript journal kept by Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips of French Creek and Buckhannon, Virginia (West Virginia). It contains commentary on local and family affairs, and on Civil War military activities in the western Virginia and Virginia areas. Other subjects include churches, travel, elections, holiday celebrations, and the 1863 statehood convention in Parkersburg. There are descriptions of and quoted conversations with officers of both the...
Dates: 1861-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marshall County Republican Executive Committee, Record Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1643
Overview

Record book of the Marshall County Republican Executive Committee. Contains lists of candidates, and the number of votes each received. Includes a separation of the districts and precincts.

Dates: 1904-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mason-Jackson Labor Council Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2644
Overview

Extensive financial records, constitutions, bylaws, membership records, minutes to meetings, recruitment programs, and elections material circulated by COPE, the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education. Included are inter-union correspondence on strikes, political lobbying efforts, policy statements, and candidate questionnaires which were sent out by COPE.

Dates: 1949-1977
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958), Politician, Papers

 Collection
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