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United States -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Correspondence (photocopies)

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Collection Number: A&M 0420
Overview Photostat negatives of correspondence to Francis H. Pierpont concerning statehood and secession. Also includes a petition of Harrison County, (West) Virginia citizens to Brigadier General Kelly protesting the return and admittance to the county of former members of the Confederate Army (undated); a petition of Gilmer County, (West) Virginia citizens denouncing secession and pledging action to suppress rebellion (1861); and the act by which the Restored Government of Virginia gave permission...
Dates: 1861-1865, 1916; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Letters to President Lincoln

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Collection Number: A&M 1034
Overview Approximately twenty letters sent to President Abraham Lincoln from Francis H. Pierpont, the governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, between 1861 and 1864. Topics include the need for muskets in western Virginia in 1861; restoring the government of Virginia according to the Wheeling Convention after the war; using slaves from Virginia to do manual labor for the Union army; difficulty recruiting soldiers in western Virginia in 1862; the creation of the state of West Virginia; and...
Dates: 1861-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Newspaper Clipping

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Collection Number: A&M 0418
Overview

Fairmont Times (W.Va.) newspaper clipping where Frances Pierpont Pryor, Francis H. Pierpont's granddaughter, is thanking the newspaper for including historical information about Pierpont's life in their articles.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Newspaper Clippings

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Collection Number: A&M 0419
Overview

Photostat copies of newspaper clippings from the Daily Enquirer and Examiner (Richmond, Virginia). Includes the order appointing Henry H. Wells to succeed Francis H. Pierpont as Governor of Virginia, and two editorials about Pierpont (April 6 and 27, 1868). The articles suggest that Pierpont was unpopular in Richmond at this time.

Dates: 1868
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0497
Overview Correspondence, appointment, and notice. Correspondence includes a letter from Gideon D. Camden to Pierpont (1841); a letter from Frances Pierpont Pryor (F.H. Pierpont's granddaughter) to Professor Charles Ambler regarding documents of her grandfathers' which she is sending him and documents she will keep (1952); and a letter from Charles MacCarthy to W.H. Siviter, regarding Pierpont papers used by MacCarthy in writing his Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction...
Dates: 1841-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates: 1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899), Two Autobiographies

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Collection Number: A&M 4171
Overview Two autobiographies written by Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. This booklet includes photocopies of two original autobiographies, which were written in 1883 for Robert Alonzo (or P.W.) Brock (21 pages and accompanying letter) and John McAllister Schofield (5 pages). The booklet also includes typescript transcriptions of both autobiographies, made by...
Dates: 2015
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Deed

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Collection Number: A&M 0526
Overview

Photocopies of correspondence relating to Francis H. Pierpont's law license in Mississippi and Virginia, and an early (1784) Virginia deed to John Pierpont (likely grandfather of Francis).

Dates: 1784-1842; Majority of material found within 1841-1842
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Francis Harrison Pierpont Note regarding Ordinance of Secession

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Collection Number: A&M 0559
Overview Note supposedly written by Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. The note outlines the steps to be taken upon the adoption of the Ordinance of Secession, including the convening of a second convention on June 11 and rules about the number of representatives allowed for each county. It may be a draft of a resolution proposed by the Committee on State and...
Dates: circa 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Frank Hereford (1825-1891) Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 1386
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1874-1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center